6. "Who Am I," asked the T-shirt

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At first it was dark on the face of the deep.
A Question arose: Who Am I?
The answer was in the Questioner.
When there was this realization, there was light!
A filament of primordial origins glowed from within,
Whose light soon pervaded the heaven and the earth.
The Questioner ceased to exist
And a Guru was born!
AUM TAT SAT!
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Trivia
About the Art

• Central design was conceived and drawn on a White T-shirt; hence the name of this blog posting.
• Added the 4-colored frame using a graphics software after taking a digital snap of the T-shirt.

About the Verses

• Language usage - Influenced by the Bible, Old Testament in Basic English. Do you see a palindrome in there?
• Line 1 - Influenced by "And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters." -- Genesis 1:2 Old Testament, Bible in Basic English. 'Deep' in Hindi language (Consonant 'D' pronounced as 'the' sound) stands for lamp as in Deepawali, the Hindu Festival of Lights!
• Line 5 - Referring to the filament shape, OM, or AUM written in Devanagari script. AUM is considered to be the primordial sound in the Hindu tradition.
• Line 8 - "guru" - Sanskrit: Dispeller of Darkness; 'gu'= darkness, and 'ru' = dispeller. A spiritual teacher is called guru in Sanskrit.
• Line 9 - Influenced by "AUM TAT SAT" (Bhagavad Gita 17.23)
  

  AUM is the mystical symbol supreme.
  AUM is the real name of God.
  In the cosmic manifestation is AUM.
  Beyond the manifestation, farthest beyond is AUM.
  TAT means 'That,' the Nameless Eternal.
  Above all attributes, majestic 'That' stands.
  SAT means Reality,
  the Truth Infinite.