They are pure
ecstasy…
.
.
.
They are like
bundles
Of
HOPE…
.
.
.
YOU just
Fall in
LOVE
with THEM…
.
.
.
I think it’s something
deeper ,
.
.
.
more infinite,
more eternal…than
the ocean
.
.
.
YOU
are a part
of
me
.
.
.
LITTLE
One…
.
.
.
A sense
of
.
.
.
Complete
PEACE…
.
.
.
And then
my
SOUL
.
.
.
Saw
YOU…
.
.
.
Let her
sleep
for
when she wakes up…
.
.
.
she will
move
mountains…
.
.
.
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March 27, 2023 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: art , baby , blackandwhite , calf , camera , creative nature , elephants , fineart , fineartphotography , gentle giants , india , jungle , kabini , naturesbest , photographer , photography , spirit , travel , wabisabi , wildlife , wildplace , zen , zen prayer artist monochrome black &white | 21 Comments
A
Mother
Who,s
Always
There…
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May 16, 2020 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: animals , art , asianelephants , communication , corbett , elephants , elephantvoices , energy , fine art , gentile gaints , india , mind , mother , motherhood , natgeo , nature , photography , poetry , sharing , spirit , thoughts , travel , truth , wabisabi , zenwalk | 11 Comments
He who follows
the elephants
will have no problem…
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March 11, 2020 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: art , asianelephants , black&white , bnw , bnwgreatshots , bnwlovers , corbett , elephants , fineart , gentile gaints , indianature , life , monochrome , monotone , nature , travel , truth , wabisabi , zen | 6 Comments
One must give himself completely
To his art and not hold back.
Throw caution to the
Wind.
Embrace the muse.
Harley King
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December 20, 2019 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: art , black&white , bnw , corbett , creativity , elephants , elephantvoices , indianature , life , mind , muse , natgeo , photography , prayer , religion , travel , truth , zen , zen prayer artist monochrome black &white , zenart | 8 Comments
Where are we
Going ?
Always home …
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November 8, 2019 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: art , asianelephants , bnw , corbett , creativity , elephants , fineart , home , life , literature , mind , photography , poetry , soul , thoughts , travel , truth , zenwalk | 5 Comments
Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s
about un-becoming everything that isn’t
really you, so you can be who you were
meant to be in the
first place.
~ ` ~ Paulo Coelho
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October 9, 2019 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: animals , art , communication , elephants , energy , existence , fine art , gentle giants , journey , life , mind , nature , photography , religion , spirit , thoughts , travel , truth , zenart , zenwalk | 14 Comments
“ There is mystery behind that masked grey visage
, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty,
awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence
ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks,
great fires, and the sea.”
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September 15, 2019 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: art , corbett , creativity , elephant , elephantvoices , gentile gaints , india , life , photography , religion , truth | 17 Comments
Too often in life we pass by Important things.
Let’s pause, change perspective &
See things more clearly.
~`~ Sergio de silva
( Corbett national park,India)
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June 9, 2019 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: animals , art , corbett , creativity , elephants , existence , fineart , life , mind , nature , photography , poetry , sharing , spirit , travel , zenwalk | 10 Comments
Find yourself always…
In rhythm…
Even if you go out
Of step…
Come back again
…remember to fall in line again…
Remain with nature…
Move on…
(Words:Osho )
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February 16, 2019 | Categories: Functioning of... " No MinD ".. , Gentle Giants | Tags: animals , art , creativity , elephants , gentile gaints , life , mind , monochrome , monotones , photography , travel , truth , zenwalk | 19 Comments
” We lose ourselves in the
things we love…
We find ourselves there
Too…”
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March 10, 2018 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: animals , art , asianelephants , blackandwhite , corbett , elephants , life , monochrome , monotone , photography , religion , travel , truth , zen , zenwalk | 9 Comments
The ways of these
gentle giants &
how they
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August 29, 2017 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: animals , art , elephants , faith , gentlegiants , healing , life , nature , photography , poetry , relationships , spirit , travel , truth | 27 Comments
The way of these gentle giants..
