Let
us assume that you are a very social type of person and have an affable
personality. Quite often, you visit your
friends, neighbors and relatives. Visiting some houses, you are astonished to
find costly antiques, photo frames depicting scintillating sceneries and
luxurious paintings. In few houses, you mostly find the photos of religious
deities. The pictorial depiction of these deities invariably includes the
Goddess Laxmi, Rama & Sita flanked in the midst of deer in the forest,
blessing hand of Saibaba and the crucifixion of Christ. All these religious
pictures will prompt you to opine in the first instance that the inhabitants
may not be atheists at all and a firm believer of religious rituals. By putting
various pictures of divinity, they prove that they are the great worshippers of
God and unless God’s blessings are not showered on them, their survival becomes
critical. So, by hanging the photos of these deities, they want to cloister
themselves in a religious environment. This could be one reason. Second, by showing the photos of various
sacred deities, they want to appreciate the beauty of religious truth and make
a point of discussion during the social gatherings.
The
lovers of English literatures are pellucid of Keat’s famous line,“ Beauty is
truth and truth is beauty.” When the pictures of deities and goddesses are in
front of you during your sitting and lazing in the room, some of you may like
to introspect the religion attached therein and ponder on the same. Some others
may simply take it as a beauty being expressed from the pictures. There are
others, who with all their profundity and reverence for deities bow their heads
with folded hands to the pictures to seek blessings. People who introspect and try to find out
what the preachings the pictures convey is less in percentage. A number of
people take these photos of deities as a medium to express their morning rituals
to worship for a split of a second. If
you take the crucifixion picture of Jesus, it has an elusive nature of
thoughts, which only creates an illusion unless you understand the nitty-gritty
of the Christian religion. If you manage to understand the inner meanings of
the pictorial beauty, you get a kind of teachings and once you are attached to
it, you become more sensitive to the said beauty. One thing is very sure; the
nature of both beauty and truth is illusory. Truth has many facets, it has
certainty, it has uncertainty and it may also be a lie.
In
his famous creation of literary, namely “Ode on a Gracian Urn,” where Keats has
expressed this above masterpiece line, is beyond anybody’s imagination what he really
wanted to transpire. Was he meaning, “Beauty is an eternal truth or and truth
is always a beauty.” If that being the
case, then the truth can never be an uncertainty or it cannot be a lie at any
cost. But in reality, we know this is malice.
Beauty
is another word of concord and harmony, the entwining of myriads of opposites,
light and shade, sound and silence, hullabaloo and solitude, fullness and
emptiness. Unity always reveals the
harmony of above conjoining factors and one is complementing the other. The truth, which has a beauty, must have a
light, sound, liveliness and honest confession at least mentally. Similarly, various
beautiful things, namely your observing of a blooming red rose in the morning hours, a wave surges
up in the midst of the ocean and then the ridge of water curling into an arched
form and breaking on the shore or the moonlight on a full moon when spreads
across the rooftop or in an open ground with a slow but steady whizzing sound
of air, have a certain truth behind their existence.
The
creation of a beautiful work of an art
such as painting is nothing but a deep worship to augment creativity. Most of
us have not that ability to engage in these types of creativities, but at least
as a proxy to admire those creativities and beauties, we worship them. In this way, we get a consideration that if
we are not creators, we are admirers and devotees to the said beauties. Though Keat’s
lines, prima-facie, may be illusory, but he made explicitly and emphatically
clear that the nature of art has a beauty and that has a truth, which is a fact.
Argumentatively,
by depicting pictures of Gods and Goddesses, many people want to explain the
atmosphere of religiosity in their abode and how far it is true in reality
except a cursory salutation that too with an urge to get blessings; is
anybody’s guess. Still, people find
pride to put those photos of various deities as per their choices to get it
adored of the beautification of their rooms and houses by others.. By putting photos of Gods and Goddess, if you
want to become inclined to a particular religion and become a devotee to
worship, it is a commendable effort; otherwise why put the photos of deities? If
that is not the reality, then you can very well put an artwork, landscape,
abstract art or simply a decorative piece.
By putting photos of these artistic beauties, you can appreciate the
beauty and the truth behind the same. But to get the preachings from the beauty
and become a devotee to God and Goddess and to worship a particular religion,
there is no need of depicting the same to the walls of the rooms; you can even
mentally do the same.
If
you want to appreciate and admire a beautiful creation as Keats did, you can
very well fix any art or artistic work in your rooms.
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