Mrigatrishna : The mirage and the Mystery

The entire life of us goes in search of something. Money, power, network, knowledge, lust the list breathes and grows like a living thing. But the ultimate quest is love through liberation. Whether it's a man or a woman, the quest is the same. We go on in a loop, doing one thing after another, never to be satisfied. The same applies to a businessman, artist, politician, service provider anyone, the list is unending. That thing calls us to do more.

It's like a mirage in the desert that floats on the harsh and hot land. This concept is born from that. The beauty which is only for a limited time eludes us. We run from one person to another. The beauty shows her seductive moves, or we wanted to be moved there is no stopping for that. But deep down, somewhere, the beauty offers solace and reveals the ultimate truth. The truth that comes out in the form of fluid movements, gestures, colours. The form of a woman holds all of that. She holds the mystery of the cosmos and she pours it through her body and soul. The sacredness of her mystery is misunderstood and we run behind the form.

॥ तृष्णा वै सागरो गहनः, रूपं तीरमिव भासते । यस्तु तीरे न तिष्ठति, स एव पारं गच्छति ॥

Thirst is a vast and fathomless ocean; form appears like its shore. But one who does not cling to the shore only that one crosses to the other side.

When the afternoon turns into the evening and night, the mirage subsides. The pot turns into the setting sun and her curvy form floats in the sky like clouds. The cool wind freshens up the mind. And we come to know that she is not out there but within our own head. She is very real as well as our imagination. It's our thirst that she quenches by her presence and then disappears. We become one with each other and duality ends. The night takes you into her arms, wrapping you tightly, lulling you into another realm. There, nothing remains not you, nor her. The mirage and the person who sees it both disappear.

Like the river that does not mourn the ocean it dissolves into, the seeker too must one day surrender the seeking itself. The dissolution is not a loss it is the most intimate homecoming. Every step of the chase, every heartbreak at the vanishing of beauty, every restless night it was all the path. The confusion was the teaching. The longing was the lantern. And the very one who chased the mirage was always the destination wearing a disguise.

॥ माया नृत्यति सर्वदा, चेतनः पश्यति मुग्धवत् । यदा दृष्टा स्वयं माया, तदा नर्तकी लीयते ॥

Maya dances always, and the conscious one watches, spellbound. But the moment one truly sees Maya for what she is the dancer herself dissolves.

She is not merely the feminine she is the force that gives form to the formless. Before the first word was spoken, before the first breath was drawn, she was already moving. The cosmos did not come into being with a thought alone it came with a gesture, a rhythm, a curve. She is that original movement. Every dancer who has ever stepped onto the earth has been her echo. Every colour that has ever bled from a brush has been her whisper. She is not worshipped because she is beautiful she is beautiful because she carries within her the very pulse of creation.

॥ शक्तिः सृष्टेः प्रथमा गतिः, रूपेण विश्वं स्पन्दते । या स्त्री या नृत्यति भावतः, सा ब्रह्म साक्षात् प्रकाशते ॥

Shakti is the first movement of creation; through form, the universe pulsates. She who dances with true feeling in her, Brahman itself shines forth.

This is a tribute to that beautiful manifestation of Shakti through the feminine form and her mysterious moves. Nothing in this world is ordinary, nor accidental. She represents purpose and beauty together. She came to strike that ignorance with her gaze and her moves so that you find your purpose and your focus, without distraction. She is the mirage that makes you walk. She is the truth that makes you stop. And in that stillness between the walking and the stopping you find what you were always looking for.

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Words & Images : Yogesh Kardile

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