What started as a home business gradually expanded and Symbols House of Natural Art was started one and a half years ago in Brickfields. Initially it was conceived as an art gallery but as we had more than paintings to offer to our clients, we became more of a studio where various activities were initiated.

We had twelve volumes of handbooks titled Hindu Science through our home business and when we shifted to this new studio, we allotted a special place for our books and continued the series.

The owner and the gallery resident artist, Jeganathan Ramachandram, who also happens to be the author of the Hindu Science series took it further by doing his Nadha Brahmam reading in the premise.

In year 2007, with the help of a special patron, Mr Thiaga Sunder, we built a special room where one can distress and even heal through sound, light and aromatherapy called "PAUSE".

Soon, the demand by clients brought about art classes for adult and children, using an ancient system of learning known as “Gurukulam”. And the latest inclusion to this ever expanding place is Sound appreciation class; teaching people to chant mantras in a proper way using an ancient sound methodology.

Our aim is to have a place where people of all walks will get to understand and appreciate the arts and science of the ancient mystics.

Currently, we are located in a home studio in Jalan Ipoh.

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Venue: National Art Gallery, Malaysia
Year: 2005

• Have you wondered how life would be if it was just BLACK and WHITE, without SOUND and SMELL?

• Why is the grass green, hair black and sky blue?

• Why do the bees buzz, the cows moo and snakes hiss?

• Why would creation unfold itself into the many colors and sound that we experience around us?

• Why do we call a certain place a ‘red light’ area?

• Why is night dark?

• And why is the color blue related to spirituality?
  

In this project, held at National Art Gallery, Malaysia, Jeganathan answered these questions and explained the relationship of sound and colour with the human body through his informal talk.

Jega giving a talk to the visitors.

"Colour is all around us. Even our body has all the nine colours. Our blood is red, bones are white, veins are blue and bile is yellow and so on."

-Quoted by Jeganathan Ramachandram on the existence of colour

Jega demonstrates on how sound travels in the body.

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Commissioned by: Petronas
Year: 2007


"Ethereal Colours of Sound" is a series of paintings based on chakras. This series is under the collection of Prince Court Medical Center, one of the largest private hospitals in Klang Valley which is located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.



What are chakras? How are these paintings done?

Chakras are vibratory points in the body and each one of us possess a specific dominant chakra within us. Using the veenai, Jeganathan plays the name of a person and identifies his/ her sound pattern. Later, this sound pattern is used to specify the sound chakra of that person. Upon client's request or advice from Jeganathan, this sound chakra is translated into a painting, to suit the client's needs. Chakra paintings, according to Jeganathan, possess healing properties and has the ability to create a positive vibration for the owner.

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Jeganathan has a very unique passion for sound. What he means by sound here is not the sound of music, but sound appreciation. "Music is about melodies and lyrics but sound is about emotional patterns, " says Jeganathan. Thus, he does not consider himself as a musician, eventhough he can play the veenai and tambura.

Jeganathan has been conducting studies on sounds and has discovered the points where sounds are produced in the body. Using this, he has done paintings to depict the sounds (pic). For example, he says that the note "sa" starts from the chakra in the stomach and ascends upwards till it reaches the head.

Jeganathan shares this knowledge with his students, both the young and adult through his sound appreciation class which is held every fridays, from 7.00pm to 8.30 pm. He teaches them how to chant basic mantras in the correct manner and to invoke the chakras which helps to create a balance within themselves.

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