Shree: Action

 

Shree: Action

Action or manifestation is a form of eternal existence/ truth. We have manifested as a form and hence action or motion or movement becomes perceivable for us and we act through this movement. The origin of movement and intention are only with God, try has hard as we can to decipher the same. The origin lies with God means that by Its mere existence, things come into being/ action/ form. How they come  - there are billion ways of becoming something and at the same time, billion ways of creating connections. All is Divine presence, although It is seen in a different way and in many ways. This compels action for us, at a human level.

The point is one is required to act and act without doubting the need of action. I think action is the only way to transcend and it is the only way given to us by God to do so. So one can see action in that spirit.

Of course this is written with the intent of analysis – in actual lived experience, there might be pain, anger, doubt, struggle to become steady. Yet the purpose does not change, even though one may “arrive” at the purpose in billion ways.

Hari Om.

Shree: self and sustainability

 

Shree: self and sustainability

Self is a misunderstood and thoroughly ignored idea of what it really means. At the core of sustainability, the sense of self is fundamentally to be realized having universal connections with all states of existences – from the invisible to visible and hence all things become relational and interconnected. If things are interconnected, how can harm or abuse be inflicted on any thing? All I am doing, is feeling the self through many phenomena!

This has repercussions on feelings, relations, built environment, density, landscape, action, process, engagement, climate, culture and many other things. It is far more than a causal relationship or one of variables and it can have many scales of time and space. The intent with which an action takes birth, evolves and manifests also becomes quite profound as compared to an idea of production and individual freedom.

At the two extreme levels we have people running like dogs and producing things without knowing the meaning or connections behind the cycles of production – they only care about producing or making some noise. At the other end we have action coming from depth of intangible spirituality which is happy within itself and doesn’t seem to give much notice to pressures of time and space. There in fact is no pressure – time and space are born through this dimension.

Increase in speed, increased individualism has a huge dent on environment, built space/ mass and resources. Fragmentation or individualism seems to make existence ‘unsustainable’. If sustainable is the idea, then interconnectedness and dissolving the ego and relationships should be at the core of undertaking. If that can be achieved, then actions can become truly sustainable.

Hari Om.

Shree: Action

 

Shree: Action

We have come with a lot of inheritance that “creates” action and our attachment and perception with the same. In other words, vibrations, thoughts, feelings, body and action – are a continuous web of operations that can be referred as ‘manifestations’ or any phenomenon. This cycle of action creates many relationships with visible and invisible worlds which are eternal, and hence we continue to become visible and invisible again. Visibility and invisibility are states of existence or states of web/action/manifestation/perception and it can be seen from this relationship that in any state of being, vibrations, awareness or memory and intent of action through a form of a ‘body’ is necessary; else the action may not materialize.

To materialize is a dimension of existence and when one understands this, one also understands that there will always be some vibration acting on us that will urge us or pull us to materialize things or create things or situations. Through this process, ‘I’ gets created. Hence the scope of ‘I’ is enormous coming all the way from subtle states to gross states of visibility. Relativeness is the nature of the phenomenal world and hence things are seen, perceived differently and we act in different ways. Difference is a state of being. Oneness is a higher state of being. Invisibility is the higher state of being, from which, action begins and goes back. Whoever said that action is not required, is thoroughly mistaken. For us, action is the only way to reach or become a being of non action.

Incompleteness and the range of emotions associated with incompleteness come from a state of blissfulness. This is not only a logical or a causal relationship, but something mysterious  - having the touch of Divine presence. Hence to feel the touch of Divinity, trust is required to be grown within us. “What does trust give me” – is quite an unnecessary and a stupid question to ask. Trust is trust.

Hari Om.

Shree: Connections and Form

 

Shree: Connections and Form

To know God is to feel Him and every transformation would mean transforming existential nature in terms of space, time, thoughts and feelings. Feelings shouldn’t be forgotten. One may “arrive” at feelings from space-time relationships OR feelings can be seen as a measure of defining space and time relationships. Of course in reality both aspects work simultaneously – one being analytical and the other experiential. The basis of experience and also of analysis is embedded in the nature of vibrations.

Also, what kind of narrative one prefers in philosophy or in other fields matters. Narrative can be of ‘chiselling out and dissolving the unnecessary to arrive at the essence’ or it can also be of ‘acknowledging and establishing relations and connections and therefore realizing a meaning’. I think the second narrative seems more emphathetic although again, both include one another.

Meaning does not form in isolation. Meaning means to become connected and hence define what the world means for that form in existence. Hence it is always about understanding and becoming aware of the role of the web in the individual’s life and the current position one seems to be in the web. When one talks about a situation, person, object or the self – one essentially is required to talk of change, relations, connections, and hence bring the entire world of imagination into visibility. This is inevitable and wonderful too, since it means that there exists only a web of connections and what we think we are, is a function of this nature of being.

