....the 'Observer' is calm and composed. The 'Driver' is submerged in this world...

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...At Vedanta, the symbolism of offering a coconut at the temple was explained to us. One offers a dry coconut - when you shake it you can hear the core rattling within. It has separated from the shell...

...the pujari breaks the coconut and reveals the core, representing the self and offers it back to you. I liked the analogy. I started seeing more clearly what I was trying to portray in my paintings....

...one sees the Body, Mind and Intellect as the gross 'self' and realises that the true 'subtle' self is the unchanging 'self', the 'soul' within...