- void within and viod without, like an empty vessel in the sky; fullness within and fullness without, like a vessel full of water immersed in the ocean.
Yoga Sutra
24x28 Inches
Pen and Ink on Arches paper
2013
ūrdhva-mūlam adhaḥ-śhākham aśhvatthaṁ prāhur avyayam
chhandānsi yasya parṇāni yas taṁ veda sa veda-vit”
Bhagwath Gita speaks of an eternal aśhvatth tree with its roots above and branches below. Its leaves are the Vedic hymns, and one who knows the secret of this tree is the knower of the supreme knowledge or knowledge of transcendence.
24x27 Inches
Pen and ink, Watercolor and Acrylic on Arches paper
2009
The path of love is the path of self-realisation. To love the other is to love oneself. In this river the deeper you dive the better you swim, without hurdles.
24x27 inches
Pen and ink on Arches paper
2012
The spirit of The Golden Womb- ‘Hiranyagarbha’, an icon of fertility is intrinsic to my artistic expressions. ‘The Golden Womb’ series expresses the constant state of positive procreation, recycling of energies that function throughout the universe. Literally understood by me as Golden Womb, that, which is self-pervading, engulfs every single element and being. I believe that all creation has emerged out of the feminine aspect of sun which is constantly celeberating through creation, sustenance and destruction.
48x112Inches
Pen and ink and Watercolour on Arches Paper
2002
I believe everything is living and throbbing with life. I connect with these through conversations. Tea and tea cups being merely symbolic of these conversations.
22x10.5 Inches
Pen and ink on Arches paper
2009
We see is what we want to see.
"My darling child!" she cried, folding the little girl in her arms and covering her face with kisses. "Where in the world did you come from?"
"From the Land of Oz," said Dorothy gravely. "And here is Toto, too. And oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!"-L. Frank Baum
25x30 inches
Pen and ink on Arches paper
2010
Everything seems to be in a constant state of creativity yet very static and at peace with itself. Only we sometimes lose the sensitivity to capture the constant rhythm of this eternal being or its state of constant celebration.
11.5x10 Inches
Pen and ink on Arches paper
2005
Ratri are you quiet,
night are you the silence
when we cuddle into your womb
visiting temporary death
only to be bathed by the golden morning rays
27x32 Inches
Pen and ink, Watercolour and acrylic on Arches Paper
1998
Without beginning or ending,
Your original wisdom has been
Shining forever, like the sun.
To know whether or not this is true,
Look inside your own mind.
- Padmasambhava (eight century)
24x27"
Arches paper
2013
Handmade Paper
2004
. I have attempted to grasp the mystical laws of nature and their interpretations in different cultures and sub-cultures of the world. It is during this research that I stumbled upon Ouroboros, a mythical, coiled self-sustaining serpent, swallowing its own tail and recreating itself.
5.8x8.3"
Handmade Paper
2002
According to my understanding the Golden Womb' or ‘Hiranya Garbha' is the first eternal womb. It bears all the suns, moons and universes from which the five elements- earth, water, fire, air and ether emerge. According to the Hindu mythology, the Universal Self is the ultimate being, as all bodies are an outer garb-which is neither male nor female, neither good or bad, nor gold or silver; the moment it takes the form, it is Maya or illusion or the feminine aspect of the Universal Self. I personally believe that if all creation has emerged out of that universal womb; then the ultimate has to have the feminine qualities of procreation.
54x64 Inches
Pen and ink on Arches paper
2014
My paperwork titled "Matsyandranatha"
are based on the birth, life, and concepts of Matsyanandranatha. He was considered a great yogi, who propagated the Yogini cult and the concept of feminine form as the embodiment of unified energies which keeps on expanding and is busy creating and recycling the Universe. In some scriptures, he is also considered as an incarnation of Mahadeva Shiva.
34.5x60 Inches
Tea stains with ink and watercolor on Arches paper
2015
Prakriti is concentrated in the ultimate being, which is an amalgamation of man and woman, but creation is the celebration of the feminine aspect of that Being. My works are a contemplation of that state or that Being. In my works
11x9 inches
ink on arches paper
2009