WEL COME
I feel happy to introduce my new website of oil paintings done in the last few years.
I remember when I was ten, I had drawn a sketch of late Indian prime minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi with a glass marking black pencil on paper. My father Mohammad Amin, a practising physician then, on seeing the sketch one day after returning home from work, asked me where did I get that from. The answer was obvious-"I" did that!
That was the day it all started. Next day he took me to a certain art material shop called Kikabhai Mulla Gulamally in downtown old Ahmedabad city and bought me some art supplies on a condition that I would paint him the portrait of a famous Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib. That was my first commission painting, which I did it in oil. He paid me a price of all art supplies for the next thirteen years since then!!
I love my canvases, my paint brushes and my paints. With these tools I discover a language that is subtle. It is transmitting sensitive experiences.
Welcome to this website and I hope you will enjoy the paintings. Thank you.
With love.
Naushadali Shaikh
A WORD ON PASHYANTI:
The following excerpt is from Alpha and Omega: Discourses on Patanjali's Yoga Sutra by Osho
Now let me tell you one very basic yoga structure of your being.
Yoga divides your being into four layers. I am speaking to you; this is the last layer. Yoga calls it vaikhari; the word means "fruition," flowering. But before I speak to you, before I utter something, it becomes manifest to me as a feeling, as an experience; that is the third stage. Yoga calls it MADHYAMA, "the middle." But before something is experienced inside, it moves in a seed form. You cannot experience it ordinarily unless you are very meditative, unless you have become so totally calm that even a stirring in the seed which has not sprouted yet can be perceived; it is very subtle. Yoga calls that pashyanti; the word pashyanti means "looking back," looking to the source.
And beyond that is your fundamental being out of which everything arises. That is called para; para means "the transcendental."
Now try to understand these four layers. Para is something beyond all manifestation. Pashyanti is like a seed. Madhyama is like a tree. Vaikhari is like fruition, flowering.