Anandas paintings have great power because the images she paints are received during deep meditation. Their purpose is to raise the energy in your home and to uplift your consciousness. They help to awaken and develop the divine energy within each of us.

Some People are moved to tears on seeing these paintings. They feel an energy and a loving presence that touches their soul deeply and intimately. This is the highest purpose of these paintings : to touch your heart and uplift your soul.

A dilemma I experience when attempting to paint a vision is how to depict a Being of Light with material colors ! Paint cannot do justice to the brilliance and light of these Divine Beings. I can only give you a slight glimpse of their amazing beauty.

Oftentimes I am touched by a deep experience while I am working on a painting. In fact, the pictures seem to come alive in three dimensions and I feel connected to a higher presence that is so powerful, that I get into bliss or ecstasy and I have to stop for a while...

The Divine is omnipresent and formless. But it may appear in a form to you: a form that you can understand and that is most dear to you.

I would like to share my visions of Divinity with you. May it uplift and inspire you!

In the mid 1990s my spiritual Master Sri Sri Ravi Shankar commissioned me to do 2 paintings - one of them of the Parashakti Devi. He asked me to show „All Devis in One“ - the Divine Mother of the Universe ! He told me what he wanted so I started to paint her - 1.70m tall! Often while painting I found myself in a state of bliss...

The painting was for the International Art of Living Ashram in Bangalore where it stands completed today.

The painting of Lakshmi was used for the Navaratri Pujas and for celebrations at the Art of Living Ashram. Navaratri is a period of 9 days dedicated to the worship of the Divine Mother. During these celebrations many people reported seeing the painting become 3 dimensional and radiate light.

Some people reported a sudden rise of their income after placing the Lakshmi painting in their home or shop.

Why should we only think of God as Father ? God could also be in the form of a Mother Goddess. Many cultures and religions have had feminine characters that were considered as Goddesses.

In Christianity we have the Madonna. Buddhism has Tara, the Egyptians had Isis and many of the old European religions and mythologies celebrated Goddesses.

Hinduism has 3 major Devis or Goddesses:

• Saraswati - the Goddess of Veda or Knowledge, Science, Art, Music and Speech.
• Lakshmi - the Goddess of Fortune, Wealth, Beauty and Abundance. There are 8 types of Wealth that she can bestow.
• Durga -the Goddess of Protection against all evil, the invincible power of consciousness which destroys all stress and negativity.

Because we become what we think about all the time. All the impressions that we take in during the day while working, in traffic, or when we watch TV are the very thoughts and feelings that become our future!

We are all starving for beautiful impressions around us - knowingly or unknowingly.

One day we were sitting in Gurujis room at Bangalore ashram. Someone gave Guruji a picture of an eagle. He admired it: "Look! Isn't it beautiful! One should hang it on the wall!" Then he pondered for a moment and said: "No - better not! Otherwise one may become an eagle next life!!! The pictures which you have around you and see every day create very deep impressions in your mind... And the deepest impressions of this life create our future!"

That's why the pictures around us, which we see every day, are very important and should be positive or Divine!

As you can see, incorporating my pictures into the landscape of your life will make it easier to reinforce positive results in your life.

It is a simple truth: when our energy level or frequency is high, we feel, active, joyful, peaceful, and optimistic and have an increased sense of well-being.

When our energy level is low, we feel powerless, hopeless, stressed or depressed.

YES, energy does matter!

According to Feng Shui or Vastu these paintings could help to improve different areas of your life:

Paintings for...

• Wealth and success: Lakshmi = Goddess of Wealth, Good Fortune & Abundance
• Happy Love: Lakshmi-Narayana, Radha-Krishna
• Mothers & children: Madonna with child
• Wish-fulfillment: Devi Parashakti
• Protection: Durga

Meditating on a painting enables one to get in contact with the energy associated with the Deva or Devi and is easier than meditation on abstract concepts. Such energy "stored" in my paintings can facilitate meditation and helps awaken that energy within you.

You may even use a candle and some meditative music and gaze at the painting. An inner conversation or a prayer may start happening and you may feel its energy as though it is alive...

If you feel uplifted, comforted, prayerful, blessed or loved, if it makes you peaceful and quiet and your heart opens up, it has fulfilled its purpose.

However, in deep meditation the eyes will be closed and one should transcend, go beyond all names and forms. The name, the form or the mantra is just the door to Infinity...