Of Everything and Nothing

For this exhibition, Revati uses seeds as a metaphor for consciousness: it is both beginning and end, life and death, nothing and everything — the reality that underlies everything, manifest and unmanifest. Pure consciousness has no religion or ideology, no gender, no sexuality, no race, no age and no nationality. Just as the mighty tree arises out of the seed, so consciousness is the seed of life, the power behind the manifest universe. Descartes said, I think, therefore I am. Advaita Vedanta says, I am, therefore I think. If humanity drew some inspiration from the humble seed, which transforms and gives its fruits selflessly, perhaps we could learn to give selflessly, curb our insatiable greed, and transform our world into a place of abundance rather than scarcity.