"As when the mantra sinks in Yoga’s ear, Its message enters stirring the blind brain And keeps in the dim ignorant cells its sound; The hearer understands a form of words And, musing on the index thought it holds, He strives to read it with the labouring mind, But finds bright hints, not the embodied … Continue reading Artistic Yoga = Yogic Arts: Esoteric Explorations by Yoginis & Yogis
"The Infants of the monarchy of the worlds, The heroic leaders of a coming time, King-children nurtured in that spacious air Like lions gambolling in sky and sun Received half-consciously their godlike stamp: Formed in the type of the high thoughts they sang They learned the wide magnificence of mood That makes us comrades of … Continue reading Artists with Children
And Narad slowly answered to the queen: “What help is in prevision to the driven? Safe doors cry opening near, the doomed pass on. A future knowledge is an added pain, A torturing burden and a fruitless light On the enormous scene that Fate has built.” 01 May is anniversary of Narada Rishi and the … Continue reading Messages and Songs: The Nobel-pious Flowing Offerings
01 – 28 April 2018 / 2019 / 2020 (28 days) "Where life is only a labour and a hope, A child of Matter and by Matter fed, A fire flaming low in Nature’s grate, A wave that breaks upon a shore in Time, A journey’s toilsome trudge with death for goal? The Avatars have … Continue reading Buddha Jumps Over the River: Kalki in 3378 A.D.
The 12 Physical Residencies programmes are located at the premises of AZIMVTH Ashram in Haridwar, India. Selected participants travel from any part of the world to Haridwar and reside at AZIMVTH Ashram at Haridwar in India. There are 12 standard residency programmes from January to December. Across the year, various ancient Indian celebrations and observances … Continue reading Physical Residencies: 12 from Jan to Dec
"But this was now unreal or remote Or covered in the mystic fathomless blank. In infinite Nothingness was the ultimate sign Or else the Real was the Unknowable. A lonely Absolute negated all: It effaced the ignorant world from its solitude And drowned the soul in its everlasting peace." Virtual Residencies A participant may be … Continue reading Virtual Residencies
Pilgrims of the Inner Worlds A multi-national group of about a dozen creative writers (published authors as well as amateurs) is being assembled. They are coming together to create a collaborative fictional novel based on their own memoirs. A broad outline of the plot is given below. One may choose to write one chapter of … Continue reading Pilgrims of the Inner Worlds
The Longest Poem (& Colourful Equinox) by An Immortal Man 01 – 28 March 2019 / 2020 (28 days) “Poems in largeness cast like moving worlds And metres surging with the ocean’s voice Translated by grandeurs locked in Nature’s heart But thrown now into a crowded glory of speech The beauty and sublimity of her … Continue reading The Longest Poem by An Immortal
"Alive and clad with trees and herbs and flowers Earth’s great brown body smiled towards the skies, Azure replied to azure in the sea’s laugh; New sentient creatures filled the unseen depths, Life’s glory and swiftness ran in the beauty of beasts, Man dared and thought and met with his soul the world." E-residency: The … Continue reading Celestial Forest: Astrology, Ayurveda, and Art
“A huge inertness is the world’s defence, Even in change is treasured changelessness; Into inertia revolution sinks, In a new dress the old resumes its role; The Energy acts, the stable is its seal: On Shiva’s breast is stayed the enormous dance.” 01 – 28 February 2019 / 2020 (28 days) Cooper and Murph’s dialogues, and … Continue reading Shiva’s Tesseract: Writing De-myth.
