Nature of consciousness. Interpretation: The nature of consciousness is to be just a mirror. The mirror has no choice of its own. Whatsoever comes in front of it is reflected,good or bad,beautiful or ugly-whatsoever. The mirror does not prefer,it does not judge, it has no condemnation. The nature of consciousness,at the source,is just mirror-like. In this artwork the earthen lamp symbolises consciousness and the mirror symbolises its nature