The protagonist, who is making the journey, is not any particular man from any culture, place or history. He is the universal man, of whom all human beings are parts. The concept of this man is very similar to the concept of the “whole man” as in the Hegelian philosophy.  He, like James Joyce’s Ulysses, is perpetually repeating the wanderings of Odysseus, who is reincarnated in the living man. He is the mythical archetype, who internally reincarnates within each person, and bears the spirit of eternal Odysseus beyond the external characteristics of any individual culture. Each living person is a copy of the one or many who have already lived as others and repeats the journey of the previous characters who have lived before in history. Like Joyce’s Bloom, beneath the superficialities of the individual personalities, each person is a part of the mythical archetype rather than an individual.

As Nietzsche’s Zarathustra exclaimed, every existence is entangled in an eternal recurrence of the one that has existed before as a part of the eternal wanderer. Like Odysseus every person, as a part of the mythical man,  is striving to escape the wheel turning between the shore of the islands where life burgeon in opulence  driven by the power of the sun and the world of the dead sinking in night. In this eternal recurrence there is storm and wind over the sea bringing ceaseless turmoil of history where the universal wanderer appears and disappears wearing the masks of innumerable individual characters.

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The structures I discovered were truly fractals, as Mandelbrot had speculated. Very similar ring like structures were embedded inside the nucleus itself. This ring, inside the nuclear ring, enclosed an even smaller ring in turn. It became a tremendously fascinating journey that led me to discover the universe without any beginning and end. The universe has never appeared at any moment of time in the past. So there is no question of coming from somewhere in the past or going to somewhere in the future. It lives in eternity while carrying an unchanging design as its foundation of existence. Through the manifestation of the most perfect order, it can self- regulate all that are coming into forms and disappearing outside the realm of forms by a processes which we call death and birth. It rises from itself and becomes manifest in form and then through renewal of its parts it remains ever-unchanging in all spheres from the tiniest structures to the largest that can ever form. It is the only way the universe can self-create itself from itself and thus exist forever.

In this timeless universe the most central dynamics lies in the way every structure regulates inflow and outflow. This mechanism is enacted with the help of a three-armed spiral form, which sits at the centre of all cosmic objects. It ejects material along the spiral arms and then creates a mechanism to attract the outgoing flows, so that all outflows merge with the incoming streams and return to the centre again. The three-armed spiral is a fractal structure, which is embedded inside a large spiral, which in turn is embedded inside an even larger spiral and so on. In every scale the similar mechanism of outflow returning as inflow are activated while creating an extremely complex entanglement of filaments knotted together.

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It is a story of the life of a nuclear physicist and a cosmologist, who encountered a mental phenomenon which he interpreted as an encounter with God. While he was doing his Masters degree in Physics, he accidentally came across a spiritual phenomenon that seemed bizarre. More he grappled to understand if the source of the phenomenon was his own brain or not, more he sank in a mental quagmire. Thus he entered a realm where he “heard” the voice of God, who gradually took control of his mind.  Since then he started communicating with an incomprehensible being, who seemed to exist outside the realm of reason and rationality. The inner being became his guide, who helped him to write an epic relating the story of the wandering of the universal man, of whom all human beings are parts.  Then he opened in his mind a vista to unknown territories of the mind through the works of arts. While engaged in a project called “Art without Beginning and End”, he discovered a new vision to explore the physical world. In the end he discovered a new universe, where time existed in a timeless arena. When the tasks that the inner guide had endowed on him were fulfilled, he found himself entrapped in an alien world, where he felt himself encapsulated in a reality totally different from what others called the reality of life. In this multi-layered reality he became a lonely traveler in a colorful visionary world that spanned from the microscopic realm of the molecules to the largest structures in the cosmos. 

The ecstasies of entering the deeper realms of the mind and discovering the mystery of existence were again and again mired by tragedies on the way.  He lost his only son on the mountain top in the Alps orchestrated by absurd coincidences of events followed by a premonition of death -as if everything was predestined from beforehand.  Again and again suffering and despair followed. Believing that the source of suffering was the psychological mess created by the belief in the spiritual world, every time he tried to tear down the spiritual world with scientific rationality, calamities followed, which led him to submit his will to the will of God that seemed to be steering the course of his life.

