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“Jo Tu Racho” – a North Indian devotional song in Hindi, taught by Maestro Aashish Khan. Video taken on April 3, 2009 during a concert at the California Institute of the Arts with Sheela Bringi and PremaSoul (Sheela Bringi + Clinton Patterson).

harp + voice – Sheela Bringi

trumpet + voice – Clinton Patterson

drums – Colin Woodford

film + editing by Joshua Golden,

produced by PremaSoul & Joshua Golden.

translation (by Sreedevi Bringi):

Oh, what you have manifested, Lord Krishna.

Your cosmic play happens in both the immanent and transcendental worlds.

You who are a gift to devotees who serve.

Without you, no one can even breathe.

“Pathje Amay” – a North Indian light classical song in Bengali. Video taken on April 3, 2009 during a concert at the California Institute of the Arts with Sheela Bringi and PremaSoul (Sheela Bringi + Clinton Patterson). In Raga Mishra Kafi. Bengali & English lyrics by B.P. Kriti.

harp + voice – Sheela Bringi

trumpet + voice – Clinton Patterson

tabla – Javad Butah

film + editing by Joshua Golden,

produced by PremaSoul & Joshua Golden.

translation:

The way informs me not

where I intent do go

My mind is limitless

And the path is without end.

The path itself shows me the way

I can fall asleep by the wayside.

And waking up anew

I can follow the track,

Wherever it leads me.

I can neither get a path after my heart

nor a heart that matches my path

No wonder my journey is not begun.

I ask the way where to go

No matter whether I arrive or don’t

Content with whatever

the path has to offer me.