Shunyata - The Ultimate Void

Images of this story were shot in different regions of Ladakh and Zanskar, including ancient Buddhist Monasteries dating back more than 3000 years. These monasteries are located in the remotest regions of the Indian Himalayas. Images displayed here are the first in a ten part series, of a personal quest where I search answers to some fundamental questions about life, its meaning and purpose and then later my understanding about nature of ‘Reality’. I am currently shooting this series in different spiritual regions of India. This quest is taking me to every nook and corner of India meeting sadhus, monks, philosophers, scientists and charlatans alike. Selected images from these stories will later become a part of my coffee table book titled “Entangled”. Constant interaction with brilliant Vedic & Buddhist scholars and philosophers has made me understand that the concept of a ‘Creator God’ proposed by organized religion is a childish one. It has failed to fully comprehend that unconditioned, non-dual, eternal omnipresent force. God is not a glorified Being sitting somewhere in the universe, directing lives of its people or attending to minute details of its day to day operations. We need to understand that the ‘Universal Mind’ does not exist separately in the universe but in it and as it. The universe was not arbitrarily created by any outside intervention but is self- born and governed by the eternal Law Of Cause and Effect or Karma. Impressions of all objects in the universe lie dormant within the inner depths of the Universal Mind, until they become active by the working of Karma. They are then projected in our familiar space-time dimension which we know as the material world. The universe is not only self-actuating but also self-determining.