Creative Writing – AZIMVTH Ashram

Memoirs: Virtual Retreat for Spiritual Writing

January 24, 2020March 21, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Uncategorized

Write your own spiritual memoir.

Images of the Worlds: Introduction

July 25, 2019July 26, 2019 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Photography

Introduction to the collection - Images of the Worlds.

Protected: Images of the Worlds

July 22, 2019July 26, 2019 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Photography, Virtual residency

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Who is the Goddess of Yoga?

Featured by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Yoga

If there were to be a Goddess of Yoga, who could she be?

What’s my Spiritual Name?

June 21, 2019August 29, 2019 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Languages, Mantra, Meditation, Virtual residency, Writing creatively, Yoga

Do you have a spiritual name? A Yoga name? Find more...

A Short Walk in the Hindu Sukh

June 16, 2019February 21, 2020 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Haute Couture, Knitting, Looms - weaving

An artist from a UNESCO heritage site in New Zealand creates haute couture and writes poetry at AZIMVTH residency.

Protected: Contributors to the AZIMVTH World-Book -Day 2019 Puzzle

April 29, 2019May 7, 2019 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Uncategorized

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AZIMVTH World-Book-Day 2019 Puzzle

April 28, 2019April 29, 2019 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing

The Day is a celebration to promote the enjoyment of books and reading. Each year, on 23 April, celebrations take place all over the world to recognize the scope of books - a link between the past and the future, a bridge between generations and across cultures. On this occasion, UNESCO and the international organizations … Continue reading AZIMVTH World-Book-Day 2019 Puzzle

Apply for a residency

January 14, 2019July 11, 2019 by azimvth, posted in Art Residency, Artists, Calligraphy, Calls Residency, Children & Young Adults, Cinema art, Creative Writing, Drawing, Education, February, God, Haute Couture, January, July, Knitting, Languages, Local art, Looms - weaving, Mantra, Mantra Chanting, March, Meditation, Movies, Music, Obama, Performance Art, Photography, Pilgrimage, Sculpture, Studio, Uncategorized, Virtual residency, Wood cut, Writing creatively, Yoga

Application process and form for artist residency at 365 Haridwar / AZIMVTH Ashram explained.

Pilgrims of the Inner Worlds

February 22, 2018September 22, 2019 by azimvth, posted in Creative Writing, Virtual residency

A multi-national group of about a dozen creative writers (published authors as well as amateurs) are coming together to create a collaborative fictional novel based on their own memoirs.

In the play ‘Abhigyan-Shakuntalam’ of Kalidasa (400 C.E.), King Dushyanta forgets the name and identity of Shakuntala. The name is the identity. However, Shakespeare (1564), the Kalidasa of the West, had a different view on names in his play ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Goethe (1749) doesn’t agree with Shakespeare in his play ‘Faust’.

“Juliet:

Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

Romeo:

I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.”

Goethe doesn’t follow this argument of Shakespeare as seen his play ‘Faust’, the following epigram based on Kalidasa’s ‘Abhigyan-Shakuntalam’.

“Wilt thou have charms and delights,
Wilt thou have strength and support,
Wilt thou with one short word encompass the
earth and the heaven,
All is said if I name only, Shakuntla, thee.”