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Jan 15, 2014

GEETOPADESHA - A 3-D MURAL

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"YADHAA YADHAA HI DHARMASYA...

GYAANIR BHAVATHI BHAARATHA...

ABYUTHAANAM ADHARMASYA...

THADHAATHMAANAM SRIJAAMYAHAM...


PARITHRAANAAYA SAADHOONAAM...

VINAASAAYACHA DUSHKRUTHAAM...

DHARMA SAMSTHAABANAARTHAAYA...

SAMBHAVAAMI YUGHE YUGHE..."



MEANING...

"Whenever there is a fall in Dharma(Justice)

and a rise in Adharma(Injustice/The wrong)

I shall come here...

When there is a dance of destruction 

and the principles of sustenance weaken...

I ,who am omnipresent and watching everything...

shall take control of the situation

and set things in balance...

to protect the devout /good...

raze out the evil which vandalises the Earth...

and re-establish Dharma...

I shall manifest 

in every Yugha(Era/period)...."

Thus spake Lord Krishna

in the battle fields of Kurukshetra...

to Arjuna...

who was blessed to get 

the Geetopadesha...

"Do your duty...do not expect the rewards..."

says Krishna...

Doesn't it apply 

not only to the Pandavas but to you and me too?

This is the scene that I have depicted

in my Tanjore Painting

"Geetopadesham"

Where you see Lord Krishna

delivering the divine message

to Arjuna when he hesitates to 

lift his bow and arrow against 

the Kauravas...his kith and kin 



-and also his wrong doers...



The whole piece is given a metallic finish 

and figures of Sri Krishna and Arjuna 

are painted with acrylic colors...

The base of this mural is wood...







Jan 5, 2012

MY SYMBOLIC MURAL.....KRISHNA......

                                                     


                                       WHEN I THINK OF KRISHNA VARIOUS FORMS 
                                       AND HUES
                                       FLASH IN MY MIND'S EYE......


                                       THE REDDISH EARTH OF GOKULAM 
                                       WHERE HE LAUGHED AND PLAYED
                                       THE SWIRLING WAATERS OF YAMUNA
                                       THE GREEN BANKS WHERE        
                                       HE TENDED THE FLOCK
                                       THE LUCKY FEATHER WHICH 
                                       ADORNED HIS CROWN
                                       AND THE MAGICAL NOTES THAT WAFTED OUT
                                       OF HIS MAGICAL FLUTE....


                                       ALAIPAAYUTHE   KANAAAAA....
                                       SINGS MY HEART...


                    and the result is this mural -shaped by hand 
                    with chalk and glue  and   oil colors ...
                   
                    the shades  that represent Krishna....


                     and touched with glints of
                    gold and  silver.....