Self-Portrait with Two Circles/Rembrandt/1660/Kenwood House, London
The orb of the Sun speechless and extreme
Holds in its halo the golden musings of eternal space
Its birth is the sepulchral monument of time
Christ-like, fixed yet dynamic in its dispensation
It is the ‘jyotir lingam’ that enters into the vortex of ancient matter
And plays with the divine elemental entities
A secret alchemy of transmutation is its primal creed
A hexagram emerges after the pointillism of musical dots and colors
Its the Sri Sai of sandhya puja, Sri Aurobindo of eternal perfection
The ascent and descent illuminates the multiple points
Till they are merged into the centre of mother’s congruent circles
Attuned to a centre of deep concord
And on the abode of the silence of Mt.Kailash
It’s the divine dance of the Lord that awakens in us
Our existence, consciousness and bliss.
- Joy Roy Choudhury