Any field of knowledge can bring this awareness. Architecture is all about relations – can be architectonic elements, to spaces to site to territory to family to society to traditions to senses to myth to cosmogony and so on. The relations are important – no one lay a claim that myth is outdated or traditions do not make sense at all. Everything makes sense, and everything becomes a part of conception and perception of space and time.

The search for the Form means to realize the connections. Or perhaps the connections seem to be “realized through a Form”.

Hari Om.

Shree: anthropomorphic

Shree: anthropomorphic

The intellect and feelings (mind) or anything of manifestation is governed by the deepest of feelings or nature of existence. Intellect and feelings that we know about the mind is created from a more fundamental state of being and which is shared across time, scale and forms and which builds the external world. Hence the name of God is required to be undertaken to “feel” this state or the layer of existence. since currently we believe that we have no access to this layer, what develops are fleeting and changing range of emotions – fear being one of them. It is perhaps not that fear goes away in this layer, the form of intellect and feelings of any kind maybe changing and fusing into a uniform whole. As one becomes ‘external’, there occurs differentiation in this medium of whole into apparent separated parts such as intellect, feelings, body, senses and so on. Hence, to become external means to create separation and to become internal means to be whole (and complete).

In the phenomenal world, we can take efforts as we wish – this may sometimes trigger wholeness within us – so there is always a place for actions. I do not believe that phenomenon ought to be dismissed. Phenomenon is an aspect of internal world of God, so it has to be seen in that perspective.

If one even looks at tribal cultural examples, then the idea of territory or architecture or spaces is anthropomorphic (seems to be one measure of making sense of the world). In today’s times, we refer to other symbols – such as maths or science to makes sense of the world. So symbols in themselves (may be anthropomorphic or life forms or geography themselves and even diagrams of representations) may suggest a lot about the character of sense of belonging. What we feel internally leads to its representation! And what gets represented is “read” as a function of what we sense internally! In this way we define language and then the language feeds us in turn! Therefore there is an effort which is required to decode traditional cultures.

One way of representing a given phenomenon anthromorphically means that I see the feet of God and if I need to see the head of God and look in His eyes, then I need to go internally within the self.

Hari Om.

Shree: Form by sequence

 

Shree: Form by sequence

Analysis and inference and perception as a phenomenon is conditional and dependent on the nature of manifestation – it comes to play wthin this medium. A movement or motion of anything – vibrations, thoughts, feelings, forms, objects, situations is realized or comes into manifestation in consciousness.

Sequence – anger or any feeling is a function of an assumed sequence of variables. If I break down any of ideas or feelings or words into variables then what is realized is a self constructed notion of how things ought to be. Similarly “I” can also be analysed or decoded to come to a feeling of a steady medium.

Sequence also means coditions and relations. Sequence will not exist unless certain conditions and relations get formed. Collectively then, “manifestation” can be said as a “form” of consciousness and when we say a “form”; then we mean movement, motion, sequences, variables, and all principles of design. Or philosophically, a “form” comes “into being only through medium of space and time”.

So form = space and time.

This means that consciousness = beyond form

Hari Om.

Shree: openness of being

 

Shree: openness of being

One can talk about incompleteness and still keep taking the name of God. Since there is a phenomenon to seek or expect “completeness”, it is a journey of becoming steady and not about any logical solution or about feelings. Of course this ought to be learnt – one learns by making mistakes and encountering pain. One may also inherently be born with this wisdom, perhaps for the majority it is just effort.

Space and time are existential expressions of consciousness – some change, dependence, action, work, intent, forces, and forms. All this is “alive” as a property of consciousness and with each of the transformative act, the character of I changes. This is to be accepted and somewhere the intellect, feelings and forms become “visible”. Visibleness is a property of being, just as Invisibleness is and both are “full”. Currently we assume that visbleness is the truth – meaning that is the only way of responding and what is felt or seen or thought about is the only way of survival or getting happy.

In order that Invisibleness is felt, one has to become invisible (subtleness and given the value it deserves – that it exists). Philosopically visibleness is referred as the “stepping down” of the Potential of Being – from being blissful and absolute and beyond to something which becomes limited, finite, temporary, changing, conditioned and relative. So one is required to “step up” to becoming Absolute.

In architecture, awareness begins from where? If consciousness is felt then all processes of starting from consciousness to a form become acknowledged in architecture. If senses are the only reality, then we are concerned only about the immediate necessity of survival of the self (not even the other or family or anything else).

A climate may seem to offer opportunites of giving a clue of connections from geopgraphy to a human form leading to transition of spaces. This seems to be a default idea (at least in warm climates). However more fundamental than this is the idea of consciousness getting expressed in architecture. Then the act of architecture takes a form of territorial setting leading all the way to cosmogony.

