Soch means thought, alaya means abode, Soch+Alaya an abode of thoughts. In sanskrit It stands for a toilet or a place for purification, another place where ideas and thoughts are born.
As an observer one can choose to cut off from the external surrounding and move into a space within oneself. There the reality has abstract limits . Or they can choose to cut off from themselves and move into the external reality where there are tangible tactile boundaries. Between the two realities exists a space where there are no limits or boundaries, one can enter this knowingly or unknowingly .
I call this sentient space as sochalaya. One always has the choice of witnessing, questioning and channelling, all we need to do is to take the step. Does not matter who you are, “ wise or otherwise.”
As we grew up we all have experienced this space, where we are physically sitting with our eyes open and staring at something or someone, but mentally we are somewhere else in some other reality/ world/ universe. Sochalaya, our very own abode of thoughts that we have always been visiting since the day we opened our eyes. As a baby, as an adolescent, as an adult we have been and will forever be with our alive and spirited space sochalaya, that which is not.
Mukund Iyer
Artist I Bio architect I Educator I Illustrator I Concept Artist
Email: info@sochalaya.com
sochalaya 