&
how they heal us are
mysterious…
They are some of the most
accomplished
&
accessible
healers we may
ever
meet…
there is power that resides
in the heart of
a
species…
that..is
exponentially
higher than ..the power of any
individual…
The desire to know your
soul
will end all
other desires.
~ ` ~ Rumi
My soul is my
guide.
~ ` ~ Rumi
( words adapted from; “Animals as healers “.. pictures taken at Kaziranga national park,India )
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April 23, 2017 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: art , creativity , elephants , energy , fineart , gentlegiants , life , mind , monochrome , nature , nature art , photography , religion , soul , soul menders , spirit , thoughts , travel , truth , zen , zenwalk | 23 Comments
What does it take to actually be a
yogi, really?
Not spiritual attainment or Asana performance,
but the beautiful embrace of your
own reality.
~ ` ~ Mark Whit well
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April 4, 2016 | Categories: Gentle Giants , Uncategorized | Tags: camera , elephants yoga yogi , jungle , nature , photographer , photography , wildlife , zen | 23 Comments
May be
The journey isn’t so much about becoming anything.
Maybe it’s unbecoming everything
that isn’t you
….so that you can
be who you were meant
to be
in the first place…
~ ` ~ Unknown
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September 16, 2015 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: africa , beauty , black and white , elephant , love , meditation , monotones , nature , osho , photography , presence , profound , spirit , travel , tusker , wildlife , zen | 33 Comments
To love is to suffer. to avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer… ~ ` ~ Woody Allen
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August 13, 2015 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: beauty , corbett , elephant , love , nature , photography , spirit , suffer , travel , wildlife , woodey allen , zen | 30 Comments
The torn boughs trailing
O’er the tusks…aslant
The saplings reeling in the path
He trod,
Declares his might- our lord
The Elephant
Chief of the ways of
God…
~ ` ~ Tom Alter
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July 1, 2015 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: art , beauty , black and white , camera , chief , corbett , elephant , jungle , nature , photographer , profound , religion , spirit , tom alter , travel , wildlife , zen | 14 Comments
We lead our lives like water flowing
down the hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a
~ ` ~ Arthur Golden
( At corbett National park, India )
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June 7, 2015 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: camera , corbett , elephant , nature , photographer , presence , tusker , wildlife , zen | 24 Comments
Stop looking for happiness
in the same place you
lost it. ~ ` ~ Unknown
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February 28, 2015 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: beauty , camera , corbett , elephant , energy , happiness , india , jungle , mind , nature , photographer , presence , spirit , travel , wildlife | 18 Comments
“ There is mystery behind that masked grey visage,
and ancient life force, delicate and mighty,
awesome and enchanted,
commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks,
great fires, and the sea.”
` ~ ` Peter Matthiessen,
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August 22, 2014 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: ancient life force , art , beauty , corbett , elephant , energy , india , jungle , mighty , nature , Peter Matthiessen , photographer , photography , presence , silence , travel , tusker , wildlife | 16 Comments
check your mind
Be on your guard
Pull yourself out
as an Elephant from mud…
~~ Buddha
If the mud ain’t flying
You ain’t trying…
Go through the mud
They said
It isn’t deep
they said…
Dontcha
wish your daddy
could mud
like mine ??
The world is
Mud luscious
&
puddle wonderful…
If you pray
for rain
be prepared for
some mud…
make mud
not war…
(words: internet posters…)
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October 12, 2013 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: beauty , buddha , camera , corbett , elephant , energy , god , herd , hope , india , jungle , kabini , love , mind , mud , muddy , nature , photographer , photography , poet , presence , profound , religion , spirit , travel , tusker , vacation , wildlife , zen | 31 Comments
Each Elephant has an individual personality__
It has Joy,
It has grief,
It has communication….
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August 3, 2013 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: art , arts , beauty , buddha , camera , communication , corbett , elephant , energy , eternal , god , grief , hope , india , joy , jungle , love , meditation , mind , nature , personality , photographer , photography , poet , presence , spirit , travel , tusker , vacation , wildlife , zen | 33 Comments
Just A reminder …
not to judge..
another’s journey…
To do yours in your own P a c e….
