Last week I had visited the Nirmala Birla Art Gallery which is next to the Birla Science Museum and Planetariam in Hyderabad.
The Art Gallery was small but very beautiful. Some paintings captured me so much, I spent a lot of time admiring them.
The best part of the Gallery was the Terracota mural on the wall of a chapter of Bhagavad Gita, where Lord Krishna “takes” his Vishwaroopa. The mural is beautiful because it is a metaphor for life. It starts with Brahma (the Creator) and ends with the “five elements” of Earth, Water, Wind, Sky and Air
The curator of the gallery came to me and explained the whole mural and the concept behind it, the number of artists who worked on it, time taken and all that. Then he posed a question to me.
Curator: In this chapter, it is Arjuna who sees the Vishwaroopa of Krishna. Why do you think Arjuna is missed out in this mural? How can there be no spectator?
Me: Thinking and confused. I do not know why Arjuna should have been left out.
Curator: Here Arjuna is a metaphor for a “Seeker“. Since we are all “seekers” in some form or the other, the person who “watches the scene” is actually Arjuna.
The curator smiled at me and said: “Now you are the Arjuna“.
It was a different experience to hear these words. Leave aside the religion or spiritual aspect to the whole thing, but we all are indeed seekers in various forms.
Some seek knowledge, others money, others love.
The seeking is unquenchable. We want to explore. We want to wander. We want to understand.We want to be free.
Let this life be a beautiful journey of “seeking” and “discovering“.
Go ahead, let away your fears and seek your own answers 
