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Bandhu

June 17, 2015

Time is Realisation’s best friend

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Cintamani – descent of the sacred reality

May 23, 2015

Cintamani – descent of the sacred reality

This work, Cintamani – descent of the sacred reality, is a study for large scale installation works. These installations seek to transform a space with simple shapes that utilise ascending and descending forces to create a discussion of humanity’s place within the cosmos and our relationship with the sublime reality […]

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The Embrace

May 21, 2015

Karma is embraced as love by Bhakti

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Seven Up

November 25, 2014

Seven Up

    Once in Vrindavan My spiritual master was drinking soft drink and joking with his devotees. Counting his fingers Like you do when you chant the Gayatri Mantra. “Maha Jana Tapa Satya, Seven up” We all laughed as he was referring to going beyond the upper planetary systems of […]

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Krishna Hey!

November 24, 2014

Krishna Hey!

    matta-simha-praya prabhu karila gamana premavese yaya kari’ nama-sankirtana Almost like a mad lion, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu went on His tour filled with ecstatic love and performing sankirtana, chanting Krishna’s names as follows. The Lord chanted: Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! he Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! Krishna! […]

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Kaboom Krishna

October 5, 2014

Kaboom Krishna

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Saraswatī Ṭhākur once instructed a disciple at the time of initiation into the Hare Krishna mantra that Krishna should be allowed to land in our hearts, just as an army is landed by the navy. An army is carried by a ship, and when they have landed, the […]

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Reality the Beautiful

August 24, 2014

Reality the Beautiful

rādhā kṛṣṇa-praṇaya-vikṛtir hlādinī śaktir asmād ekātmānāv api bhuvi purā deha-bhedaṁ gatau tau caitanyākhyaṁ prakaṭam adhunā tad-dvayaṁ caikyam āptaṁ rādhā-bhāva-dyuti-suvalitaṁ naumi kṛṣṇa-svarūpam Sometimes Rādhā and Krishna are combined; sometimes They are separate. They are separate in Dvāpara-yuga, and in Kali-yuga they are combined as Śrī Krishna Chaitanya Mahāprabhu. Both are eternal expressions […]

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The One

August 6, 2014

The One

  yo māḿ paśyati sarvatra sarvaḿ ca mayi paśyati tasyāhaḿ na praṇaśyāmi sa ca me na praṇaśyati   For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me. – Śrīmad Bhagavad gītā 6.30    

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Beauty for Love’s Sake

August 1, 2014

Beauty for Love’s Sake

  apāraṁ kasyāpi praṇayi-jana-vṛndasya kutukī rasa-stomaṁ hṛtvā madhuram upabhoktuṁ kam api yaḥ rucaṁ svām āvavre dyutim iha tadīyāṁ prakaṭayan sa devaś caitanyākṛtir atitarāṁ naḥ kṛpayatu “Lord Kṛṣṇa desired to taste the limitless nectarean mellows of the love possessed by one of His multitude of loving damsels – Śrīmatī Rādhārānī – , […]

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Keep it sweet

July 29, 2014

Don’t do it bigger than what is beautiful.

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Bhaktastakham

July 29, 2014

Bhaktastakham

“The holy Devotees of Krishna cleanse the mirror of the heart and forever extinguish the fire of material suffering, that great conflagration in the forest of birth and death. As the evening lotus blooms in the moon’s cooling rays, the heart begins to blossom in the nectar of their association. […]

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Vipralamba Forever

July 28, 2014

Vipralamba Forever

  sunyayate maha-goshtham girindro ’jagarayatevyaghra-tundayate kundam jivatu-rahitasya me ~ Raghunath Das Goswami  “In the absence of my Gurudev, Govardhan Hill, the representation of Kṛṣṇa Himself, seems to me just like a big python coming to devour me. And Rādhā Kuṇḍa, the holiest place of divinity of the Gauḍīya sampradāya, seems like […]

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