Why do I photograph? As a practice I find a way back to this question often. Its a formula to bring a change in attitude towards the medium. It enables me to work from a deeper center, with a clearer perception of ‘I am all this’. Whether it’s a conceptual series or an ordinary happening photography is another activity in which I explore the regions of the mind. In Vedanta, it is taught that inner-vision and elevated action are the two processes through which an individual realizes his inner essential nature. As I walk camera in hand I recognize the multiplicity of the one source presenting itself as a cosmic dance. Photography is a moving meditation illumined by that dance kindling the spark of creative spontaneity.
Kato, 2020.
Ayasham, 2018.
A Rainy Day, 2019. Swamji teaches that the secret of detachment lies in turning away from the confines of one’s own personal, egoistic vision of life, and entering into an atmosphere of universal unity and freedom. How most of us live only to see our egoistic desires and expectations fulfilled. When adverse conditions arise, frustration in the mind develops, and when conditions are prosperous mind is rocked with elation. The very predicament of existing within the confines of the ego is like living in a prison cell. The objects of the world which seem to be the basis of joy to the egoic vision are really illusion. Rising above the ego is not a threat but a secret to real harmony on the path. To be as the sky unaffected by the clouds by maintaining balance mind in all conditions, whether bitter or sweet.
