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Driving cars, having showers and drifting off to sleep ideas come that have to become images. These are spaces in your loop where you have no way of recording it. Some of my greatest works never make from this chamber of inspiration other find a way, this was one.
Dance of the Infinite
“The mind cannot contain the infinite but it may choose to dance on our tongues.” ~ I.B. Das
Daśa Triśūla, the Spears of Goloka
This is my latest work for the collection ” In search of the Golden Vyūha” . These are works are visual abstraction of scriptural concepts established in Vaiṣṇava Śāstra. The background to this piece is presented in the following two excerpts. As an visual artist who create images I found these passages pose as a challenge to my process pushing my practice […]
Where in the world is the Supreme Personality of GodHead
Saturday Morning 5 minute photoshop remix copyright skirting not for profit culture smash. Still searching . . .
Progression and Conceptual Adjustment
Seva – service, dedication, is the summum bonum of the teachings of the Vaisnava school, the third plane of life where every unit is a dedicating member in an organic whole. In such a normal adjustment, everyone mutually assists one another in their service to the center, the higher recipient, the highest entity. ~ Swami […]
Versions of Reality
Three sages are on a mountain concentrating their consciousness in pursuit of the divine. After some time one person experiences the true nature of their soul and relished the bliss of that realisation. The second person seeing this transformation, and not wishing to be outdone by the first, imitates the first person’s behavior without the […]
Premāstra
Premāstra : The force of divinity that creates an explosion within one’s consciousness when in the association of a saint who is rich in divine love (prema). It is a piercing force like a arrow ( astra ) that steals the mind and one’s very self from the inside out. Common symptoms reveal as major […]
Reality is Searching for itself
“Why did you stay away? Why have you been living away from home for so long? How was it possible for you? How could you bear My separation? You left Me, and you have been passing lives after lives without Me? Still, I know what trouble you took to return to Me. You searched for […]
Blind faith and Image of God
This is an article by a good friend of mine David Sheil ( Devadyuti Das ) whom I spend lots of time with discussing life, art and reality the beautiful. Blind faith and reading the vision (image) of the Supreme Personality (God) The Rules of the Game The rules for the artist and the audience […]
Life Nectar of Immortality
The following passage is the introduction to the Śrī Śrī Prapanna-jīvanāmṛtam, by Swami B.R Sridhar. This is a quintessential work about the Vaisnava practice of “Saranagati” or Divine Surrender in complete humility. I consider this to be one of the most wonderful and concise explanation of Śrī Sāraswat Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava philosophy ever presented. Deep conceptual […]
