10 years ago, I came across about Sri Ramana Maharshi through my father; he was working on a series of paintings on Maharshi. I had known him vaguely and it was during one of the conversations about Maharshi at home that I got to know that my grandfather had in fact met him when he was young. My father was told that there was a person called Ramana Maharshi living in Tiruvannamalai and that he had the deepest insight about life. Since the last one year, I have been working on a series of paintings on Tantric philosophy and felt the urge to read about Maharshi; though I haven't gone through all of his teachings and philosophy, his silence has had a profound impact on me and my work. The below works are some of my recent paintings on Maharshi, his philosophy of emptiness or nothingness is reflected in the paintings.