 The manuscript is a story of a real encounter and a drama experienced by the author. He uses his scientific mind in dissecting and analyzing the spiritual world, while keeping alive the power of doubt and the possibility that brain could be a computer of immense power that can delude the mind. While he reveals the possible ways to understand and interpret the spiritual experiences, the readers who wonder about the question “Does God exist or not?” will get new perspectives to understand God by using one`s own mind and brain as the portal to the spiritual world.

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Through paintings I am making an attempt to rebuild the image of the mythical, surreal and cosmic man. In one of these paintngs an artist has fallen asleep in despair in front of a canvas. He is holding a brush in his right hand, which is tied with the axons entangled in a complexly knitted neural network of the brain. While painting on a canvas the image of the jumbled network of the brain wirings he has fallen asleep. The hand has become so tightly bound to the neural network that he cannot paint any longer, and therefore, in despair, he has sunk in dream. He is seated on the brain stem, surrounded by the left and right cortex. The artist, the brain and the canvas, where the neural network is painted, are in turn, entangled in a cosmic network, which is formed of galaxies. He is dreaming of the return of the power, who will release him from this captivation in the brain, which, in turn, is entangled in the network of the universe in an incomprehensibly complex way. An angel stands behind the dreaming artist. She holds in her hand a magic wand of creation and directs the dreaming artist to move towards the cosmos.

This painting is the central piece of the project called “The Window of Light”.  Beside it lies another painting where the man is breaking out of the captivation in a Hall of Time, where slaughtered sheep are hanging from the roof. He is making an attempt to escape the Darwinian slaughterer by breaking the glass panes that separate the Time Hall of Illusion from the realm where the Golden Buddha, surrounded by monks, is meditating about the transcendental world. Between these two realms lies a sea illumined by a golden orb. Beside that there is another painting titled “The Window of Light” where a man, sitting in a dark realm, is meditating. The canvas is divided into two worlds separated by a wall. Through the opening of a window existing on the wall, an intense beam of light has entered the realm of the meditating man. It illumines a head that spans the entire dark realm. Through this partially transparent head, the neural network of the brain is visible. The man meditates by sitting in the shadow cast by his huge head. On the other side, from where the light has entered the window, there lies an illumined realm of the senses covered by mountains, fjords and a sky burning in an ethereal sunset. Through the window through light enters to illumine his brain. The meditating monk gazes at the other side of the reality where human beings are swimming in the fjord filled with swirling blood streams.

The project “The Window of Light” is planned to consist of four such sections – possibly around hundred paintings in total. The ideas of the project rose out of the realization that, may be, delusion, what we all possess, is the soundest basis of meaning, if there exists any meaning at all!  We are all prisoners of our own experiences and delusions. Without changing the genetic foundation of the individual life, may be, there exists no other way but to accept what one is, as a part of a biological specie, who carries an individual trait.  To try to transcend, and seek meaning beyond this biological and existential confinement, may be, is nothing but meaningless.

 The first section is about the encounter telling the story how God has entered the consciousness and gradually overpowered the will. It starts with the story of a child listening to the whispering coming from nature, which stirred his imagination to believe that someone “out there” was whispering messages to his mind. Then the imperceptible whisperer appeared as whirling waves stirring the mind and became an integral part of the processes generated by the brain.  In this section I want to reconstruct the invisible being, who has appeared as a father, a friend and a guide.  I want to go back to the memories and see in more clear details the “face” of that companion, who has baffled and puzzled me, brought experiences of great ecstasies, and walked by my side as an imperceptible shadow.

