ARADHNA - Asato Ma (Official Music Video)

Lead me from untruth to truth
Lead me from darkness to light
Lead me from the final death to fullness in immortality
Without you I am incomplete
Grant me the gift of seeing you

- words adapted from a Gujarati Indian prayer, which is a vernacular version of the more ancient vedic Sanskrit prayer, "Asato ma sad gamaya," from the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, section 1.iii.28.

Asato Ma is an ancient prayer from India. Aradhna used the Gujarati words to compose this song and made a refrain from the names of Jesus as spoken in different cultures; Isu, his name in Gujarat, India. Isa Alaiya Salam (Jesus may peace be upon Him) from Arabic and Urdu, Yeshua in Hebrew, Yeshu in Hindi, and as the western world knows him, Jesus. This is a song for peace.

We think of the history of the world and all the suffering that has come about because of religious differences and we use these different names as a statement and invitation for all peoples to say this prayer with India and with us.

"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
--Isa Alaiya Saalam

"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For full lyric translations go to http://aradhnamusic.com/discography/namaste-sate/lyrics-namaste-sate/

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[saralsth]

@sksinha14 I am not sure about that. But I do know that his parents were missionaries in Gorkha, a village in Nepal.

[sksinha14]

@saralsth somewhere i read he was born in KTM..

[joshformanunited]

I love you, Aradhna, and I love the warm, truthful, heartfelt music you make.

Cheers,

[saralsth]

@jlemaster1157 Nope. These are not from KTM. From Indian city of Vanarasi I think.

[hepburngal]

Beautiful.



[johnjan83]

These are wonderful. -from your fan club in Bangladesh -we enjoyed having Mom & Dad with us.

[jlemaster1157]

A very beautiful film, were the market scenes from Kathmandu?

[saralsth]

Yay, another Aradhna video!