Form making then becomes incidental and may not (or need not) reflect a direct or a causal relationship with climate. This is also true in contemporay times – it is not how open or closed the form is visually (by glass or surveillance systems). More fundamental is the openness or close endedness of mindscape that reveals the dimension of consciousness in its very own actions.

Hari Om.

Shree: The profound loop

 

Shree: The profound loop

Invisibleness and subtleness is the absolute state of being/ existing. It is real and it exists. By wanting to “see” the medium, it vibrates to create a material reality. Anything that becomes visible means a movement, change, vibration and something that has a character, can be thought about, analyzed, felt through senses and acted upon – all this is movement/ vibration/ motion/ visibility of consciousness.

It seems that the property of pure being “creates” a phenomenon of material world – like a shadow of the Sun. There is a Sun and hence there could be a shadow. By the shadow, we confirm that there is a Sun, althought we are yet to actually feel the Sun.

There seems to be a need to make the invisible  - visible and in doing so, the expression or a “form gets created”. This will have of course, its own nature/ character, but the seed of which is coming from the invisible medium.

Hence a “form” is an expression of consciousness that “seem to have its own independent character” (but actually exists as an apparent web).

Why should a movement be generated or visibleness be generated? We do not know and it will be a wonder if we digest this situation the way it is, since accepting it full heartedly may open up a possibility to go beyond.

It seems that a profound “loop” of invisiblness to visibleness to invisibleness again keeps on getting “played out” just for the sake of its own presence! At our level of course, this loop has to be broken down to minute scale to everyday wonder of life.

Hari Om.

Shree: The Origin

 

Shree: The Origin

The origin of everything in the world of becoming is in vibrations ‘formed’ in the medium of consciousness. The objects or situations and perceptions we “sense” are “born” or “created” out of vibrations, although it takes practice and training to the phenomenon of the mind to realize this. Connections from consciousness to vibrations to forces to forms is very subtle and beyond just logic. What we call as logic or feelings exist or is formed only in a particular state of existence – before which, there are vibrations and before vibrations there is only the One. In each transformation, there is a “nature” of getting engaged or nature of creation gets defined and set in motion (called as momentum). This, at our level, we call as perception and conception. Anything, in any state of existence has a property of being, retaining or remembering, evolving and transcending. Hence all “things” or “forms” or “materials” exist in this property. The fundamental of all properties present in any state is transcendence or becoming consciousness (again). Phenomenon radiates from this basic presence of consciousness and hence to become the One means to become steady in vibrations and “see” materials as a direct expression of consciousness. The nature of “sight” is therefore a function of state of being and what gets seen is a mysterious mix of awareness, vibrations and steadiness.

Above may be the Truth, but at our level this Truth is to be known, realized through our nature of being – which is thoughts and feelings and body. This is bestowed to us, we have become or created in this way and hence the journey is to realize what is this existence all about?

I get angry and do I get angry on a situation or the object or a person? And “why”? what is this origin of anger? What is anger? How does it form and colour the self and compel the self to respond? The transformation of vibration to an object is so fast and subtle and in fact seamless that we need to “catch” this chain of events, else we end up concentrating on the wrong end of the chain to control things. Whatever you see or feel  - has a direct implant within the self. If one is angry “on something”, then the anger is in you and your expectations and ego and assumptions and imagination! This is not to say that you should not complain. It only suggests that self effort is required, regardless of the situation one faces. There is no race here and there is no prize money here. It is only a matter of becoming steady.

Think.

Hari Om.

Shree: thoughts

 

Shree: thoughts

If a feeling of disconnection gets generated, there is anxiety. I think the central issue is to maintain a sense of connect – that may mean through talking, writing, contemplating, feeling, dreaming, doing exercise, planning and accepting the self with all dilemmas and fears and so on. Why things happen in certain ways – the answer will always be changing, evolving, depending since that is the nature of existence. No one knows for sure how things ought to be (it is a construct), so as long as you are convinced, all is acceptable. In the act of convincing, becoming silent, expressing individualism – all concepts have a dimesion of self, family, community and consciousness – one cannot ignore anything here. And the reason one understands these dimensions is because that is the manner in which phenomenon seems to happen for us and the journey we undertake. There is no individual without the collective and the transcendental and vice versa. All dimensions exist at the same time – they have their place and it is not for us to say why they ought to be present and in what manner they appear for us. “Being present or manifesting” is not for us to comment on in absolute terms. One can think, analyze and express any kind of discomfort or annoyance, but one need not expect such dimensions to go away. Creation in that sense, can be deceiving if taken personally but can become liberating when one expands. So for me there are Principles, there is effort, there is hardship, there is dilemma, there is revelation and there is the prospect of change or consciousness. And that is ALL ok. If all things materialize from God Himself, who am I to object?! And this talk about God and self as separated experiences is also intrinsic in our perception – one need not feel guilty about it (or about anything for that matter).  There is going to be anger and hurt – the issue is how can it dissolve; how it need not govern one’s thoughts; how it does not lead to any conditions of existence.

