Life is Good

After a long time I am really feeling great. From the past few days there are so many wonderful things which are happening in my life. I am so much thankful to the great almighty for being so kind to me. Thank you “Thakur”. You are really great!! Let’s start with the beautiful and brilliant paining exhibition which has held for full 15 days in the Vivekanandar Illam (Vivekananda House) which is situated just opposite to the marina beach. I was so much touched by seeing the enthusiasm and the innovative ideas of almost all the competitors. The competitors were both school and college students. And how professionally they drawn the pictures with such a perfection!! It seems like a professional painter has drawn those paintings. Some painting has drawn only by pencil and with so much perfection that for a while you may feel the actual presence of Swamiji (Swami Vivekananda). The prize winning pictures were truly great. Only by using pencil a guy brought the 3D effect in his paining which got the first prize( in the picture Swamiji looks so much real that u feel like he is looking into your eyes).the second picture where Mother Kanyakumari is blessing Swamiji who is sitting on a rock in kanyakumarika. Even here the whole painting made up by pencil alone and brought up the realistic effect, everything… the ornaments of the Goddess… the Ashirwad she is giving to Swamiji, I mean the ray coming from her hand too was so much perfect like its coming lighter too darker… the clothes of Swamiji is somewhat clumsy.. All these were so much perfect. The third prize winning picture was an oil painting of Swamiji which resembles the picture of Swamiji taken at San Francisco. So many has asked whether that is a painting or a real one (photograph). The boy who has drawn this picture brought some lighting effect in his painting. It seems like Swamiji is standing and light is focusing in his right side and on the left side the shades are coming. It was really too good. The other pictures too are equally good. Each and every picture tells a story. It feels great to see those creative minds. There were also some special paintings. Most of them are drawn by physically challenged person. A person having no hands (drawn with his leg alone), a girl being deaf and dumb, a small school children having no hands( drawn by his mouth alone) brought up with such a wonderful painting that even for us it would be difficult, who are blessed with all physical abilities. They should be our inspiration. Though they are physically disabled the have come up with all their will-power and by remembering Swamiji’s sayings, “Strength is life, Weakness is death”… “All the power is within you. You can do anything and everything”. There was a paining which was made totally by grains, a picture made only and only by writing the name Swami Vivekananda in Tamil ( everything.. the face, the eyes, the eyeball, the sun..), a painting of Swamiji decorated with woolen thread and also a painting which has fully made up with peacock feather. All the paintings were with so much creative idea. A special picture has drawn by a Student of Kumbakonam Dist. by taking his own blood (20 mg) from his hand. There was also a boy from Kanchipuram Dist. who alone has drawn 16 portraits of Swamiji. All those were really inspiring. The exhibition has ended up by 26th of Jan. Truly I had a great experience.