Reverence - A Step Back

Reverence - A Step Back

This painting was inspired by an experience/a vision I had a few months back.
It is also based on these words that came to me several months back.

Will write more about it in a future post. :-)

http://the-journey-inward.blogspot.com/2011/01/step-back.html

Step Back

You are in a room ... filled with pleasure, pain, conditioning, evaluation, understanding, solutions, techniques, love, knowledge, noise, silence, highs, lows, giving, taking.
You know all there is to know, you see all there is to see, there is expansion happening ... you are increasing your capacity and moving to the edge of the room... you hit the wall, you are feeling suffocated... the answers are all there... out there, one of those will work, one of those will open the lock... give the click... break this cycle... you are being pushed against the wall... nothing helping... no more room... you need a solution quick before you are squeezed out... help.. can't breathe... can't...
then ...
plop...
you did not know this wall was not solid...
you stepped one step back instead of pushing forward any more...
one step back...
plop
you fall into this huge empty space...
total silence...
total stillness...
the wall...
the wall is not a wall... it's a two way mirror...
now you see all of it...
the pleasure, pain, conditioning, evaluation, understanding, solutions, techniques, love, knowledge, noise, silence, highs, lows, giving, taking...
It is all happening in the silence... you can see it... all of it... the solution... it does not matter...
you have hands that can go through the mirror... pick what you want... bring it back to the stillness and it dissolves... it is gone... now pick the next...

Just one step back is this room...
one step back can take you into total stillness...
move till you can move no more...
search till you can search no more...
look till you can look no more...
fight till you can fight no more...
then take one more step... back...
you are there...
everyone has this room...
however all of us stay in the crowded room looking for a solution...
trying to push forward...
struggling to reach a goal...
stop...
now step back...

The solution is just one step back in the stillness...

~Shweta

Please visit my website:
http://www.creationsfromstillness.com/paintings/reverence-a-step-back

creating...sustaining...dissolving

creating...sustaining...dissolving

My series of 3 paintings is based on this....
"Creating"... "Sustaining"... "Dissolving".
The first one is "creating"... In India during Navaratri, in Bengal, they celebrate "Durga Puja".
The first part is "creating" an idol...
The second part is "sustaining" the goddess.... by worship and celebrations...
The third part is "dissolving"... immersion of the idol.




The creating... sustaining... dissolving is a pattern that shows up every min of our life... and when I decided I wanted to paint this pattern, this idea came to mind. Thanks to Ma's blessings it did manifest nicely.

Dissolving

Dissolving~by Shweta Mitra

"Dissolving"
This is the third part of a series of three...
The first one was "creating"... an idol of Ma Durga...
The second part was "sustaining" the goddess.... by worship and celebrations...
This is the third... "dissolving"... immersion of the idol.

Sustaining

Sustaining

This is the second part of a series of three...
The first one was "creating"... an idol of Ma Durga...
http://the-journey-inward.blogspot.com/2011/06/creating.html

This second part is "sustaining" the goddess.... by worship and celebrations...

Happy Durga Puja/Navaratri All!!!

Please check my art website:

http://www.creationsfromstillness.com/paintings/sustaining

Lotus Feet

This one is for all my gurus, on guru purnima. 

_/\_

Lotus Feet

Mere Gurudev - Krishna Das

Creating

Creating

This is the first part of a series of three...

The first one is "creating"... In India during Navaratri, in Bengal, they celebrate "Durga Puja".
The first part is "creating" an idol...
The second part is "sustaining" the goddess.... by worship and celebrations...
The third part is "dissolving"... immersion of the idol.
My series of 3 paintings is based on this....
"Creating"... "Sustaining"... "Dissolving".

Please check my art website:
http://www.creationsfromstillness.com/paintings/creating

Daddy's Little Girl

Daddy's Little Girl

In most of my painting, I try to capture the "human" aspect of the scene I am trying to depict.

In this one I tried to capture the "Oh Daddy, I love you. please don't be sad" looks in a daughter's eyes... the memories of childhood and playing with  daddy, but not sure how to react when she sees her strong daddy sad. Her father is trying his best not to cry... he has that "losing my baby" looks and yet so happy to watch his angel grow up into a beautiful lady.

Daddy's Little Girl - the dress

Living Knowing Wholeness

Living Knowing Wholeness ~ Shweta Mitra

This is my first attempt at painting a scenery.  It took a while to get the techniques, but was a lovely experience. 

