Come on -O sailor, light is there...

Life-a happy laughter of the soul

only moon is the witness

Only the moon is the witness of this secret sailing to the rendezvous

colour of being together

The meaning of togetherness is to become one - getting lost into an
one-a colourful one.

A neighbour of hospitals

The address of this tree is Loudon Street, Central Calcutta. The tree
is facing two hospitals-Belle Vue and Priyamvada Birla Aravind Eye
Hospital.
The snap is taken from the fourth floor of the Eye Hospital Cabin. But
it was from behind a glass wall which perhaps impaired the vividness
of the image. The photo was taken by my daughter.

Far from the maddening crowd

Welcome

Welcome

moonlight

Hshh!

Touch of the Real

urge to stick to life

Face

It's the face of innocent nature-always smiling...

water-for wildlife only

abandoned, alone and unworshipped

Frank

from within a cave

Back to my hidden night again

painted sun

The Sun of all my thoughts and ideas. Am I now appearing to be inclined to think
of my exit from this life? No-perhaps I want to dip down into myself with this loving light of the Sun in order to get illumined there in that darkness.

Parting Love

"The Light now distant shall grow native here.."
--Savitri
We shall have to born again to fulfil the promise of the Sun made to the Earth.

deep within the heart

The abode of soul is within us -deep through the region of heart.

Dream of nature

Nature also dreams. The flowers, rivers, hills etc have come out of her dreams. But in dream state before manifestation they are different from reality. The image is a dream of nature through a plant.

Urge of colour

Why not colours don't have urges of their own? The colours do not have urges like other animals including human beings. The Sun knows it only of it. So in nature nothing is created that is unmatchingly coloured. Here the colours want to be flowers and my mind is informed of the way of the form they like to take.

Conviction

Conviction of something is only possible when one is aware of the presence of the truth within. One's mental idea or preference can not create a conviction. This Sunflower is convinced of the presence of the Sun.

Impression of Ranchi

I had to leave Ranchi in my childhood. Now when the days I'll traverse are surely much less than the time since I left Ranchi-memories keep coming as impressions of forests like this above image.They are very loving images. Actually I keep only impressions -not memories.

Towards Light

Pointing towards the light. Knowinly or unknowingly we are heading for light-not only physical but also spiritual. It is the light in our cells that directs us to there where lies its source.

Unreachable by thoughts

Thoughts like these birds hover around in the space of mind in vain as
the inmost being is not reachable by thoughts. It is beyond the reach
of words but the thoughts and their words get luminous when they are
near it.

Harmony

"A divine harmony shall be earth's law,
Beauty and Joy remould her way to live."

--Savitri

Happy September

The days of rains are over in West Bengal. It's time in between
Monsoon season and winter. It's Bengal's own way to express happiness.
This is peculiar to Bengal. The mind fails to get involved in anything
and yearns for something spreading like the white and scattered clouds
in the sky.
The transparent air carries the fragrance of the flower-we call -'shefali'.
This moment is captured by my daughter as she sees from the backyard
of our house.

Surprised

"Surprised with joy and sweetness yearning hearts..."

-Savitri

a lyric

These flowers are waxed quite lyrical over the new way I bring from my
idea to put them on.

Intuition

Intuition is "A power of revelatory truth-seeing, a power of
inspiration or truth-hearing, a power of truth-touch or immediate
seizing of significance..."
-----Sri Aurobindo
"Intuition is always an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light..."
-----Sri Aurobindo

Divine light

The Divine always responses to our aspiration. His light is always
there even in utter dark ignorance of this earth-nature.

Peace

Come here and be immersed in peace. In the words of Sri Aurobindo-
'There was no step of breathing men, no sound,
Only the living nearness of the soul...'
You will find nothing exists in this universe except a vast infinite sense of peace. Do you exist? Yes and also no. Your realisation is your self and there can be nothing else. Is it your own realisation or someone's where you have been erased to the last? Do not ask anything-go on ...

Alone

He is alone but not lonely. To be alone you must be stripped off everything you have. Then stand apart not to be a bystander but to muse with the essence of your existence like this tree.

Bleeding leaves

The leaves are seen bleeding as a branch of the tree they belong to has been cut. If you are able to be one with the vegetative nature -you will see that they also feel pain like you. Be a musician to create a music with the pain, affliction and also love of the vegetative nature.

A prayer

This is the time when the Earth offers her prayer to the Heaven for her suffering children.

Drunk

The moon has filled the cup of the night. Come out in this moon-lit night here and get drunk like this night.

Purity

This is purity of innocence. This is the essence of soul and without this we are far from the Divine. No religion can be of any help for getting near to the God without this.

Here lives a fairy

This is an image of forest. I love forest like many others of this world where the forestland is gradually decreasing. Civilisation has many extremely bad side effects and one of them is industrialisation. Modern and civilised man is more happy to live in a city than to live in a forest.
Man is a creating (and also creative) animal-but at the same time selfishly destroying. A Rembrandt or an Einstein has not contributed to the cause of the Earth or Nature. He is sustained by nature and for his comforts he uses her all conceivable potentialities. But man has not on his own given anything to this earth-at least that much an insect needs to live on.
But there is a personal truth behind this image. A fairy very much afraid of her diminutive forest habitat requested me to create one for her. So I dedicate this creation to that fairy.

Revelation

I do not know how the word 'Revelation' can be expressed with words. Perhaps poets can. But from my own experience I am more comfortable to express what I feel with this above photo to make a sense of the caption.