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'Paar lag jaana’ or ‘to get across’, over to the other shore, is perhaps our deepest hope and yearning, as we flounder in the waters of life. Lalon Fakir calls out from this space, from these depths of despair and longing, when he says…
Paare loye jaao amoye
Hey aami opaar boshe aachhi
O hey doyamoye!
Take me across
I’m sitting on this side
Oh Compassionate One
Take me across
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This feeling seemed completely embodied in Parvathy when she sang this song on the concluding night of the week-long Rajasthan Kabir Yatra in February 2012.
Parvathy Baul is a Baul singer, practitioner, painter and storyteller from Bengal and has been a disciple of Shashanko Goshai and Sanatan Das Baul. She divides her time between her home in Trivandrum, Kerala and the Baul ashram she has built near Shantiniketan in Bengal. (parvathybaul.com/)
The Rajasthan Kabir Yatra was a travelling festival which toured 7 villages with 13 singers of Bhakti, Sufi and Baul poetry in Feb 2012 (see short movie on the Yatra). The Yatra was organized by Lokayan in Bikaner (www.lokayan.org) in partnership with the Kabir Project, Bangalore.
This is one of a series of uploads for Ajab Shahar, a webspace dedicated to mystic poem and song, created by the Kabir Project team (www.ajabshahar.org ; www.kabirprojec...).
Song Credits:
Ektara, Duggi, Vocals & Dance: Parvathy Baul
Translation: Shabnam Virmani
Video Credits:
Cameras: Aarthi Parthasarathy & Smriti Chanchani
Editing: Piyush Kashyap
Sound: Atirek Pandey
Sub-Titling: Anand Baskaran & Shabnam Virmani
Collection: The Kabir Project
Place: Bikaner, Rajasthan, India
Date of Recording: 29 Feb, 2012