Chetna Mehta – Merging Series  

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Merging Series is imbued with the philosophical thought of merging in the vast universe. It is also aimed at the mystical thought of discovering the Ultimate Truth of Brahman which kindles a flickering light of illumination within a soul.

 

The Merging Series was inspired by a visit to Kanyakumari at the southern tip of India, a site where three oceans meet on the threshold of the Kumari temple. From here you can distinctly see the three oceans uniting as one. This experience of having witnessed the merging of three oceans left a feeling of ecstasy that originated from a sublime vision of unity with infinite nature. Thus Kanyakumari became my Brahman.

 

 

The vital energy enters the cosmic source,

the senses dissolve in their cause,

and karmas and individual source are lost in Brahman

the pure, the changeless, the infinite.

 

As rivers flow into the sea and in doing so lose name and form

even so the wise man, freed from name and form,

attains the Supreme Being, the Self-Luminous, the Infinite.

 
 Mundaka Upanishad

 

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