CHINNA KATHA FROM BHAGAVAN’S DISCOURSE. No. 45.

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45 - It shone like a mirror

 

Once, a great painter was engaged 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, in

spite 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 polished 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.