Nirvana निर्वाणा through the Potter’s Wheel

Pottery is in line with the Divine. All creations made by hand are spiritual, since they involve a certain degree of meditation and skill. Pottery is the only art form that constitutes all the five elements our body is made of- water, fire, earth, air and ether. It helps you find a harmony and inner peace.

When you sit at the potter’s wheel, you are directly connected to Him. With your eyes closed, the soft, moist ball of clay moving freely in your palms-your mind and clay fully centred-you experience an unparalleled, soulful bliss.

Patience, precision, persistence, detachment, determination and happiness are the virtues that pottery enforces or teaches us and these are the very qualities required for a balanced, content life, which leads you to that ultimate happiness-nirvana निर्वाणा. As in pottery, there is a right time and stage for everything, so it is in life. Things happen when they are meant to happen; life takes it own course. You cannot expedite it. You cannot proceed and progress unless you are focused. Similarly, you cannot create anything on the potter’s wheel unless the ball of clay is fully centred on the wheel.

Pottery is not only an art form but a therapy and a kind of meditation. It is a catharsis, a way of making thoughts tangible and thus, a method of touching your inner creative. Self and expressing it spontaneously in the real World. Although, the result in pottery are elusive, as in life, the final product is breathtakingly attractive and satisfying- just like attaining Nirvana निर्वाणा or Moksha मोक्ष.

So go beyond the demands of everyday life and give yourself time and space to connect to your inner Self and free your creativity, in to-day’s forced multitasking environment, the feel of clay is like a breath of fresh air. Breathe it.