Melting Heart

Melting Heart ~ Shweta Mitra (02/20/12)

This painting came to me as a vision.

A friend commented on the painting:

As I see the painting, my heart sings the song ...
"Light my soul with thy holy flame.
let my darkness my sadness melt into light ... "
[Aguner poroshmoni chhoao pran-e]

The song fits the painting so beautifully.
It is a Bengali song by Rabindranath Tagore...

English translations to the lyrics go like this:
(http://sacred-songs.blogspot.com/2007/06/in-world-of-bliss.html)

Touch my heart with your fire
So that this life
burns as a glorious offering.


Let this body
Be like a lamp among the heavens
And every song
Light up in glowing gesture.


In the heart of darkness
I shall feel your touch
Through the nights
As you light the stars
One after another.


No darkness shall
Veil this vision -
I shall find wondrous lights
Wherever I gaze.
And my tears
Will find a blazing fervor
As they reach up for the skies.

~Rabindranath Tagore

Literary Journal - Scythe

Please check my art and poetry published in this issue of the literary journal, Scythe: http://scytheliteraryjournal.com/issue-vii.php

Click on the featured artist and scroll down and click on the paintings to view some of my art and poetry.

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