#sufi # bhakti #bundi – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com A blog exploring India's Ganga Jamuni Tehzeeb or its rich multi plural multi cultural heritage via its adab, tehzeeb & tareekh Wed, 26 Apr 2023 05:14:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://ranasafvi.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/image-7-75x75.jpg #sufi # bhakti #bundi – Rana Safvi https://ranasafvi.com 32 32 179612229 Jal Krida of Lord Krishna and it’s spiritual implications https://ranasafvi.com/kal-krida-of-lord-krishna-and-its-spiritual-implications/ https://ranasafvi.com/kal-krida-of-lord-krishna-and-its-spiritual-implications/#respond Wed, 26 Apr 2023 05:13:58 +0000 https://ranasafvi.com/?p=38338

Jal Krida:
Ghoonghat ke pat khol toge piya mile ge.
Ghoonghat: veils of ignorance
Piya : divine

A very popular ( not sure if it’s authentic) saying of Hazrat Ali is : Learn your religion, do not inherit it.
One of our biggest failings is that we have stopped learning & unquestionably accept WhatsApp forwards.
I have heard people classify this representation of Lord Krishna stealing the clothes of the bathing gopi as fun and frolic or even evesteasing whereas it’s a spiritual metaphor, and the meaning is very deep if one knows anything about Bhakti or Sufism.
The water is reawakening / coming out anew as if new birth.
The clothes symbolise moh or materialism/ attachment to physical objects which have to be shed along with ego to achieve union with the Divine.
It’s only when all veils have been dropped between soul and divine that the spiritual union can take place.
Now see this wall painting on the wall of Chitrashala in Garh palace Bundi with new eyes.
#krishna #radha #gopi #bundi #wallpainting #bhakti #sufi #jalkrida

]]> https://ranasafvi.com/kal-krida-of-lord-krishna-and-its-spiritual-implications/feed/ 0 38338 “Shah Jahan on a Terrace, painted by Chitarman- Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait”, Folio from the Shah Jahan Album,recto: 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50 ~ Met Museum https://ranasafvi.com/shah-jahan-on-a-terrace-painted-by-chitarman-holding-a-pendant-set-with-his-portrait-folio-from-the-shah-jahan-albumrecto-1627-28-verso-ca-1530-50-met-museum/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 01:07:54 +0000 https://ranasafvi.com/shah-jahan-on-a-terrace-painted-by-chitarman-holding-a-pendant-set-with-his-portrait-folio-from-the-shah-jahan-albumrecto-1627-28-verso-ca-1530-50-met-museum/

Gallery Text :

The presentation of the emperor amplifies the formula evolved during the reigns of Akbar and Jahangir. Shah Jahan is exquisitely dressed and richly adorned with jewels, his imperial rank emphasized by his radiating halo and the hovering angels borrowed from European art. The skills of many craftsmen and designers of the Mughal court—jewelers, weavers, architects, feather workers, armorers, stonecutters, and others—are represented here. This is Chitarman’s earliest dated picture, painted soon after Shah Jahan’s accession.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451270

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