All That Was And is

'You are the mover and the movement.

You move even in your stillness

you move. And you are

the moved who is far away

the unmoved spark of intimacy

far inside you far away from us

and yet it is you alone whom we find

nearest to ourselves;

you are where the heart is

the bodies claim to be.'

All That Was And Is Bibhu Padhi's mystical collection of poems is based on the ancient Indian sacred texts the Upanishads. Each poem is a non-cerebral response on a single Upanishadic mantra. They are quiet like the mantras themselves trying to unravel and in turn define the Supreme and its relationship with the world and the individual or the jiva. Through these lyrical meditations everything is absorbed into a dreamlike consciousness.