In Search Of The Absolute

Images of this story are being shot in the beautiful North Himalayan belt of Uttarakhand , Himachal Pradesh, Lahaul Spiti. This Himalayan region borders Tibet in the North and Nepal in the East. These places are highly spiritual and have been home to monks and ascetic from time immemorial. There are archaeological remains that show the existence of an early Vedic culture existing here dating back 8000 years or more.

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.