Rung Dey – A Visual Transcendental Prayer
The term ‘Rung Dey’ can be found in almost every major mystic, religious and wisdom tradition throughout the world, spanning all ages. It points to a shift in human experience/realization on the levels of perceiving, feeling & understanding. One learns to align/submit oneself to a higher dimension of life and experiences the entire world as a whole-a single, rhythmic, effortless flow of Totality.
This prayer shifts human consciousness from complexity towards simplicity towards our Essentiality. One starts experiencing existence as one organism- where everything is interconnected.
Rumi describes it beautifully in these words:
“This is love:
to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First, to let go of life.
In the end, to take a step without feet;
to regard this world as invisible,
and to disregard what appears to be the self.
Heart, I said, what a gift it has been
to enter this circle of lovers,
to see beyond seeing itself,
to reach and feel within the breast.”
This body of work is a deeper representational understanding of prayer and meditation for those of us who are now mature and conscious and have the courage to dive within to understand the ‘true meaning’. A distance-less path where one(me) tries to understand oneself and the Supreme One(God/Reality) with which one is trying to connect. Along the way, one also understands what the connection feels like when all dualities and vibrational effects are removed and what pure love (attention) feels like without these subtle veils of thoughts and emotions. This purity of love (attention) is the force that can heal our wounds and results in the transcendence of body, mind, and world.
Mudassar Manzoor
WORKS
Rung Dey, 2021
Treated Silver, Gouache & Pigment on Wasli Paper
28 x 42 inches
Tasting the Ocean, 2021
Gold, Silver, Gouache & Pigment on Wasli Paper
41.5 x 29 inches
Transparency of Being – II, 2021
Gouache & Pigment on Wasli Paper
14.25 x 20.5 inches
Transparency of Being – I, 2021
Gouache & Pigment on Wasli Paper
14.5 x 20.5 inches
Perfume of the Self – III, 2021
Gouache & Pigment on Wasli Paper
13 x 20 inches
End-less-ness, 2021
Treated Silver, Gouache & Pigment on Wasli Paper
29 x 20.5 inches
Deep in Journey, 2021
Gold, Gouache & Pigment on Wasli Paper
29 x 20 inches
A Blissful Answer, 2021
Gouache, Pigment & Gold on Wasli Paper
20 x 29 inches
Perfume of the Self – II, 2021
Gouache & Pigment on Wasli Paper
28.5 x 19.5 inches
Perfume of the Self – I, 2021
Gouache & Pigment on Wasli Paper
20 x 29 inches
INSTALLATION VIEWS
OPENING NIGHT