Kashi City of Infinity connects Caribbean to EPIC World Heritage
Dr Kris Rampersad 
Explore EPIC Landscapes and Mindscapes of World Heritage and History sneak peak India
At the culmination of Ganesh Utsav celebrations there was a phenomenal ntermingling of waters of the Ganga River and Caribbean Sea when celebrants poured the Ganga Jhal/Waters presented by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar to symbolically connect South Atlantic and South Pacific and South Asian waters resonate with more ancient interconnections. I would have much more to say on this with the unfolding of my newest initiative,
See details in this post linked here: EPIC Landscapas & Mindscapes of World Heritage & History linked here.
See Youtube video linked here
Tribute to the Ancestors
It is this special period of Pitri Paksh and evocation of the ancestors that I present this novel initiative, with a sneak peak into the EPIC Landscapes and Mindscapes of Ancestral India, drawn from my explorations earlier this year. We will expand on these and develop the various dimensions together. and make contact to get involved through creative partnerships linked here .
It is fitting to return to the epicentre of our ancestral culture, the City of Kashi. Here is a sneak peak into some elements of that experience.
Kashi City of Infinite
Smoke from lighted waving deeyas dissipate in air from aarti at dusk, then at dawn again. The sun’s golden glow fills the river floods over the ancient steps of the ghats.
The mundane and divine intertwine in an eternal tale, threads of a cosmic tapestry, answering all of life’s enigma, simply, by its presence that resonates through time – past, present, future.
Kashi pulses from the first primeval sound, a prolonged AUM from the dawn of time, accumulating the compound energies of ages, resonating through time to infinity.
Trekking through ancient prehistoric landscapes from Konark Ancient Sun Temple the Sangam at MahaKumbh Mela in my quest for where knowledge lives, I find answers resounding through the landscapes, fusing the knots of our interconnections and our global heritage – a sneak peak.
A teaser, in video and verse of the unfolding MotherContinent – The MultiMedia MicroEpic of the Anthropocene churns up new linkages across unexplored landscapes, hidden in plain sight – and some preliminary insights
Attached To Kashi
I come to Kashi, from the world to detach
Instead to Kashi’s other-worldly anchors I become attached
‘Does knowledge live here?’ I ask, in bewildering tone
Knowledge bowl-in-hand seeking elusive Truths, through globe I roam.
MahaKumbh Mela When Planets Align
At MahaKumbh junction’d Sangam with seekers I convene,
Seven sacred soak in Sangam with Gods and Deities, I dip in
To Kashi, To Kashi Vande Bharat whistle-stops haul me in
On pilgrims’ ancient routes with seekers to truth city roll in
Of Saint & Sadhus
With saints and sadhus I ascend Kashi’s trident peaks,
Find knowledge a-dwelling, secrets folded when knees bend, meek.
’Cross tow’ring temple peaks, mandir bells, poked, to heavens appeal
Truths, long-hidden, unseen, suddenly reveal their miracle
Ancient secrets they toll, life and death’s eternal cycle
I come to Kashi from the world to detach,
Instead to Kashi’s lofty reaching, I become latched
Manikarnika Ghat flare’s flames of life’s fleeting breath,
A threshold ’twixt ’n’ ’tween new life and old, birth and death
Exchanging mortal body like old worn-out clothes
I shed earthly garments, don moksha’s ’lightened saffron robes
At Dashashwamedh Ghat, I alight from boat’s lanquid sway,
Light leafy lamps, ancient chants flame into night’s mystic air.
With Tulsi I sing sagacious hymns to wisdom, life, faith eternal blaze
Death’s smoke disperse ’cross Ganga’s shore aloft Hanuman-ji’s skyward gaze
Washing off past karma in Ganga’s sun-kissed glow
Out of body, soul ’lightened with wind God flow
Aloft sinewed alleys twist in serpentine grace,
View winding meandering rivers and lanes through time’s ageless race.
Tear drops into lotha a river of jhal pour,
Ganga aarti’s infinite loop wave in unbroken cycles, now, as times of yore
Conchs call out from muted minute to infinite time
An ocean of milk flows gracefully from eyes divine
Ganga from Shiv’s mane source flows this Goddess divine,
Binding earthly beings to realms beyond, Himalayan high
Tulsidas Hanuman-ji praise, Lord Rama dharshan receives
Epic Ramcharitramanas and Chalisa chant here, new rhymes conceive
Third eye opens new dawn, mandir bells ring out chants and praise
From sunrise to sunset, then sunset to sunrise again melodies raise
I come to Kashi from the world to detach,
Instead to Kashi’s immortal rhymes ’n’ rhythms I become attached
Enrapt in ancient wisdom, vast future unfurl
Secured in Kashi’s embrace, so ancient so bold.
I came to Kashi, to leave the world behind,
And found its rhymes n rhythms already twined with mine
(To Be Continued)
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