In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness….
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Stillness and me
I was asking myself why Stillness. May be the agitated souls of artists and writers crave for this respite. We have the stillness in cemeteries. We have stillness before the tempests. We have the stillness of deep seas. I find all of them unsettling. Also, stillness simply means you don’t move. And I am an…
Stillness and me
I go deep in Sinking in The endless fault line Digging in Brittle nerve ends Ploughing in Pointed Ragged edges Deeper still Shuttering my eyes Looking Bellowing Beneath the river of salt Stars, sparkles Glimmerings of meaning Bathing Plunging Diving in Piercing knowingness Deeper still Breathing Slowly Breathing, Breathing Murmuring Thought-lessness Droplets of quiet…
Stillness and me
‘Stillness to me is the lack of a wandering, deviating, oscillating, noisy and chaotic mind. The word makes me picture the smooth surface of a lake, when undisturbed, or the surface of the lake between two ripples. It is that smooth surface which shows you the ripples, and the same smooth surface which makes you…
Love it when no one fills it
Why can’t there be stillness if you can do it? Why party all day? Everyone’s gone, and finally, Stillness! It’s here! Then there’s a crash and a hiss As my sister tames her cat, Shut the TV and stop it Sis! I hiss! Then there’s a final stillness, And I love it when no one…
It’ll be beautiful when it grows
Months ago I dug up the ground, but underneath there was nothing to be found. With a little effort I inserted a tiny seed, but in my mind it was all a little weed. Watered with care, every single day. “It’ll be beautiful when it grows”, everyone seemed to say, weeks and weeks it seemed…
Have you ever felt that eerie silence
Have you ever felt that eerie silence when you have nothing to do, nothing to commence, at the break of dawn, when the earth slows down and relaxes itself; every city, every town; When you sit down and listen, the world is so dull, yet seems to glisten; the tiny chirp of a sparrow far…
The mind is stunned into stillness
At the temple, eyes are awash with the red of kumkum and flowers. Ears reverberate with the echoes of bells, conches and mantras. Fragrance of sandal and tulsi leaves infuse the air. Hearts pour out to the glistening stone, heads bowed in awe, and in the shadowy lights cast by fire, man and stone, the…
What do you see when you look at a piece of wood?
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
If I were a river…
No other creature is gifted with imagination like human beings. It is an indicator of your nature and potential. We make and break our own imaginary worlds. Use this power to realize that we are not separate but a part of nature. Share your communion with nature, how the self is connected to nature. Vikram Bhaskar imagines a river ecosystem…
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