I’m a self confessed Dan Brown fan. I’ve read all of his books, and I wince at the criticism that most cynical readers throw at him. I think they make sense, because he does a fantastic job at blending the spiritual and higher aspects of life with the everyday stuff. And, master of words that he is, he does it with a bit of magic.
For all those uninitiated into the world of books, Dan Brown is the author of the most controvesial book "The Da Vinci Code", the book that holds a very dark secret about jesus christ, a secret that if revealed could shake the very foundation of christanity, a secret that says, Jesus Christ was married and that he fathered a child", and though his other books have never come close to that sort of popularity well off course apart from Angels And Demons, they’re intriguing to say the least. Those who haven’t read them, go do it now.
Anyway, there’s this painting in " The Da Vinci Code", " The Last Supper". A painting around which the entire story of this novel revolves, and which guards this secret. Well again those of you who does'nt know, Leonardo Da Vinci is the same old divine man, who painted " The Monalisa". The most controversial painting of our age. The Painting that defied all rules of science. And so as to say my idol. But thats not the point. This blos is neither about Jesus, Nor Da Vinci, and definitely not about whom i idolise. This is about " The Last Supper", its intiation process, and a very very quintessential meaning of what God intended our life to be !! Of what he thinks of his children. How he intended us to live, and how we as for the matter lead our life, So here it goes...
Centuries ago, in the age of the renaissance, Leonardo Da Vinci had just conceived the idea of painting the Last Supper, a painting which shows Jesus Christ having supper with his apostles, and the painting is special because it shows Jesus, the embodiment of good, and Judas, the doer of evil (because he was the one who betrayed Jesus) in the same painting, along with the other devotees. Da Vinci had his own style of going about his paintings, and it was to seat a live subject in front of him and paint. But this style of painting often required him to go on long ‘subject hunts’. It was on one such long and arduous subject hunt that he discovered a cherubic looking church choir youth, whose face had an angelic look to it. “You’re the man for my painting” said Da Vinci. He invited the youth to his studio, and the face of that youth became the face of Jesus in that immortal painting. So the painting was half done, and Da vinci now wanted someone to paint with as Judas. He searched far and wide, but he could never see evil and avarice manifest themselves so clearly on one face, and he had all but given up hope.
He had almost given up, when he discovered by the roadside one day, a drunk drug addict lying unconscious. His face had all the world’s sinister darkness on it, and he was the quintessential dissipated evil man. He dragged him into his studio, and immortalized the features of that wasted man as the face of Judas in the painting. A few hours later, the man came to his senses, and when he saw what Da Vinci was painting, he said “Hey I’ve seen that painting before!” Da Vinci was perplexed…had some painter stolen his ideas? “Where, Where?” he shook him by the shoulders.
“A few years ago, before I lost the singing job at the church choir, a painter…was it you? Called me as a model for Jesus Christ in this painting. My memory is lulled by my intoxications now, but I believed the painter was you, and this was the very same painting.”
Moral of the story: There’s no good, there’s no bad. You’re both, and both are in you.
Now this is a weird ending don't you agree. But the weirdness just gets better, Leonardo Da Vinci was infact the most genius mind of our age, Its neither Einstein, nor Newton. Google who the hell was Leonardo Da Vinci, and when you are obsessed about something and is determined to know everything about that, you tend to figure out everything about that. Now the genius that Leonardo was, he completely forgot about it, that he had already painted the canvas, that was going to be the most godly painting of all time. This last para was just a piece of info. The blog offically terminates at the Moral !!!
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