Namaha - Stories from the land of Gods & Goddesses, Finally OUT!!!

Hi Everyone, 

Finally Earth magic manifests, the New Book "NAMAHA - Stories from the land of Gods & Goddesses" is Finally OUT!!!

Ten years of toil and grace of the universe finally being put back into the currents of the world.

Here's the Amazon Link for India. 

https://www.amazon.in/Namaha-Stories-Land-Gods-Goddesses/dp/9388810392/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=namaha&qid=1565254760&s=gateway&sr=8-1

International Link

https://www.amazon.com/Namaha-Stories-Land-Gods-Goddesses/dp/9388810392/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=namaha&qid=1565254760&s=gateway&sr=8-1

All of you have been a part of the journey, Thank you for your Love & Support.

Abhi

New Book Comes Out !!!

New book is finally is here !!! (Announcement is literally next week)

A few days from now, i would finally be announcing my next book. (feels unbelievable)
It's taken about ten years for this one, long passage of time, which has shaped me in ways best expressed through humility.
Around the time of my last graphic novel, Krishna-a journey within, I started to create paintings professionally, this was 2007-10, and then slowly that side evolved.
One of the biggest motivations which led to pursue it was that it allowed me to expand my understanding of various subject matter and do my research, dive into ancient texts, lost civilizations cultural design, science and weave innate realizations, dreams, visions and observations of life, into a strange mix of my process.
Few years passed and eventually, I longed to summarize all that into a book form. It took various manifestations, some sounded like research papers and some independent essays and then one day i just let go of the desire to make anything out of it.
I simply wrote stories for the sake of finding everyday solace  and painted with no damn given to one's own goals. We over emphasize these things, and way too often. I started to privilege the "experience" of connecting with whatever my imagination and efforts were summoning and tune oneself to accept that it was enough...and it was.
Then it all came together, stories which imbued years of research started to trickle in, a flow was established and i jumped even deeper.
This book is a handful of that river's water. We have plans for about 3-5 books and this this will be the first of it, the next one's will hopefully follow if the market responds to this one (people don't buy books have been a constant line thrown at me) so against all hopes i'm hoping that you'll give this a shot.
What and how this book came to be is another story, but it'll be here in a few days and i'm so humbled.
love & Light
Abhi

Vriksha-Dootam- A message from the trees.

In NEW DELHI with "Vriksha-Dootam : a message from the trees" LIVE DRAWING this story, 

starting 8th - 20th July.11 am to 7 pm (Mondays Closed)

14th July, Saturday ( storytelling session/quick draw) evening ( with the finished painting)

Address : Ojas Art @ 1AQ (Opp. Qutab Minar) Mehrauli, New Delhi 
(011) 2664 4145, 85100 44145

Look forward to seeing you, may even make a little drawing for you:)
with Team Ojas Art Anubhav R Nath Abhishek Singh

The Weaver - Part-04 - "Adaari"

"The one who frees, is often not the one who lives to enjoy the freedom."

Saranyu was looking outside her small window, at the solemn bowl which never ran out of water for birds tormented by the heat wave. -
As the birds pressed their beaks into the silence of the water, ripples echoed a distant thought.

When the prisoners of war the "vihagaas- the birds" were rescued by the valiant forest guardians, most of them got infected by the light of the new sun. -
The forest beings which lived under the ocean wasn't used to this new bright thing. -
The sun had sent its people to conquer all on earth.

"Free the cages
Let the birds be out."

The water of the earth had dried and it's surface charred by the people of the new sun.
So the birds took to the skies and remained there until the trees were born.

Saranyu looked at the bowl of water, she remembered her own brave daughter who had given her life to break free the birds from those uranium traps.

Kori : how old was she when she fought the Great War ?
Saranyu : your age.

That's why dreams don't appear in the light, they come in the night.

It's the way of the old earth.
Simply closing ones eyes is not enough, you must remember those who gave their lives, the pure hearts, the dreams they left behind are the ones you want to lead.


(To be continued)

Story: Abhi

Weaver - Part 03- The forest herbs

The Weaver" Episode-3

"Your pain defines who you are but don't let it hold power over you."
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So when did you stop sleeping ? Was it after the great forest fire ?

