What in the world is cintamani (pronounced chin-taa-maa-nee)?
Actually cintamani is not present, at all, in this earthly world. You have to travel to the spiritual world of Vaikuntha, (the place of no anxiety) or the spiritual sky. There, all objects are made of this sentient substance called cintamani, which can be loosely translated as "conciousness gem." This is what I want to try to portray in some of my watercolor paintings and illlustrations.