Time is Realisation’s best friend
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 […]
The Embrace
Karma is embraced as love by Bhakti
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 […]
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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 – , […]
Keep it sweet
Don’t do it bigger than what is beautiful.
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. […]
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 […]