Kori was still startled by the black star trails which swirled around Saranyu.

Saranyu : it was...but I was too burnt, the fire had pierced my hoofs, its flaming arrows had cut through my tendons but I preserved and saved all the children, I was drained, and had to seek help.

Kori: where did you look?

Saranyu: He made medicines from the forest herbs, a night before he had collected most medicinal plants, but for his own people who had set fire to the forest.
He offered it to me though, enduring his own festering wounds, a strong heart, humans can be so different, some who burn and some who heal.

Kori : did you take it ?

Saranyu : .....

Kori : ...Your burns were excruciating ?

Saranyu: I remembered the forest echoing something in my heart.
That voice and the resolve in it was medicinal...

"Your pain defines who you are but don't let it hold power over you."

The forest even though incinerated took away my agony, since then I haven't slept, neither do I get the drift to sleep, I watch all scattered dreams, hoping that the forest might come back through one of them, that it may want to live again.

I watch over that hope Kori.

Story : Abhi

"The Weaver" Part -02

"The Weaver" Episode - 02 https://www.instagram.com/abhiart/


Beyond the dream world, where dark light tints the distant red stars is the realm of "Susupti"- Deep sleep.

That is where the mind goes, leaving the physical body.

This is where the dreams emanate from.
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Some congregate to form the "Dream state" some move more freely.


Kori: Hard to recollect anything from this vagrant state.
It's impossible to track the deep-sleep realms unlike the "swapn" night self and "jagrat" day self. ?


Saranyu: Dreams are not looking for the minds.
You must know child...the mind is looking for dreams. -
Once it finds it.
It traps it.
Puts on reins of reason.
Locks it down with borders of logic.


It takes immense effort to free the dreams from the clasp of the mind.


And when you free the dreams you change too.
They transform you.
So much so that the order in the walking world looks irrational and meaningless.


Dreams can do that you see...


They make you love a different world, then the one you presently inhabit.


That can be dangerous...


Are you sure you want to know about them Kori ?


The pot whistled and the top opened letting something out which resembled little bugs ?


Trail-Stars.

Wide eyed Kori gasped and her breath became jaded with surprise.

...(to be continued)

Story : Abhi - https://www.instagram.com/abhiart/
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"The Weaver" Part-01

"The Weaver"
Episode 01
https://www.instagram.com/abhiart/

Why would she give a names to anonymous beings she met in her dreams,
or 
why the folks she saw never had any mouths ? 

Yet they communicated with something far profound then what mere words could say.


Often Kori, the daughter of the boar king would come to Mother Saranyu for council on her dreams. 
Which was odd, because Ma Saranyu never slept, she was nindramukta, liberated of sleep.

How can one who does not sleep know about dreams ?


It baffled her, what did she know about dreams which no one else did?
Did dreams live anywhere else too other then the sleep ?
Were sleep and dreaming even related ? 

Most folks who slept had nightmares not dreams.


perhaps it was kori's interest in the old speech. -

When we shed everything we know, how would the world seem then ?


Saranyu : you know what your name means ?


Kori : ...a blank place ?


Saranyu smiled and she brewed the herbs Kori had brought for her and said.


Weaver.


Kori had no idea where mata was going with this, but her heart was ardently listening.

...to be continued.
For more stories goto : https://www.instagram.com/abhiart/

April 26th-2018.

New Book - Update

Hi Everyone, Thanks for coming down to this secret hideout, wanted to post an update about the work on the new book.
Some explorations hinting at the world, the world building is massive in this one, years scribed into sketch-books and stacks of notes surround me these days.

It's only now when i'm distilling all my notes into scripts, i'm realizing how much stuff might not make it in the opening few issues, i'll have to create openings to use that exciting material later on.

This regimented aspect of scripting is equally important, one cannot use all exciting part at once, it becomes a mess, usually a good rule to follow is, less is more, take a few good ideas and let them come together like a musical composition, stress on a few notes, go high on few, some pauses and breathing spaces, draw what is essential and try to put in quality writing work in the script, think about dialogue etc.

Writing and drawing a book can be a lot of work, i'm finally after many years, ready to begin the pages, it seems unreal, i hope it all ties up well.

Will post some more soon.

