The Great Path to Siva
February 22, 2022Today we share another of the new works of art being prepared in Kerala to adorn Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami's Yoga Sutras book, to be published later this year (we hope).
It depicts what Gurudeva loved to call the Straight Path to God. His hands held worshipfully above his head, a yogi follows the Sivaneri, unaware of the distractions of nature or village life. Our artist, Suresh Muthukulam, is working on the final, tenth canvas today.
His hands held worshipfully above his head, a yogi sees Siva, and only Siva.
His goal is the Light and Love of God Siva, standing at the end of the path in the form of a Mukhalinga.
On the right is the world of man, family life, culture, villages and survival strategies that perpetuate humanity, of which most are not consciously on the spiritual path but marching through their worldly karmas.
He is careful to follow the known path trod by the Great Ones, stepping in the footsteps of the illumined masters who have gone this way before. Though the yogi is on a strict path, looking neither left or right as he approaches God, he still blesses and understands all that is happening around him, knowing one day all will undertake these same sadhanas.
On the left is the beautiful natural world, with its organic forces, time, space, gravity and life-giving energies.
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