Parwatisingari's Weblog

Category: The Great Connect

  • The morning meditation.

    We were in a lecture by the Rudra Veena exponent Ustaad Bahuddin Dagar who was saying that their teaching follows the guru shishya parampara and the students have to wake up such that they start riyaaz at the Brahma Muhuruta. Personally for me it is the most creative time. It also the time when I…

  • Embracing My Muse

    Embracing my muse. There are some figures that I feel compelled to create, there seems a strange  kind of reassurance in it. It was not human, at all, but definite geometric shapes. But when blocked as I worked through it there would be redemption from whatever bothered me.  only when I looked at the work…

  • WEEDS—Messengers from the wilderness.

    WEEDS—Messengers from the wilderness. I was busy telling Sundari to weed the garden, it was then that I saw the tiny violet flowers with deep purple centres; these were the weeds of monsoon. It was so beautiful that I asked Sundari to leave it, she told me, that it would eat into the fertilizer of…

  • Tirtha Yatra – Visiting Sacred Sites.

    The Spirit Of a Place. ಯಾವ ಮೋಹನ ಮುರಳಿ ಕರೆಯಿತು ದೂರ ತೀರಕೆ ನಿನ್ನನುಯಾವ್ ಬೃಂದಾವನವು ಚಾಚಿತು ತನ್ನ ಮಿಂಚಿನ ಕೈಯನು? What enchanting music is it that draws you to distant shores? which entycing land is that beckons you?– a favorite poem of mine Selva, like many people, he had visions he was embarrassed to share  with  others, until the…

  • Vayu- the wind God

    We were ar Mukteshwar, right on top of the hill, from the window where we stayed, we could see the 5 peaks of the Himalayan range. It was beautiful. Suddenly same roaring sounds like the turbulent sea crashing against the rocks, the familiar sound of the Arabian sea. My husbands Guru then told me something…

  • Uplifting Showers

    Uplifting showers. Its pouring quite heavily though not the blanket of torrential rains of my childhood but incessant. The weather is damp and wet outside. Can you imagine the loveliness of being warm snug inside the house when the weather out is cold and damp? Storms and rains literally change the energy in the air…