The painting has a lot of symbolism in it, I will write more about it soon. :)

Formless Forming

Formless Forming

Formless Forming (Closeup)

This is a painting of Ardhanarishvara.  It is half Shiva, the formless divine, and half Parvati, the goddess, the manifest, the form (ing). It also represents the stillness and movement aspect present in all of us at every moment. 

The painting also symbolizes the changes we experience in out spiritual journey. The mountains are solid ice, as we being our spiritual journey, we are like this solid piece of ice, we slowly melt into water which is not as rigid, more fluid, more flowing, and later we become akasha, the sky, completely unbound.

Radiance

Radiance ~by Shweta Mitra

Step Back

You are in a room ... filled with pleasure, pain, conditioning, evaluation, understanding, solutions, techniques, love, knowledge, noise, silence, highs, lows, giving, taking.
You know all there is to know, you see all there is to see, there is expansion happening ... you are increasing your capacity and moving to the edge of the room... you hit the wall, you are feeling suffocated... the answers are all there... out there, one of those will work, one of those will open the lock... give the click... break this cycle... you are being pushed against the wall... nothing helping... no more room... you need a solution quick before you are squeezed out... help.. can't breathe... can't...
then ...
plop...
you did not know this wall was not solid...
you stepped one step back instead of pushing forward any more...
one step back...
plop
you fall into this huge empty space...
total silence...
total stillness...
the wall...
the wall is not a wall... it's a two way mirror...
now you see all of it...
the pleasure, pain, conditioning, evaluation, understanding, solutions, techniques, love, knowledge, noise, silence, highs, lows, giving, taking...
It is all happening in the silence... you can see it... all of it... the solution... it does not matter...
you have hands that can go through the mirror... pick what you want... bring it back to the stillness and it dissolves... it is gone... now pick the next...

Just one step back is this room...
one step back can take you into total stillness...
move till you can move no more...
search till you can search no more...
look till you can look no more...
fight till you can fight no more...
then take one more step... back...
you are there...
everyone has this room...
however all of us stay in the crowded room looking for a solution...
trying to push forward...
struggling to reach a goal...
stop...
now step back...

The solution is just one step back in the stillness...

~Shweta

Loving...

I send love to you and you and you...

Wonder if I can send love to one who is not ready...

Wonder if I can heal with this loving...

Wonder...
...
..
.

I don't own this loving...

This love is not mine to give away...

I am but a mere conduit though which it flows.

This loving does not discriminate...

This loving is divine...

This loving just loves.

This loving just is.

♥

~Shweta Mitra

A Bride ~ Longing




"Longing" ~ Painting by Shweta Mitra

 Ah Jaa Tenu Akhiyan Udeek Diyan ~  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Original Translations:

00:16 - Without you my heart will collapse,
00:28 - What is the point of my living(without you)?
00:37 - in my (every) pore, in my (every) vein, the beat of your remembrance is playing.
00:45 - come! My eyes are yearning, My heart is shouting out to you.
00:54 - Come O' foreign one, I plead for the sake of Love.
00:58 - (chorus) At last come! My eyes long for you, O' Beloved, My eyes long for you.
01:24 - My dear, Since you have been upset with me, even the crows have forgotten their speech
01:37 - (chorus) At last come! My eyes long for you, O' Beloved, My eyes long for you.
02:01 - I have grown tired of looking at the many trails, I have grown weary staying alone,
02:17 - I count every single heartbeat I spend,
02:25 - Come O' foreign one, I plead for the sake of Love.
02:29 - (chorus) At last come! My eyes long for you, O' Beloved, My eyes long for you.
03:14 - O wilful one, don not be neglecting, every piece of mine is coming to you with love.
03:25 - swiftly come dear! My eyes long for you
03:53 - countless times I have climbed the terrace and I have come down Countless times.
04:07 - neither peace at my heart or patients in my eyes, Nor do I forget the lovely appearance.
04:17 - This love anguishes me and I call to you crying out "finally come Beloved, Don't go Beloved, You win and I lose!"
04:30 - swiftly come dear! My eyes long for you
Raag and duo
06:40 - swiftly come dear! My eyes long for you#
06:51 - when the outside wind flows, My heart starts beating. I come looking  whenever the crow speaks*2.
07:07 - Shall I inform you of how this separation is killing me? Come O' distant one, For the sake of Love!
07:20 - At last come! My eyes long for you, O' Beloved, My eyes long for you.





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