47 - It shone like a mirror

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47 - It shone like a mirror

 

Once a great painter was by a king to execute a huge fresco on the

wall of his Durbar Hall, a scene from the Mahabharatha battle.

 

Another painter came and asked for permission to execute a fresco on

the opposite wall. He said he would within the same period prepare

on his wall an equally grand fresco, in fact an exact replica of the

other, inspite of a curtain being hung in between the walls.

 

On the date fixed for the opening of the frescoes to be seen by the

king the curtain was removed. The king was amazed to find an exact

copy of the same scene from the Mahabharatha battle down to the

minutest detail of lines and curves, tints and tilts, light and

shade. The king questioned the painter as to how he could do it. The

artist said that he had not used any brush or paint. What he did was

thoroughly polish the wall assigned to him. He polished the wall in

such a way that it shone like a mirror. So the duplicate fresco was

only a reflection of the original.

 

Similarly we have to cleanse our mind and make it pure so that God's

sublime grandeur and beauty may be reflected in our heart.