пятница, 5 мая 2017 г.

Art and Artist...

PROFOUND EXCERPT, IT REPEATS SIDDHANTA FROM "SHREE LAKSHMI-TANTRA". THE EXCERPT IS FROM "KALYANA-KALPATARU", 1935, VOL.02 ("REALISATION THROUGH NATURE" ARTICLE BY VIDYANAND M.A.):

"Art hides as well as manifests its artist. Lower intellects see the art alone, and higher ones, the artist; but blessed are they who see the art in the Artist, and Artist in the art.

Nature is the art of God, and the Artist is hidden from our view. Our senses fail to grasp Him. Even intellect, our sovereign possession, retreats, and often, when it finds no relief, it proclaims, that there is no God.

But God appears to us through His art, Nature, and every flower, nay, every blade gives His glimpse. 

There is a tendency to forget the artist in the art, but great is he who sees the artist in every art. He alone is the Seer; others are, at least, half blind. 

There is nothing in the Universe which does not remind us of the Master-Artist, and, if this sense is not awakened in us, our imagination is too coarse".