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June 21, 2013 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: africa , art , arts , beauty , buddha , camera , elephant , energy , hope , journey , love , meditation , mind , nature , pace , photographer , photography , poet , presence , profound , spirit , travel , tusker , wildlife , zen | 14 Comments
Dear Friends…
It’s exactly one year since I started my blog
I started with my first post.”unconditional love” .(.https://sriramjanak.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/babys-day-out/ )..about elephants babies…
And I thought It would be appropriate to celebrate this I st anniversary with another post about them …
My thanks to all my blogger friends who have supported me through out…..taken time to be here with me and also like /comment on my posts..
The past one year has been a great learning experience for me and I also did damage my skull ( literally ).. 🙂 .which I hope makes me better in the coming years… :-).
This post is for you my friends…
Take care
Sriram Janak
A wee bit of heaven
Drifted down from above—
A handful of happiness,A heart full of love…
The mystery of life,
So sacred and sweet—
The giver of joy,
So deep & complete.
Precious & priceless,
So lovable, too –
The world‘s sweetest miracle,
Baby, is YOU..
~~ Helen Steiner Rice
Mommy says
I am cute….
If you think
I am cute….
You should see my
Butt….
I may be small..
But I am the Boss…
Babies are the link
Between angels & man
~~ unknown
A baby is god’s opinion that
the world should go on…
~~ Carl Sandburg
Sometimes the smallest bundles bring
The greatest joy…
~~ Unknown
Every baby needs
A lap…
~~ Henry Robin
Sometimes the smallest things shine
brightest in our lives…
~~ unknown
Some times It’s the smallest things that
take up the most room in our
Heart…
~~ Winnie the pooh
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May 25, 2013 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: angel , art , arts , baby , beauty , blade of grass , boss , buddha , butt , calf , camera , corbett , cute , elephant , elephants , energy , gentle giants , god , grass , herd , home , hope , illustration , india , joy , jungle , kabini , love , meditation , mind , motherhood , nature , osho , photographer , photography , poet , presence , profound , receptive state , religion , spirit , spirituality , travel , trunk , tusker , vacation , wildlife , Winnie the pooh , zen | 48 Comments
“In decency ,
Vulgarity , Obscenity
are strictly confined to man ;
he invented them.
Among the higher animals,
there is no trace of them “
( words : Mark Twain )
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March 24, 2013 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: art , arts , beauty , books , buddha , corbett , decency , elephant , energy , herd , hope , illustration , india , jungle , literature , marktwain , mind , nature , obscenity , photographer , photography , poet , presence , profound , spirit , travel , tusker , vacation , wildlife , zen | 18 Comments
” Do not let the behavior of others
destroy your inner peace. ”
~~ Dalai lama
My wishes for a beautiful & peaceful New year…
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December 31, 2012 | Categories: Gentle Giants , Uncategorized | Tags: art , beauty , behavior , buddha , calf , camera , corbett , dalai lama , destroy , elephant , energy , eternal , god , herd , hope , illustration , india , inner , inner peace , jungle , love , mind , nature , peace , photographer , photography , poet , presence , profound , quotes , religion , spirit , spirituality , travel , tusker , vacation , wildlife , zen | 24 Comments
To follow the path
Look to the master
Follow the master
Walk with the master
See through the master
Become the master
~~ zen
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October 17, 2012 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: art , arts , beauty , buddha , camera , corbett , elephant , eternal , god , herd , hope , illustration , india , jungle , mind , nature , path , photographer , photography , poet , presence , profound , religion , spirit , spirituality , travel , tusker , vacation , wildlife , zen | 23 Comments
” To use silence so well: If I could choose for people one attribute of Elephants,
I ‘d choose this:
~~ Katy Payne
The torn boughs trailing
O’er the tusks aslant,
The saplings reeling in
the path he trod …
declares his might —
Our lord the Elephant
chief of the ways of god…
( poem by : John Lockwood Kipling )
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October 9, 2012 | Categories: Gentle Giants , Uncategorized | Tags: art , arts , beauty , boughs , buddha , camera , corbett , elephant , grass , herd , hope , illustration , india , john lockwood kipling , jungle , kabini , love , mind , nature , nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp , photographer , photography , poet , presence , profound , saplings , spirit , travel , tusker , tusks , wildlife , zen | 15 Comments
MUSTH…
” excitement , swiftness, odour, love, passion,
complete florescence of the body, wrath , prowess ,
and fearlessness are declared
to the eight excellences of musth ”
~~~ matangalila
Nilakantha
Makhnas…..are
tuskless male elephants….
