Wrapping your body in a sheath of gold
To create this stunning kavacha requires a flight of the imagination.
You have to imagine this beautiful body and then sculpt it in that most elastic (and fragile) of materials: gold.
Creativity requires many things, but imagination is key. To connect disparate things, to see what others cannot see.
The sacred and sensual
Nowhere is this more true than in the way Indians use jewellery.
As a sacred offering to God and themselves.
As a way to honour people and events.
In celebration of the craft of jewellery making.
The tools to create jewels
Indian artisans are remarkably imaginative. And….well, intuitive. They even elevated snuff boxes into objects of art.
How are these karigars so gifted in their imagination?
Before he began Apple, Steve Jobs spent seven months in India, seeking enlightenment.
To understand
Along the way, he discovered something about how Indian people process the world.
“The people in the Indian countryside do not use their intellect like we do,” he said. “They use their intuition instead, and their intuition is far more developed than in the rest of the world.”
To see the world in a grain of sand
Intuition is the ability to see beyond the normal, to connect disparate things, to get visions from God.
All of that takes us into the realm of the sacred.
When the gifted mathematician Ramanujam came up with this number theories, he told his English friend Hardy that they were visions gifts by Goddess Namagiri, his hometown’s goddess.
Sacred gift: to see beyond the obvious
In a quote attributed to Einstein, he said: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
“Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.”
Steve Jobs
