Bhagavan Sri Krishna – The Divine Perfection : 6. Swami Krishnananda
02/04/2019 (Spoken on Sri Krishna Janmashtami, August 25, 1978) 6. It is only art, an aesthetic sense of presentation, that can, to some extent, stir our being to the realities of our aspirations more than logical presentations and mathematical disquisitions. The epic of the Mahabharata is an artistic portrayal of perfection in which the author has beautifully knit together the pictures of personalities who went to form a completeness by themselves, who threaded themselves into a beautiful artistic presentation. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata, to mention two of the epics of the world, are magnificent edifices of artistic achievement. But only an artist can achieve that perfection; the layman cannot understand it, and even an appreciation of it is difficult. A magnificent painting, for instance, can be appreciated only by an equally great painter. A person who is not acquainted with the secrets and the principles of art and aesthetics may not be able to appreciate the painti...