Anitya-अनित्या -Change The Only Permanent

Images of this story are being shot in different regions & countries of the ‘Tibetan Belt’ of Himalayas including Zanskar in northern India, Ladakh, Kashmir, Lahaul, Spiti, Uttrakhand, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and  Arunachal Pradesh. Anitya or Anicca (Pali) means impermanence, it underlies all Buddhist thought and practice and is the foundation of Buddhist understanding of reality. Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, proclaimed that there is no permanence anywhere. In his enlightenment experience he witnessed the arising and disappearing of entire universe systems. He recognized that all things are comprised of conditioned states and that there is no permanent essence to anything.

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.