During musth the temporal gland
of the male swells and secretes a fluid….
During this period the males seek out and mate with cows.
Musth is sometimes described as
” an instinctive desire in the male elephants to fight and even kill, before mating ”
They are generally
big fellows with powerful trunks….
A big makhna is generally feared
by the members of any herd….
They seem to make up in size
of body & trunk for the lack of tusks &
are generally enormously powerful elephants….
It has been recorded that in the case
of a fight between a good sized tusker & a makhna…
the makhna snapped off one of the tusks of its
opponent with its trunk…
many males in musth also have a continual discharge or
dribble of urine , with damp patches on their hind legs…..
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June 15, 2012 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: animals , big , body , camera , corbett , discharge , elephant , energy , excitement , fear , fearlessness , fight , florescence , glands , herd , hind legs , india , instinctive desire , jungle , kill , love , makhna , male elephants , matangalila , mate , musth , nature , odour , passion , photographer , photography , power , presence , prowess , size , temples , temporal gland , travel , trunk , tusker , tuskless elephant , tusks , urine , wildlife , wrath | 8 Comments
” only that day dawns to
which we are awake “
~~Henry David Thoreau
I always wanted to photograph a Tusker in rain……
early morning ride….
we were just entering the forest through the bamboo thickets…..when
we heard the sound of bamboo cracking….& the bamboo near the road swayed….
It was raining…
and I was praying….
the camera was ready…and we saw this handsome fellow emerge …
In the forest …
they say everything happens suddenly &
all at once…
cutting off….
all speech…
cutting off…
all thoughts…
He emerged…..
“…….the painter is in love with colours,
The poet is in love with words…….”
~~~ Osho
and I was in love with this gentle gaint…
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June 8, 2012 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: arts , bamboo , blade of grass , camera , elephant , entering the forest , forest , gentlegaints , grass , handsome fellow , Henry David Thoreau , herd , india , jungle , kabini , love , meditation , nagarhole , nature , osho , painter , photograph , photographer , photography , poet , pray , presence , profound , rain , thickets , travel , tusk , tusker , wildlife , zen | 26 Comments
“….so silent & so alive that his
Silence is a song ,
that this song is nothing but
his Silence.. …”
~~~ Osho
There are moments in life when
some kind of magic happens..
This is one of them…..
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June 5, 2012 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: art , black and white , camera , corbett , elephants , gentile gaints , hope , india , kind of magic , life , magic , meditation , mind , moment , monotones , nature , osho , photographer , presence , silence , song , travel , tusker , wildlife , zen | 2 Comments
“There are times in life , you can count them in minutes ,
when you experience an awareness far greater than you usually
Find in a whole year “
~~ Dostoevsky
As soon as we started our trip by boat…we sighted a herd of elephants. and started moving towards them immediately..We saw the herd moving towards the jungle…
and went as fast as we could .
We noticed there was one little baby which suddenly decided that it needed to sleep..!!…
We lost our hearts to this baby. the herd had no option but to stay put…&
we spent a glorious 2 hrs with this baby and the herd…..
These are moments…
I counted… and kept counting…
A smell can carry a
meaning..
expressing care….
This IS
love…..
reassurance….
“….like humans , the animal should be permitted to speak its
own emotional language, which is up to the beholder to understand……….”
That low nice
curiosity…
…” to understand animals …it is essential to
understand what they F E E L…..”
There is a great deal…
it does not speak…..
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May 24, 2012 | Categories: Gentle Giants | Tags: boating , calf , camera , elephant , grasslands , herd , india , jungle , kabini , nagarhole , nature , photography , travel , tusker , wildlife | 39 Comments
Living with a damaged skull 