Storm over the Sea

                                   storm on the sea

Pond

                                                              pond

River

                                                                 River..B&W

Hills and shadow

                                                               Hills..shadow

Morning Sun

The morning Sun! Brightens up our lives! Brings joy! Gives energy to start our routine! 

Kalika

Maa Kali's fierce appearance symbolizes many things. Her dark complexion symbolizes her all-embracing and transcendental nature. Says the Mahanirvana Tantra: "Just as all colors disappear in black, so all names and forms disappear in her". Her nudity is primeval, fundamental, and transparent like Nature — the earth, sea, and sky. Kali is free from the illusory covering, for she is beyond the all maya or "false consciousness." 

Her three eyes represent past, present, and future, the three modes of time an attribute that lies in the very name Kali....(kal means the Time). Kali's garland of  human heads  stands for the fifty letters in the Sanskrit alphabet, symbolizes infinite knowledge.

Her girdle of severed human hands signifies work and liberation from the cycle of karma. Her white teeth show her inner purity, and her red lolling tongue indicates her omnivorous nature — "her indiscriminate enjoyment of all the world's 'flavors'." Her sword is the destroyer of false consciousness and the eight bonds that bind us.

Kali's guises and names are diverse. Shyama, Adya Ma, Tara Ma and Dakshina Kalika, Chamundi are popular forms. Then there is Bhadra Kali, who is gentle, Shyamashana Kali, who lives only in the cremation ground, and so on.

Maa Kali

my digital painting

about Maa Kali

Kalimata or Kalika,  is the fearful and ferocious form of the mother goddess. She assumed the form of a powerful goddess and became popular with the composition of the Devi Mahamaya,  Here she is depicted as having born from the brow of  Durga during one of her battles with the evil forces. As the legend goes, in the battle, Kali was so much involved in the killing spree that she got carried away and began destroying everything in sight. To stop her, Shiva, the lord and her husband, threw himself under her feet. As she stepped on him, shocked by her mistake, Kali stuck out her tongue in astonishment, and put an end to her homicidal rampage. Hence the common image of Kali shows her in her mêlée mood, standing with one foot on Shiva's chest, with her enormous tongue stuck out.

flowers

why do we love flowers ? is it because they are objects that radiate beauty?

silver light

forest

“Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.” 

                                         ―  Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa

curious !

hidden from the glare.....even we observe

reflection!

Expressions !--11

Expressions --10

over to the new...

our time is over.....over to the new..over to the young...fresh and full of life!!!!!!

Waves...

I am the wave...i have no birth.. no death... I form and disintegrate....kissing the golden sand on the beach....i am gentle...i am violent....i am incessant...for ever!!!

Vinayak

        Vakratunda mahaakaaya suryakoti samaprabhaa

     nirvighnam kurumedeva sarvakaaryeshu sarvadaa

Mantra meaning :- Prayers to the supreme Lord Ganesh, whose curved trunk (vakra-tunda) and massive body (maha-kaayaa) shines like a million suns (surya-koti) and showers his blessings on everyone (sama-prabhaa). Oh my lord of lords Ganesh, kindly remove all obstacles (nir-vighnam), always (sarva-) and forever (sarvadaa-) from all my activities and endeavors (sarva-kaaryeshu).

Lord Ganesh is one of the most prominent deities in Hinduism. Ganesh has the unique distinction that his name is always invoked before any other God’s name in any prayer service. Lord Ganesh received this distinction as a blessing from his parents, Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. Lord Ganesa is designated as the chief       (-eesha) of all of Lord Shiva’s ganas (servers) – hence his name, Ganesh.

spring!

spring.... bringing a riot of colours by the side of the lake. the blue water dazzles with the orange and yellowish glow. the clear sky smiles with streaks of clouds!

expressions!-6 -the Mystic

amid the mystic waves of smoke I see the universe hazy, but still I feel its strength, to create and destroy.....I smile for the creatures...living or dead....I wonder what's there in the hollowness of the empty space...I cry for the deprived....for the children of God...not so equal as others! I hate the barbaric attitude of demonic human beings!!!!
Still I smile...since there is hope!!!!!

garden!

"Look here—we shall die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigor in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you."   ----- Swami Vivekanand