{"id":209170,"date":"2022-06-20T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T11:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=209170"},"modified":"2022-05-16T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:40:07","slug":"the-mirror-on-india-and-sistine-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/06\/the-mirror-on-india-and-sistine-chapel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mirror on India and Sistine Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mirror mirror on the wall
\nWho is the best of them all
\nIs it books that you read
\nWhile you laid in your bed
\nIs it education that you got through toil
\nOr is it your pet dog that followed you all<\/p>\n

I like to look at the mirror
\nTo look inside myself deeper
\nAnd find that I appear
\nMore like a mouse than a tiger
\nWonder what happened to my body muscular
\nAnd my deep black mustache circular<\/p>\n

Does the mirror only give an image of yourself
\nOr does it give a glimpse of people like you
\nWho lie down thinking when they looked like tigers
\nAnd ran like beautiful deer who have all but vanished
\nBecause nobody gave them food when they famished
\nThat image of people looking like you still lingers<\/p>\n

The best image is of Sistine Chapel\u00a0ceiling in Vatican Palace
\nConstructed more than six hundred years ago in Vatican City
\nThe Chapel painted by Leonardo da Vinci \u2014 an engineer, a polymath
\nEven the famous artist Michelangelo painted part of the ceiling
\nBy painting standing on a specially built scaffolding railing
\nThe ceiling shows God nurturing humans by\u00a0\u00a0breathing life in Adam<\/p>\n

Vatican Palace \u2014 a Catholic monument used on special occasions
\nWhenever a new Pope is to be heralded and consecrated
\nFar most watched, is the painting of Mona Lisa by Michelangelo
\nNot only beautiful but tomes of articles on how she kept smiling
\nDespite the violence around her in Europe, that kept rising
\nBut today Mona Lisa portrait is safe in the Louvre Museum, Paris<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci – Louvre<\/p><\/div>\n

______________________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Dr Ravi P Bhatia is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, an<\/em> educationist, Gandhian scholar and peace researcher. Retired professor, Delhi University. His new book, <\/em>A Garland of Ideas\u2014Gandhian, Religious, Educational, Environmental was published recently in Delhi.<\/em> ravipbhatia@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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