Thanks for visiting and reading,
if interested in more : https://www.instagram.com/abhiart/

"the knower of solitude - Kewalya"

"The Knower of Solitude - Kevalya" 

What is "Kevalya" this "Solitude" you've become asked the peacock ?

Is it to go away from people and places of clamor ? 

into the forest or inside the water if one can hold his or her's breath…

is it to drive away desires from one's mind and rest in a place of non-materialism 

or…

is it to take oneself away from the burning greed and want of comfort.

What is it Oh, Rishikesha, lord of all senses. 

Is it to take the body and mind into the five "Yamas" away from the distracting habits.

To immerse in…

non violence - Ahimsa, infused with "Satya" truthfulness, non- stealing of one's own virtues from temptation.

Is it to restrain "muladhara" and find center in the all pervading presence of "Brahman" and channeling it in our daily conduct "brahm-charya" to be as giving as nature is "Apari-graha" to be non aversive…

To be "non possessive" of our own good thoughts and let them be manifest through our actions for others.

The peacock continued, it this what solitude is Oh! Niranjana - the unblemished one…

…is it to understand "Kshama" forgiveness, to one's own mistakes and to channel "Krodha" anger as "Karuna"…

is it to see "Daya" compassion in oneself as a reflection of others…

What is "Kevalya" Oh! Hari - Lord of nature.

Is it to find control over "Niyamas" 

to be clean of one's mind Ego and malicious strands. 

to be content "Santosha" 

to contemplate on the nature of things and find that we are but a part of one universal self aligned by a band of the fire of "tapa" the radiating energy.

It is to know this and then give away this energy to everything around…emulating nature.

is it to know through this energy that there is a vibrational language in things around and within.

is it to feel this in one's heart and express it in silence emanating love.

is it to reconcile with time and death, to overcome the fear of decay..

…by knowing that the vibration will live on.

and that to create in one's mind "Huta" a ceremony of soul fire and observe "vrata" a place where one doesn't take anything but only gives...

...and that while we live we shall observe "Mita-hara" moderation in consuming and master the "Siddhasna" of one's mind, to keep it steady against any difficulty.

what is it…this solitude, Oh! Matangadeva - the lord of premonitions.

is it to know that "Asana" is not about holding the posture of the body alone but of the mind.

to stay with the steadiness of the thought or let it flow…

to know the "vritti's" the waves of the mind and to be in tandem with the "laya" and "parlay" the tides of the mind.

is it to know that "pranayama" is the ultimate prayer and the acknowledgement that we are all tied by the etheric fields emoting the unknowable divinity.

To know that each breath is a pearl we are creating inside the ocean of time, a rosary in accord with all things around.

is it to acknowledge this universal connection we share through our breath…

Oh ! Nirguna - the one without any material properties…what is "Kevalya" this solitude you have become…?

is it "pratyahara" to go away to a place in ether to bring back the lost awareness to our minds…

is it "Dharana" to be introspective while still embodying the world and it's beings.

is it to be "leen" immersed in "Dhyana" a place of universal harmony and observe the even flow and to exude that radiance to everyone around like the sun does.

is it to understand "the resonance" and "dissonance" are cyclic and that life and death are nothing but two medians intersecting in this world of existence…

…that we all are part of one sentient being.

is it to melt away into the energy, to give it back to the source it came from…

is it to give…

my body to earth.

my mind to ether.

my life to fire.

my colors to water

my flight to sky…

my good deeds to Life

my soul to kindness

my sight to innocence

my memories to Love.

my self to Earth.

…with that the peacock took a moment in silence.

The dark one hadn't spoken a word or maybe he spoke through the peacock…

The crimson of the evening was seeping through the trees glinting off the blue hued beings, like waves crashing onto the stones of time.

