#krishnafortoday Paintings
Namaste,
Paintings by Keshav Venkatraghavan are quite impressive. Modern art style Krishna.
They say Dementia is curbed when people keep stimulating their brain. I was curious initially why Krishna had a tail....! Just saying this as I don't want readers to miss the details, my understanding. May be you can decipher further meanings at the picture, if so, please let me know.
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Namaste Viraja ji
Thanks for sharing this "modern" or "progressive" painting.
Are you testing us? :)
The tail belongs to the cow! Not Shri KRshNa. The cow is very cleverly camouflaged in the background using off-white and the same 3-4 colors. See the cow's face and brown horns and KRshNa's kara-kamala (Lotus Hand) in between the 2 horns.
The Urdhva-Pundra -cum- Shikhi-pichha (peacock feather) -cum- trishuL on top is larger than forehead because it covers the area above Sahasra chakra and shows KRshNa's infinite Being.
In the background is a Swastika -- which radiates swasti, swAsthya , Universal Well-Being and auspiciousness.
Shri KRshNa's Mukha-Kamala (Lotus Face) is very peaceful, serene, compassionate, loving, youthful -- Pauganda -- a 9 or 10 year old. Very very sweet.
Rosy red lips stand out making Him very attractive.
He has a Slender waist (siMha-kaTi) which is the constriction - a symbol of Hari putting restrictions on devotees' material lives out of compassion so as to burn their hearts into pure gold. (... OK I admit I just made that one up a second ago).
His Kamal-nAbhi (navel) is the Source of BramhAnDa - Universal manifestation.
Good art -- I hope the artist does not go overboard with it, however.
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I could go on...
The concentric 4-colour semi-circles below the Swastik are either the waves in Ksheer-Sagar (milk-ocean of unmanifest universal plasma), or coiled Shesha-Naag or a combination of both.
The concentric circles radiate KRshNa's explanation of Bramhan' in the Bhagavad Geeta (sRjAmyaham punah: punah: -- I manifest and curve back onto Myself again and again - thus explaning universal manifestation cycles of time - Kaal)
I have also begun to see a Shiva with Nandi superimposed on Shri KRshNa with SurabhI / ChAndani / Gomati / whoever. They are One Being.
See how interesting it gets, the more you study or meditate on it? Just a matter of minutes, or seconds, to come up with new discoveries.
The 3 lines on His chest are Shiva's tripundra that KRshNa takes to heart, and KRshNa's Urdhva-Pundra that Shiva caries on head.
The Swastika serves multi-purpose of Shiva's Naag around neck and KRshNa's siMhAsan (royal seat) (Shiva's stone seat) and KRshNa's UparNa flowing around shoulders.
KRshNa's pitAmbar pattern (layered-striped) also gives a Nataraj look.
HariHara !
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Look at the NAbhi-Kamala carefully -- do you see Shiva's damrU around it? As KRshNa's (Maha-VishNu's ) navel is the source of BramhAnDa, Shiv starts rattling the damrU with pleasure.
Shiva's DamrU is one of the primordial sounds of the universe (after the OnkAr) , and it is no coincidence that it is right at KRshNa's nAbhi-kamala (navel).
When a philosophical devotee comes up with Divine art, there should be no sense of doer-ship (kartrutva, kartA bhAv) - which is adnyAna. Then, the art will flow, the secrets of existence will radiate from it because then it is coming from a higher dimension, not the logical brain. This is when others will see things into it that perhaps the artist themselves did not intend to add.
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Yashoda pulled little KRshNa's hair in a bow on top and placed a Peacock Feather in it. Notice how the peacock feather is made squarish and looks like a TrishuL.
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Krishna was born on Wednesday,the eighth day of second fortnight in Sravana month. This was Lord Krishna and that special day is celebrated as Janmashtami.