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Shanti
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 Posted - Dec 21 2010 : 08:38:57 AM
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Shanti
USA
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Posted - May 03 2011 : 6:17:15 PM
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Hi All,
Just want to share my new art website here: http://www.creationsfromstillness.com/paintings
I can never express my gratitude in words to Yogani and AYP and all my friends here at AYP for helping me get in touch with my inner silence. These are creations from this silence... an expression of the stillness from which every moment arises and subsides.
Thanks you. |
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mr_anderson
USA
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Posted - May 03 2011 : 8:33:33 PM
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| thanks for sharing this shanti, they are such beautiful paintings |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2011 : 08:27:25 AM
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| Thank you, mr_anderson. |
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Katrine
Norway
1813 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2011 : 10:49:28 AM
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Hey Shanti....I missed this whole post somehow.
I love your paintings [img]icon_heart.gif[/img]
May they keep coming - and thank you for sharing them so generously. |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - May 04 2011 : 10:59:55 AM
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| Thank you Katrine!!!!! |
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maheswari
Lebanon
2520 Posts |
Posted - May 05 2011 : 03:01:32 AM
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Dear Shanti...beautiful paintings...
i draw too
amd my mum is a painter ... |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - May 05 2011 : 07:35:39 AM
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Thank you my dear Maheswari.
Maybe you can share some of your art with us.
After the first AYP retreat in Allentown, we have had a few participants who found their inner artist. If you are on Facebook, send me a friend request and I can get you in touch with some of our artist friends... and we would all love to see your art too, and maybe your mother's art as well. |
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maheswari
Lebanon
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Posted - May 06 2011 : 05:01:51 AM
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Dear Shanti...
i am not on facebook...not my thing
txs |
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maheswari
Lebanon
2520 Posts |
Posted - May 06 2011 : 05:18:34 AM
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Dear Shanti
BTW ...i only draw.. no colouring...plus its not spiritual drawings.....i should develop this artistic side more..
mum stuff are real paintings...i mean oil paintings...modern stuff and nude stuff...but she is not doing any art anymore cause now she has alzheimer dementia...(i dont know why i felt like telling u this ) .
anyway thx dear |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - May 06 2011 : 08:02:04 AM
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No worries about FB. :)
Well, any form of art (painting, drawing, music, poetry, etc.) is an expression from the stillness.... it is the movement of the stillness, it is the shakti of the shiva... and sketches are just as divine as paints. So if you ever decide to share your drawings, do let me know. I would love to see them.
Much love to you and your mother. [img]icon_heart.gif[/img]
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maheswari
Lebanon
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Posted - May 07 2011 : 01:38:30 AM
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will keep that in mind
thx Shanti |
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Shanti
USA
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Swan
India
256 Posts |
Posted - Feb 01 2012 : 11:08:13 PM
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Hi Shanti,
I have seen your FB album before, those are awesome and you have really known colors and expressions. I was bigtime hit by the painting 'Radiance' along with others.
Wish you keep rocking, you are really an inspiration .
Love ... |
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maheswari
Lebanon
2520 Posts |
Posted - Feb 02 2012 : 01:43:14 AM
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| heart hands and stillness dancing are my favorites |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Feb 02 2012 : 09:25:06 AM
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Thanks Swan and Maheswari.
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2012 : 09:14:35 AM
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On Maha Shivaratri, I would like to quote the blessings of Shiva:
"23. Feel your substance, bones, flesh, blood, saturated with cosmic essence."
-Vigyana Bhairava Tantra
...and share my latest painting "Melting Heart" http://www.creationsfromstillness.c...elting-heart
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2012 : 09:16:58 AM
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This painting (Melting Heart)came to me as a vision. A few days after the vision, I found a cave in my heart.
I had asked Christi(our resident scholar ) about this and he quoted:
"The primeval one who is hard to perceive,
wrapped in mystery, hidden in the cave,
residing within the impenetrable depth—
Regarding him as god, an insight
gained by inner contemplation,
both sorrow and joy the wise abandon."
~Katha Upanishad
He also shared these words of Rumi :
"My Heart is a place of prayer"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...=BJ1LrJI2U7w
Thanks Christi.
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chit-ananda51
India
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Posted - Feb 20 2012 : 09:52:02 AM
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Shanti...That was a precious gift on a Maha Sivarathri eve.. :)
By the way, how did you get into colors and brushes?? Doesn't seem like a skill acquired in this lifetime.. especially when it comes out of stillness. 
I see "Melting heart" as the grace that fills this Universe.. That was wonderful! |
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maheswari
Lebanon
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Posted - Feb 20 2012 : 11:28:24 AM
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beautiful Shanti...i started to draw again...but only using wood pencil and wooden pencils colors....now i am drawing Ganesha....before it i did a beautifully colored peacock...will share them soon ...
happy Sivaratri everybody
Love |
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maheswari
Lebanon
2520 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2012 : 11:34:42 AM
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| really Christi is our resident scholar...very nice verse from Katha Upanishad |
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Swan
India
256 Posts |
Posted - Feb 20 2012 : 11:21:34 PM
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As I see the painting, my heart sings the song ...
"Light my soul with thy holy flame.
let my darkness my sadness melt into light ... "
[Aguner poroshmoni chhoao pran-e]
Thanks for sharing Shanti |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 09:33:35 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by chit-ananda51
Shanti...That was a precious gift on a Maha Sivarathri eve.. :)
By the way, how did you get into colors and brushes?? Doesn't seem like a skill acquired in this lifetime.. especially when it comes out of stillness.
I see "Melting heart" as the grace that fills this Universe.. That was wonderful!
Thank you Chit-ananda.
My aunt is a really good artist and she used to make all my cousins and me and my brother and the little kids in our neighbourhood draw and color every Sunday morning when we were kids . That was my introduction to paints. But that did not last. Then when I was 16 I did 2 watercolors, but they lacked something. And then in May of 2010 stillness got me out of my shell and made me start painting again (maybe I have it from another lifetime ).
Thanks again. |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 09:35:20 AM
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Originally posted by maheswari
beautiful Shanti...i started to draw again...but only using wood pencil and wooden pencils colors....now i am drawing Ganesha....before it i did a beautifully colored peacock...will share them soon ...
happy Sivaratri everybody
Love
Thank You Maheswari.
I hope you share some of your artwork. Would love to see them. I love peacocks... |
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Shanti
USA
4854 Posts |
Posted - Feb 21 2012 : 09:56:38 AM
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Originally posted by Swan
As I see the painting, my heart sings the song ...
"Light my soul with thy holy flame.
let my darkness my sadness melt into light ... "
[Aguner poroshmoni chhoao pran-e]
Thanks for sharing Shanti
Wow Swan...
Thank YOU!!!
That song fits so well. I had forgotten that song... my mom used to sing it at family gatherings and parties when I was younger... listened to it this morning and it brought tears to my eyes (and brought back some beautiful memories of our family gatherings )...
Thank you.
For others, it is a Bengali song by Rabindranath Tagore...
http://youtu.be/Xe7U1A3VDxQ
English translations to the lyrics go like this (pretty close ):
Touch my heart with your fire
So that this life
burns as a glorious offering.
Let this body
Be like a lamp among the heavens
And every song
Light up in glowing gesture.
In the heart of darkness
I shall feel your touch
Through the nights
As you light the stars
One after another.
No darkness shall
Veil this vision -
I shall find wondrous lights
Wherever I gaze.
And my tears
Will find a blazing fervor
As they reach up for the skies.
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