Sufi Art

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Rab bandey vich aivey vasda,

Jinve kapde vich roo

Aape aap noo waja maarey

Aap kare hoo hoo

Baba Bulleh Shah

Na Mai Jogi

20"X40"

Tu khush hai ke tujhko haasil hai

Mai khush hoo ke mere hissey mein nahi

Sahil se bhi maujain uthti hai

Khamosh bhi toofan hotein hai

Hazrat Zaheen Shah Taaji

In a private collection. Singapore.

Pahunch Gaya

20"X40"

Pahunch gaya hoo

Dare yaar tak mukaddar se

Varna

Sab mere sajde idhar udhar hote

Hazrat Shah Niaz

Oils and Inks on Canvas and Board

Size : 19" X 24" (Framed)

Vision

The creation sees through the eyes of the Creator

Vignettes

The Unrevealed sometimes manifests in myriad ways

Yaar ko hamne jabaja dekha

Kahi zaahir kahi chhupa dekha

- Hazrat Shah Niaz

Distance

Review your own self. Are you any closer?

Jeda aapne naal hisaab nai karda

Udey naal hisaab ki karna hoo

- Baba Bulleh Shah

I search everywhere for a premise which is inside my home.

Jangal dhundiya bela dundhiya

Dundhiya main saara jahaan

Sade wede aaya kar

Yaar suboh shaam

- Baba Bulleh Shah

Essence

Lets go to the land where we are known for what we are

Chal we Bulleya, Utthey chaliye

Jitthey saare annhey

Na koi saadi zaat pachhaney

Na koi sannu manney

- Baba Bulleh Shah

Diffused

I see You in everything the manifest and the diffused

My Universe

Just one sign is everything

Capability

Capability is determined by your actions not your potential

Reflection

I saw my own reflection in Creation

Unmentioned

Between Being and Becoming

Vibrant

Your Radiance is the garden

Vibrant

One look from You intoxicates all Creation

Unki harime naaz kaha aur ham kahan

Naksho nigaar pardaaye dar dekhte rahe

- Rumi

Jogia Dhoop - Nature Collection

Says Geeta, “In Jogia Dhoop, I have picked up some of these pearls of Mohd. Hazrat Mohani, Baba Bulleh Shah, Hazrat Shah Niaz, Hazrat Zaheen Shah Taaji, Baba Farid and Rumi as the inspiring force. For example some of the thoughts born of Baba Bulleh Shah has such an intense and immense depth and beauty that it strikes a chord. It emerges from the same base as of a true Zen master or a singing shepherd of the hills who has only innocence to offer in his prayers.

The treatment is delicately graded . The succession of hues, one dissolving into another suggests the Kalam resounding, appearing and fading into space. In these paintings, calligraphy is imprinted as a murmur.

Jogia Dhoop – the saffron sunshine – a sunshine of discovery, of joy – is a celebration of the Sufi movement as much as an exhibition of paintings.

”

JOGIA DHOOP
March, 2004
A series of Calligraphed paintings
Based on Sufiana Kalam GEETA VADHERA
JOGIA DHOOP copyright © 2004 - Geeta Vadhera – geetavadhera@hotmail.com
Sufiana Kalam – The words of the Sufi sages- Simple words - for everyone to understand. There isn’t any pretension here – these words come direct from one heart and invite you to take a leap from the circumference to your very center – your core being. The circumference (The capacity) and the center (is the essential start point) between the outer and inner world, between mind and no mind, between matter and consciousness. This bridge between the two is the basic value system that emerges from within. The self could be enclosed, encapsulated, till we experience, explore or come out , giving life to life.
Getting close to the basic satya of consciousness and then it takes off from there, it happens-it’s the Joy of Baba Bulleh Shah, the profoundness of Hillaj Mansoor- the simplicity of Baba Farid. Not living like walking graves but most meaningfully existing is to be next to life. The whole joy is to identify – and experience the transparency within. Concentration illuminates illusions and the true nature of reality appears , emerges which is the ultimate experience of
profoundness. Their poetry the Sufiana kalam be it in Urdu, Punjabi,Hindi, Sindhi or Saraiki it has layers and layers of pealing. The pealing off – process of the very self (JO KUJ ANDAR TAINDA O SAB TAA DE ) – empty out your self as
much as you can. This understanding could be easy to a child and difficult to a sage..

There is no temple other than existence itself first. Whole is what is holy, and this whole journey is like back home. From the point to the point. Its sublime- Its not a journey from here to there but on the contrary it is from there to here. We are invited to go from “Then” to “Now” – where there is a meeting of moment to the soul. Beyond the physical surface or the objective information, lies the Real , the transformation which clearly defines that the knower is bigger than the knowledge . knowledge is the first contact. It can explain, analyse Christianity , Hinduism , Buddhism But it can not produce a Buddha or a Jesus.
Wisdom is not knowledge but it is the Insight the clarity, the basic value system which brings profoundness. To Know is to know all. To Know is to Be because then the knower and the known are no longer separate. The knower is the known the seer is the seen the observer is the observed. The Arabic word ‘Nafs’ means total freed self, Sufi self and it also means a pure basic breath which is such a basic truth. Beyond physical reality and physical time and space there is this all-encompassing self or the greater self, which is inseparable from cognition. I seemed to stand outside of my limited self. Moving backwards, forwards and experiencing entirety within.

