How can this guy be living divinely with a cigarette in his hands? Hindu divinity has nothing to do with smoking. This is the problem with many but not all western enthusiasits who love taking pictures of eastern way of lives and folow eastern faiths just for the thrill of it and jump from one faith to another. They never really understand the Divine by jumping from one faith to another and live in the fantasy of photographs instead of following the path with full reality and sincerity. Some just want to learn martial arts and without divine, others just want to take pictures without divine, others who knows what may be food, music or intelligence or whatever else. But all their lives they never understand Dvine no matter what faith they had come from or are going into? A very few really understand Divine!

No reason to take offence. A photographer, like any good artist, is an observer. True talent lies in recording these observations without malice and sharing 'em with the rest of the world. Keep up the good work, Nick!

Gurbir Singh Brar, your comment is heart felt, loving and insightful. Loving hearing from our Punjab neighbors. Sat Nam

Striking shot. I love the subtle motion blur on the hands in contrast with the stillness of the face and expression in his eyes. Brings to mind the contrast between the bustle of the outside world and the stillness of the inner during meditation.

gurbir ji ,you said well that photographer is an observer, taking these is not bad at all,it is sharing something what is really happening, But keeping these under the title 'living divinely' does not seems correct to me because if someone is not fimiliar to hinduism then this photograph will be the first impression to that person about hinduism and he can start expecting something in that way from hinduism which is not the soul of hinduism so these pictures can displayed under some other title. can you really judge that the person above is living divinley??