My Stan Brakhage, 1964

Stan no longer exists as an individual.
Now the universe is the individual.
He’s part of it.
A person can only be understood
in universal terms.

Personal situations no longer exist.
There are only interpersonal situations.

Humans must submit to Nature
or live in lonely misery.

Eternity is love, and all events are
eternally simultaneous acts of love.

We see what we think we see.

To make a work of art the artist must
necessarily stand apart from life,
intimately involved with death.

Film maker Brakhage was my hero at the time. These were my comments about his work.

Author: Damodara Das

Srila Prabhupad initiated me as His disciple on April 15 , 1967 , at 26 Second Avenue in New York , NY .