 Namaskar thank you for taking my question I was wondering if you could speak a little bit about the role of the artist or arts role after you take up this practice or pursuit this path. When you move into this surrender state or the more you move into it it's not like a goal you reached it's a growing and deepening and widening and increasingly vibrant and potent process the more every layer of consciousness deepens, widens, strengthens and therefore the expressions of each of those layers of consciousness deepens, widens and strengthens. So when you tune in to the source the very materiality of your system becomes more pliable. The cells of your body become more conscious because you're present here and now and you're you're moving with awareness into the cells of the body into the materiality and it goes laterally outward rather than leaving the system and going out of the system you're in here and now and making the cells of your body more conscious and therefore the entire body is more pliable more flexible stronger also moving upward from that materiality you move into the emotional part of the being so the ability to master the emotions and yet experience them in a depth and a strength and a vibrancy which is impossible to imagine otherwise it really is because what happens is that the awareness is sort of infusing itself into that realm of consciousness so when you have an experience in the emotional it will become much more much deeper much more vibrant much more powerful the same will happen to the thinker you're a writer you're a creator of concepts of whatever kind it may be from being a mathematician to being a physicist all of those abilities at conceptual clarity strengthen the very rational in itself becomes more powerful stronger more capable more precise more alert and then moving up further into the transformative into the supraconceptual the ability at art the ability in the occult these are all the areas of the supraconceptual an artist is not a thinker for an artist to actually be an artist they have to stop thinking in a way they have to become transformative and this tuning into source will just make you more of an artist in the sense that you will know how to express the artist in you in a more precise coherent and relatable way but give you an example like a painter who wants to express the spiritual experience would in a non self-realized state paint and an angel with wings flying in a beautiful landscape an artist that is in self-realization process needs just to draw one single line that can be a mountain or a rose turn the other way around much more expressive much more precise much more able to to transmit something which is not conceptual whether it's music or poetry even in poetry the more you are in a state of self-realization in that process consciously and in awareness the more that poetry becomes potent it translates something and transmits something that conceptual words literature can't do so the artist becomes more of an artist more capable of that kind of a translation actually of a transformative experience to the other person people who could barely write a sentence properly are eloquent because they're able to tune in and in that state of surrender these faculties are just magnified and and and I've seen it I've seen it happen in front of my eyes over the years you cannot really be an artist of greatness if you're not in a self-realization process and I don't mean the greatness of the number of people who know your work because that fades away with time in my own lifetime I've seen artists who are very very big and now they're like forgotten because it's not timeless it's not able to hold through over the decades and over lifetimes centuries that's only possible for those who have some self-realization some form of it or some degree of it and if you're conscious about it try to imagine where you'll reach whatever you are painter writer whatever it may be musician so bend down surrender surrender surrender tune into your center that is crucial in this sadhana in this process thank you