Visions, Images and Reality

Recently I read of an artist who saw two planets in the two halves of an apple. He saw the entire cosmos in a Roti, the Indian bread. Some others saw constellations in other food articles. However this is an art of magnifying the object under the scrutiny of photographic frames.
We know of phenomena when the patterns on a bed of sand make different objects. These could be elongated arms and legs and weird faces with stretched eyes and elongated nose. We see white sponges of clouds on a moonlit sky moving swiftly in the wind taking different shapes of animals and trees.
In the 10th Chapter of the Bhagwadgita, the epitome of Hindu philosophy, Krishna tells Arjuna that he exists in everything. He is the centre of the cosmos. He is the God of all God’s. He is the embodiment of all knowledge. He is the pinnacle of the Himalaya. He goes on to explain his presence in the best of everything existing.
The artists visions of the cosmos and the phenomena of watching patterns in sand and the clouds are perceptions coming out of a foggy mind groping to see something. It could be just that the cosmos exists in a piece of bread or in the moirés of sand or in the formation of different images in a cloud. But what Krishna says is very clear. We need to have certain beliefs to start with. Then we can build on them and see the eternity of life.