Late night yesterday, I had this thought coming up in my thoughts. There were many scattered ideas, which I felt decorated my core idea really well. Here is how it came. It again, yet another mad thought.
How Wonderful a world had this been if our Ancients preached Art than Religion!
I see myself as a very good admirer of Art. Be it any form, language or any other classification. I have seen people thinking deeply and more importantly, I have observed people thinking relevantly even in a painting or a novel. He can also be someone who was influenced by life and pass through a mighty transition stage after which there is a crowd that is influenced by this work. Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist” is such a beautiful example for this.
I recollect a line that I read long back, “An artist is a person who has God’s signature on the walls of his heart”. True it is. But it is also sad the way Art is suppressed in our societies. Or on a more micro assessment, we can see that suppression beginning right from our homes just for this one reason that Art is not the major portion of our curriculum. I still am not able to figure out what disqualifies Art from being considered a main stream in the school curriculum. It is a skill that needs to be nurtured and mended in the right way.
We can see suppressed artist in the form of graffiti, bathroom singers. There are more poems, songs, and stories that die just after birth as manuscripts. Even more are the number of arts that die in the womb of the artist’s psyche. There is an infinite number of art form sealed in unknown minds those are ready to explode when given a stage.
Let’s spread Art. Let people learn to admire the way someone else’s creation. That is a good way to reinstate the long lost mentality of our world to ‘accept’ other’s ideas. I often think that Art is that only one reason God has to justify his creation of mankind. Or in other words, Art is the only harmless innovation the entire human race has offered to Mother Nature.
Instead, we have religion. I still wonder how can any religion that is known to just a handful of “the Godmen” be generalized to all. This is emotional slavery. Those who follow first blind themselves, so there is no risk of a Q&A session. Sometimes I feel Religion is another politics among God’s ‘people’. This is dangerous. We have a very pathetic situation that awaits for our children and grandchildren. We are going to leave the world in a very bad shape than how we got it from our ancestors and we had no right for doing that.
We got it wrong and we made it even worse.
Yes! I repeat!
Art was more important than Religion!
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