Cracked Rear View

Srinagar in March

2007-06-04T00:34:00.000+05:30

Brand New Day-6

Sky starting to clear-5

En route to airport-4

Snow sets in-3

Mustard Fields-2

Dal Lake -1

2007-06-04T00:28:00.000+05:30

There's no such thing as 'sure' thing!

Ego and Creativity

2007-06-04T00:15:00.000+05:30

Human beings created words and ended up falling in love with them, hating them, and being confused by them. 'Ego' is one such word that stands like a sword over the creator's head.

Ego, in its true self, is the belief that one is separate from the universe.

Matisse says 'The artist has but one idea. He is born with it and spends a lifetime developing it and making it breathe. I basically work without theory. I am aware only of the forces I use, and I move along the course of the picture's creation, pushed by an idea that I come to know only gradually as it develops.'

Thus it is impossible for one to be divorced from their environment. Everything passes through one and becomes oneself. Which is why one is able to 'create' in every sphere. So one's universe is like an amoeba, all absorbing. And Ego doesn't absorb, it blocks. Thus, what one's experience is not Ego, but the process of humbling creation. Because if it was Ego, one would not be able to create.

Unfortunately, Ego is rampant.

Plenty of things happened since I last blogged

2007-06-03T21:17:00.000+05:30

1. It rained.
2. The weather is beautiful.
3. I visited Marine Drive.
4. Caste war politics erupted in Rajasthan
5. I watched 3 movies back-to-back
6. Started working on a new story.

2007-05-27T17:37:00.000+05:30

And openly I pledged my
heart to the grave and suffering
land,and often in the consecrated
night, I promised to love her faithfully
until death,unafraid,with her heavy
burden of fatality, and never to
depise a single one of her enigmas.Thus
did I join myself to her with a
mortal cord.

Holderinlin:
The Death of Empedocles