Jnâna

Sir, 
42 times? Now that sounds Buddhist. Rotate it ninety degrees, hmm, I see the point, no top, no bottom, light and dark equal status, we give dark to what we see as evil, and light to what we see as good, we apply judgment, I suppose. This brings to mind that great Sufi tale, of a man groping about at night under street lamp, a passer by asked what he was doing, “I'm looking for my keys, I dropped them”, he answered, the passer by got down and started to look around, eventually he said to the man, “are you sure you dropped them here?”, “Oh no”, the man replied, “I lost them down the street”, “So why are you searching here?”, “Oh well it's dark down there, but I can see here”, was the reply.. 
Radha Mohan Lal, made the comment that the dross had to be burned away, to reveal the gold within. I don't know why I thought of that great Indian Sufi exactly, I had other points on my mind, but you know all that mass of symbols images, and so on could be the dross, hidden within is the gold. You see you are a scientist and you seek the truth through a scientific approach, knowledge rather than myth, traditionally this is the path of Jnâna . What I understand of Jnâna is, it is the quickest path to absolute 'knowing', but also the most difficult, and implicitly the most dangerous. I think Fr. Bede Griffiths, found that out. 
I wonder if you realized that such a painting could inspire such thoughts in others, I think you did. 
 
Mike

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