In Jogia Dhoop, I have picked up some of these pearls of Mohd. Hazrat Mohani , Baba Bulleh shah, Hazrat Shah Niaz, Hazrat Zaheen shah Taaji, Baba Farid and Rumi as the inspiring force. For example some of the thoughts born of Baba Bulleh Shah (1680-1757) The 17th century legend born in Kasur (now a part of Pakistan) has such an intense and immense depth and beauty that it strikes a chord. It emerges from the same base as of a true Zen master or a singing shepherd of the hills who has only innocence to offer in his prayers.
A search for this innocence, this silence is the source of the flowing music in my works- created in multiple tones of lilac, grey or dusky dusty siennas fading in time. Sometimes a spread of movement inspired by the Raag Vistaar of (Indian music) or a small couplet, a bandish of a ghazal – the flow of tones into space is behind the visual experience of the paintings. The treatment is delicately graded . The succession of hues, one dissolving into an other suggests the Kalam resounding appearing and fading into space. The potential of the oils and the fluid transparency is a medium handled closely enough to the selected mood of the works.In these paintings, calligraphy is imprinted as a murmur . the sound-resounds. Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), speaking of a spiritual encounter with Rembrandt,says, “It moved me deeply , The flow of colour has dark and dissolve approach which has effect of antiphony (Purely musical term) It evokes the sound within me.” JOGIA DHOOPI rejoice and dedicate this series of Sufi works to those pure movements which created these paintings.

These paintings are from the Jogia Dhoop Collection, a selection of paintings based on the Sufiana Kalam.

Sufiana Kalam – The words of the Sufi sages- Simple words - for everyone to understand. There isn’t any pretension here – these words come direct from one heart and invite you to take a leap from the circumference to your very center – your core being. The circumference (The capacity) and the center (is the essential start point) between the outer and inner world, between mind and no mind, between matter and consciousness. This bridge between the two is the basic value system that emerges from within. The self could be enclosed, encapsulated, till we experience, explore or come out , giving life to life. Getting close to the basic satya of consciousness and then it takes off from there, it happens-it’s the Joy of Baba Bulleh Shah, the profoundness of Hillaj Mansoor- the simplicity of Baba Farid. Not living like walking graves but most meaningfully existing is to be next to life. The whole joy is to identify – and experience the transparency within.

Concentration illuminates illusions and the true nature of reality appears , emerges which is the ultimate experience of profoundness. Their poetry the Sufiana kalam be it in Urdu, Punjabi,Hindi, Sindhi or Saraiki it has layers and layers of pealing. The pealing off – process of the very self (JO KUJ ANDAR TAINDA O SAB TAA DE ) – empty out your self as much as you can. This understanding could be easy to a child and difficult to a sage..

There is no temple other than existence itself first. Whole is what is holy, and this whole journey is like back home. From the point to the point. Its sublime- Its not a journey from here to there but on the contrary it is from there to here. We are invited to go from “Then” to “Now” – where there is a meeting of moment to the soul. Beyond the physical surface or the objective information, lies the Real , the transformation which clearly defines that the knower is bigger than the knowledge . knowledge is the first contact. It can explain, analyse Christianity , Hinduism , Buddhism But it can not produce a Buddha or a Jesus. Wisdom is not knowledge but it is the Insight the clarity, the basic value system which brings profoundness. To Know is to know all. To Know is to Be because then the knower and the known are no longer separate. The knower is the known the seer is the seen the observer is the observed. The Arabic word ‘Nafs’ means total freed self, Sufi self and it also means a pure basic breath which is such a basic truth. Beyond physical reality and physical time and space there is this all-encompassing self or the greater self, which is inseparable from cognition. I seemed to stand outside of my limited self. Moving backwards, forwards and experiencing entirety within.

In Jogia Dhoop, I have picked up some of these pearls of Mohd. Hazrat Mohani , Baba Bulleh shah, Hazrat Shah Niaz, Hazrat Zaheen shah Taaji, Baba Farid and Rumi as the inspiring force. For example some of the thoughts born of Baba Bulleh Shah (1680-1757) The 17th century legend born in Kasur (now a part of Pakistan) has such an intense and immense depth and beauty that it strikes a chord. It emerges from the same base as of a true Zen master or a singing shepherd of the hills who has only innocence to offer in his prayers.

A search for this innocence, this silence is the source of the flowing music in my works- created in multiple tones of lilac, grey or dusky dusty siennas fading in time. Sometimes a spread of movement inspired by the Raag Vistaar of (Indian music) or a small couplet, a bandish of a ghazal – the flow of tones into space is behind the visual experience of the paintings.

The treatment is delicately graded . The succession of hues, one dissolving into an other suggests the Kalam resounding appearing and fading into space. The potential of the oils and the fluid transparency is a medium handled closely enough to the selected mood of the works.In these paintings, calligraphy is imprinted as a murmur . the sound-resounds. Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), speaking of a spiritual encounter with Rembrandt,says, “It moved me deeply , The flow of colour has dark and dissolve approach which has effect of antiphony (Purely musical term) It evokes the sound within me.”

I rejoice and dedicate this series of Sufi works to those pure movements which created these paintings.

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