Nataraja -Shiva

New Art on Store

Have uploaded some new art and paintings on the site, do check them out and much Thanks for your support and Love.
https://www.abhishekartstore.com/

"The Blue Oscillation"

"The Blue Oscillation"

He understood what he'd always sensed that it was not the power of cosmic field or quantum vacuum which would propel them into the new world, it was the mind.
The "para-Shakti" had manifested the Mind, but how can it be so, one needed a mind at least a strand to conceive one.
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Who manifested the mind baffled the gods, they were new in this world.
The stories they had heard of the never ending pillar of light from brahma's own sons were utterly unbelievable, they could not fathom how can something not have an end or a beginning, even their lives had finite confines.
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A voice chanted in the the ether calling all Gods ? The voice of of Sada shiva- the one who had witnessed the eternal pillar of light, and the failed attempts to scale it by "Varah" vishnu and hams-brahma. -

The voice belonged to no man or no woman, it resonated like a thousand conchs were blown into the mahat-field of space and time, seeping into the orbits an unknown vibration.
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The gods knew this voice came from a distant place, a place which had seen earth and it's sibling planets grow up around a draft star, which now they called "Vamana"
This voice knew them in way they didn't know themselves.
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The voice commanded that half of the gods become "Movement" and half "stillness" the universe started to expand and contract all at the same time then…
The voice was gone, it had become part of everything, both waves and particles.
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The leader of "spandhan- the movement" "Kartikeya" took the seekers into a circle around the cosmos finding the star gate of the primordial mind, and Vinayaka the master of stillness sat and delved deep into the synaptic rhythms to find the hidden key to open such portals.
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They shall meet one and other in sinusoidal oscillations. It would be blue...To know where the voice and the primordial mind came from, they must listen to every atom's yearning.
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Text : Abhi Abhiart
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Painting size - 6ft x 4ft, acrylics on canvas.

"Mother"

"Mother"

As she swirled the world into a story, the birds became her tongue, the tigers her eyes, the deer her fingers, the snakes her ornaments, the eagle became her feet, the bear her belly, the owl her ears, the stag her shoulders, the fish her brows, the tree became her heart, She became the forest herself, the scribe and abode to poets of yonder, and with that and more she gave away every ounce of her light to everyone around her, only a mother could do that. She blended in everyone's heart as courage and kindness and the ones who longed for her when she was gone found her there lifting them up.
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Mother bless me to become Shanti (peace), to become Daya (compassion) to become Shunya (nothingness) to become Sattva (illuminated) bless me to become a tendril of your love unbound."
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The "Dancer" Nataraja

Quick Sketch Video -03

"Nataraja" The Cosmic Dancer

quick sketch video -01

made some quick sketch videos, will do a big canvas one soon !!!

full sketch !!!

"Otaree" the druid Frog

"Otaree the druid frog"

https://www.instagram.com/abhiart/ goto my instagram to follow his adventures.
🌻 his journey to locate the fabled "Agni" fire& contemplations of how humans have rampaged the beautiful earth.

Be Like Water

"Be like Water"

At times we forget the resilient water and the problems it's facing because of humanities ever encompassing Greed.

2.5%, fresh water endures 70%industrial waste and toxins.

Here are some more facts about water pollution.

01: Majority of past 60 years of waste is thrown into oceans and 80% of marine pollution comes from land based activities.

02: Fourteen billion pounds of garbage mostly plastic, is dumped into the ocean every year.

03: The Ganges river in India is one the most polluted in the world. 

04: On an average 250 million people worldwide succumb to diseases related to water pollution.

05: Plastic waste has caused deaths of more than 100,000 sea mammals, sea birds and various types of fishes.

06: Aquatic animal have faced an estimated extinction rate five times more than that of terrestrial animals.

07: 894 million people globally don’t have access to improved water sources.

08: Over 30 billion tons of urban sewage discharged into lakes, rivers and oceans each year.

09: Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are killed by pollution every year.

10: Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every HOUR.
Americans generate 10.5 million tons of plastic waste a year but recycle only 1 to 2% of it.

12: disposable plastic bags kill More than100,000 animals every year after ingesting or becoming entangled in them.

13: Plankton in the ocean absorb the chemicals, in their bodies this toxin become concentrated, large animals who eat them get contaminated.

14: Polar bears which eat seals can have contamination unto 3 billion times higher then their environment.

15: The humans don't escape this either, and are affected in turn by the contaminated sea food, what goes around comes around.

Shiva once clean the ocean, he drank the poison, it was human greed, but who will do this task now ?
Shiva is our collective efforts.

let's be a minimalist to begin with, don't waste water, make a promise.

every small action matters.

let's practice our intentions in every little bits of our lives…silently.

like Water.