 The paintings of the other section depict the existential drama since that encounter.  This confrontation with the spiritual world has unleashed rich fantasies, dreams and imaginations as well as driven the mind to seek answers of the mysteries that surround life with the power of knowledge, critical reflections and scientific arguments. It has led me to search the clue of the mystery of the invisible world into plants, flowers, insects and molecules, in the laws of physics and chemistry, as well in the universe. With the curiosity of a child I have lifted every corner of the heart to look for the hidden world, which may lie outside the domains of science. This hidden realm has been source of creativity. It has inspired me to understand the working of the brain and the material basis of the mind, as well as revealed to me the incomprehensible realms of the artists, the musicians and the poets. It has elevated me to the sphere where I have seen myself as one with the eternal self – as a wanderer searching beauty and love as my way of coming home.

I have started “The Window of Light” by making the paintings belonging to the second section called “Creativity”.  Here the cosmos is one with the reality of this room. Here I listen to the music where muses play the golden cosmic harp,  watch the ballerinas resurrecting from the world of the dead as golden swans while welcoming the mortal eyes to the realm where there is no death and birth. Here winged white horse Pegasus accompanies the muses, who inspire the mortal poet writing about the immortal world.  Here the sculptor hews out the face of musicians out of crystals while on the other corner of the crystal studio blood ooze from his torso.

 The third section is about the existential crisis that follows the period of creativity.  It is the story when the bewildered man rises against God and tries to bring down the spiritual world.  The paintings of this section deals with the terror unleashed by a meaningless world.  Despair and mental conflicts cloud his paths.

 In the last section “Walking inside the Mirror”, the cosmos opens and a mirror emerges.  The man sees an image of himself as multiple in One.  He faces the formless world as himself imaged in the mirror as a man standing in front of God.  In the mirror he sees the cosmic ocean flowing through clusters of galaxies in the great cosmic body to which all are parts.  As he watches the cosmos, the biological world streams through the cells in the brain, and transmutes into the body. He realizes the presence of the Buddha-body of compassion and love, which encompasses all living beings.

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Born in Calcutta in 1945.  Educated as a scientist. Came to Norway in 1971 as a post-doctoral fellow in theoretical nuclear physics. Since early 1980s he became interested in cosmology and from late 1990s got drawn to chaos theory and non-linear dynamics.  In 1999 he proposed a new theory of the creation of the universe where the cosmic  structures are built in fractal hierarchy following a universal dynamics and a cosmic design. Since then he has been engaged in communicating this theory of ”Timelessness in Time”.

He was brought up in a family with strong interests in literature and philosophy of the East and the West. He wrote potery since his childhood. His first literary-philosophical book was about the death of his only son, who was bereaved of life in an accident on the Alps in 1990. After this accident he left scientific research for some years and engaged himself in writing an epic called “Tathagata`s Journey” about the  wandering of the universal man, who comes and goes life after life.  Through this writing  he tries to grasp the meaning of life and death and the puropose of the journey of life while drawing inspirations from the epics, mythologies and the philosophies of the East and the West.

Though educated as a scientist, he has experienced the existence of a supernatural world since his childhood. It first appeared through poetry and works of arts. In an attempt to grasp the nature of the supernatural he kept his hobby as a painter since childhood. He began with abstract art form and then entered the surrealistic world. After the death of his son his art took more philosophical and mythological character. The first exhibition of his paintings entitled “Reality Myth and Dream in the Norwegian Landscape: Art without Beginning and End Moving Through the Cycles of Life, Death and Resurrection” was held at Seoul Arts Centre in 1997. He has also held solo exhibitions in India. Presently he is working with a project called “Windows of Light”.

His latest writing is “Born and Unborn: God Delusion and Reality”, where he tells about his experiences of the supernatural world, who has guided his life. Though the mystical and supernatural have been an integral part of his life  he fails to comprehend it by using scientific knoweldge and methods. The encounter with the supernatural has created great torments and turmoils in his life and made him feel like an alien in the world. He has written this book in order to grasp the nature of the mind and brain and their relations to the cosmos as well as to understand himself. As he believes that he belongs to the same great mind to which all human beings are parts, he hopes that through this book the others may also be able to see and understand themselves.