The cover of Madhu Raghavendra’s Seeking the Infinite reflects the author’s symbolic devotion to Shiva. Offering the blue-toned water-colored cover, perhaps a co-relative of the Neelkanth flower, the poet (read: artist) seeks the blessing of the Infinite for a meditative phase of purity, devotion and to let go of materialistic desire. Since the book is dedicated to “bhakti” and “art”, the reader immediately begins to wonder how the “daily course of our lives” can offer “atma-nivedana”, “reminding the permanence of infinity and the transitoriness of our bodily self” and establish “sakhyatva” or “friendship with the divine”.

The poet asks the readers: what can an artist offer other than his art? But when deep in devotion, the artist feels insignificant in front of the infinite and asks

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