Jesus and Judas

The painting"Last Supper" by Leonardo Da Vinci is world famous.The painter was searching for a suitable model for Jesus for two years. At last he met one Pietro Bandinelli in a church.The boy looked very calm ,handsome radiating the same brilliance as would be expected of Jesus. Da vinci paid the person and he was much satisfied with the outcome of the painting. Still the painting was incomplete.All disciples have been brought out in the painting,except Judas.He was searching for a person whose face will be rude,ruff and stiff
to reveal the true character of Judas.

After about 5 years he met a beggar in the streets of Rome.The form,appearance & rudeness exactly resembled Judas.The famous painter hired him and completed the famous"Last Supper" with the beggar as a model for Judas. When the work was complete the painter asked the name and other personal details of the model.

The beggar revealed that he was the same'Pietro bandinelli"who posed as a model for Jesus 5 years back.Da vinci was greatly puzzled. Where did all the calmness,composure and brilliance vanish?

He didn't raise any query but thought to himself.
"In each man there is 'Jesus' and there is 'Judas' too.It is upto the individual to elevate himself as Jesus or degrade himself into Judas notwithstanding the favourable or unfavourable situations prevailing."
What a great thought !
This incident has been quoted as 'fake' in 'snopes. Com.'

Even if it is not a real incident, it brings to surface many important truths in life.Topsy turvy changes are possible and a reality also.



No human being is totally perfect or imperfect.There are two faces to each person and each activity,just like two sides of the same coin.


Rights and duties are closely related and cannot be separated from one another. Both go side by side. These are the two sides of the same coin. If the state gives the right to life to a citizen, it also imposes an obligation on him to not to expose his life to dangers, as well as to respect the life of others.



Rights can be enjoyed only in the world of duties. For every right there is corresponding duty. When the people fail to discharge their duties properly, the rights all become meaningless.


On many occasions we think that people who achieve success are brimming with confidence.
Not at all.There is a fear of failure.The fear of succeeding plays a major role than actual failing.


Success is inseparable from responsibility.Many want success but not the responsibility.Society does not allow anyone rest on earlier laurels.People are waiting to point out and analyse any embarassing incident that the victorious gentleman has faced




To be successful is much more daunting to our inner sense of safety and status quo as we do have to change.



President Nelson Mandela, of South Africa once said "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. "

I believe that good and evil stand on their own, and in any given period a community may have an abundance of one and scarcity of another.








If we were to eliminate everything that was "evil" from the world, people would then begin to discriminate between things that were "really" good, and things that were "not so" good. And... those things that weren't really all that good, but definitely not evil before, would become the new evil.

We have to have both, if we want to be able to distinguish between them. Otherwise, if there is only one, there would be no concept of the other. Good would be meaningless if everything was "good". If everything was "good"... then everything would just be ordinary things and not exceptionally good.


It is often said that there is only goodness in nature.There is nothing called 'bad or evil.Only absence of goodness makes a thing bad.good.



Nobody is perfect, and nobody deserves to be perfect. Nobody has it easy, everyone has issues. You never know what people are going through. So pause before you start judging, mocking or criticizing others. Everybody is fighting their own unique war.
It is very often the experience that marriage is the union of two imperfect persons trying to make life perfect.
'perfection is not a reality' as per science.Once further improvements are made the earlier invention which was considered perfect becomes imperfect.
If 'perfection is not a reality at all,the maxim"practice makes perfect' also becomes meaningless.can we abandon practice or efforts?Never.

Perfection is never constant.It is evolving.It is alternating as environments change.

"The day I became enlightened " simply means the day I realized that there is
nothing to achieve and there is nowhere to go and there is nothing to be done,We are already divine and we are already perfect-as we are.No improvement is needed.God never creates anybody imperfect.Even if you come across an imperfect man,his imperfection isperfect.

Now the fake incident quoted in pra 1 becomes more significant.

Jayasala 42

 

Dear Akanksha,
You are right.Jesus and Judas are two sides of the same coin.only perception differs.It may not be worthwhile to go on aiming at perfection and the efforts may result in depression too.A balance is what is required.
Thank you for the first instantaneous response.

jayasala 42

 

Dear balajee,
I agree with you totally.You are perfectly correct.The meaning of'perfection' is nowhere stated and it is getting redefined every second.

jayasala 42

 

Dear Viswa,
A beautiful response referring 'nanotechnology of mind over the matter.The cell intelligence which is widely talked of these days has been in spiritual texts under some other heading.Inspite of all the theoretical explanations merging with Universal consciousness, ( Atma saakshatkaram) is of very rare occurrence and beyond the understanding of human beings of normal intelligence.Better let us lead a normal life of one's own might, minding our own duty with full honesty ,without being a nuisance to others.Whether we become aware of'Jesus' in us or not, let us nor trigger the'Judas' in us.
Jayasala 42

 

Dear Scorpio,
You have caught the essence of my snippet.Unless there is a thing called 'evil',the 'goodness' has no value at all.That is why the nature's process is like wheel turning from prosperity to adversity, from anxiety to peace etc etc.Thanks for your wonderful response.
Jayasala 42