All intents in that way already exist as a Potential of consciousness. We only materialize them and bring them to the material world. So the issue is about the kind of intent and vibrations we become and ake effort for the same. I am surely not at all perfect, but that is not an indication of being less worthy or being angry at anything or being compelled to do anything or pressurizing onself about anything or being guilty about anything. I am not perfect and that is all ok, since perfection is an entirely flawed concept. I am not a super human being and I do get hurt and misconceive things – and that is all ok. I do have a right to say things in any tone without feeling guilty.  There is of right of imagination and feeling pressurized, but that in no way means any absolute all powerful reality. I have a right to be and a right of being steady through any means that is given to me.

Hari Om.

 

Shree: Going on the road

 

Shree: Going on the road

On the road today, a bike ahead of me accidently went kaput when the signal turned “green”. Others behind the biker (including me) honked at him probably indicating that it was nonsense of him for the bike to go kaput at  that very instant! He started the bike and zoomed ahead, followed by us. After 4 seconds I wondered why is he “still zooming ahead” when the experience is over in the past tense?

Was he under the influence of the honking of the horns and wanted to drive as fast as possible to get away from that experience? Or was he guilty of his bike going kaput all of a sudden? Or did he want to reach some destination and felt that he had lost some precious moments of life? Or maybe more such influences?

The point is about ‘influences’ that we become and carry which cause momentum, action, perception, change and so on. All situations can be regarded as influences; all things happening as a phenomenon of space and time can be said as influences. The pull of action is so subtle and since it is subtle (origins beyond any physical form), the triggers run deep and seem extremely profound. Whoever says that space and time will not influence any of his action does not really know what he is saying.

This goes on to say that “space –time” mean change, relation, connection, remembrance/ retention/ memory, evolution and the promise of going beyond. This is the nature of manifestation or of the phenomenon itself. If there is “I”, then there has to be space-time construct or some meaning that gets expressed.

So the crux is to evolve “I” in a way that space-time is not required for I’s existence. In using the symbol of “Shree”, that is exactly what absolute existence means – going beyond space and time constructs or pulls or actions. Kant refers to it as noumenon (in The Critique of Reason) and several approaches in architecture are present to connect us to Beyond.

Hari Om.

 

Shree

 

Shree

As a medium of being, Existence has its own truthful “property” of manifesting and or being steady. Is this a conversion or is this an illusion? One doesn’t know but one has given numerous symbolic explanations to indicate what may be happening. One can be symbolic at best and hence there is a potential of transcending, evolving and retaining in any state of existence. Through this property ‘I’ am created and I can evolve, become, retain, forget and transcend. This may offer clues as to what is fear and what is love and both are created in the same medium. Creation is also the result of above property – “to become”. All the pain one experiences with all the struggles and all the promises etc. are a reflection of above properties.

We are required to become steady in this state of change and what we perceive as existence. And a lot of patience and practice becomes important for this.

I am not sure if the pressures of space and time are required to compel us to perform; I am not sure about dismissing them off either. Whatever it is – the phenomenon of space and time needs our understanding. I am not sure if i am required to be worried or to ignore worries – both options come from the same logic of attachment (and therefore limitations). There is action agreed and there is an intent that is created. All of this has a beginning, connection and an end. All of this comes and goes. All of this materializes and dissolves. All of this, gets seen and transcended.

Hari Om.

Shree: The Architect

 

Shree: The Architect

One does not require to know ‘everything’ or all dmensions of existence to act on a situation. Same is in the case with architecture. Architecture can stem from desire or control, or a causal relationship or empathy/ love or philosophy – trigger is internal and perhaps not what one ‘sees’ outside. In any case what one ‘sees’ is a function of internal state of mind and hence that is what one ought to focus on – not on any external form.

As architects, one can read and conceive a situation – one doesn’t need to know the history of form behind it. One can also design, synthesis and analyse a situation in a fresh manner wihout adhering or confirming to any baggages of the past or worries of the future. Synthesis and analysis is a unique and a fresh idea based on the individual and there is no standard framework for the same. One may read books or write or see or design – whatever the case, one can ‘do’ architecture in any given state.

The idea of context and transcendence and synthesis comes to the architect in different ways of perception, not necessarily logical or sequential or historical or cultural or academic or any given dimension. This is the architect’s position and is diferent from other fields. Architect’s challenges, dilemmas and effort to synthesize are different and in undertaking the process of design, that is exactly he/she is engaging the self.

Hari Om.