Praagnyah प्राज्ञः

I share this short narrative only to verbalize the ideas that inspired this piece. The idea of art is to create the same bhava in the observer. Art makes you experience a bhava while language rationalizes it. Hence, language is, by its very nature, reductive. And if one is not careful, it can sometimes act against the very bhava that the art attempts to create. I pray that adding this description will only enhance the experience of the art:

वागर्थाविव संपृक्तौ वागर्थप्रतिपत्तये ।

जगतः पितरौ वन्दे पार्वतीपरमेश्वरौ ॥

COMMENTARY
This is inspired by Yama’s conversation with young Nachiketa in the Kathopanishad. Here the body is equated to a chariot where the horses are the senses, the mind is the reins, the driver or charioteer is the intellect, and the passenger of the chariot is the Atman. The quote on the art says “But he that has knowledge with his mind ever applied, his senses are to him as noble steeds and they obey the driver.”

This art underlines the awareness and vigil needed to keep the horses in control while fully indulging in samsara, and not forgetting the end goal.