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Mangalore, Apr 12: Ganesh Shenoy's exhibition of paintings "The Light of the World" on Jesus Christ has kicked up a lot of curiosity among the art lovers of the city.  The exhibition has been organized jointly been organized by Sandesha Foundation of culture and education and Milagres Church here.

Ganesh Shenoy being a Theosophist felt that it was his bounden duty to encourage the understanding of universality of all religions so that he may help to bring the universal brotherhood in the world. Theosophy stands for exploration of truth, which is higher than all religions. Aim of every religion is the same, that is to bring universal brotherhood amongst the mankind. The word ‘Religion’ etymologically has come from the Latin word ‘religare’ which means to unite and bind. However, nowadays people fail to understand this Noble Truth and instead have made it dogmatism and in its name fight and express violence. Almost all great teachers propagated only truth, through their own medium and the mode of expression though appears different from others, in essence being the same. No teacher has ever preached ‘A Religion’, on the contrary, they expressed only truth through RELIGION.

The members of each religion instead of living together in unity, for exploring the truth, have divided themselves and started living in isolation holding only the shell of the religion, unfortunately forgetting the kernel. If humanity has made a deep study of all existing religions in its true sense there won’t be any difference of opinion as to the basic principles and hence there will not be any room for violence or for separation from the whole.

It was only few months back, while contemplating on the Holy Book ‘The Secret Doctrine’ written by H P Blavatsky, Ganesh suddenly felt the necessity of bringing this truth to the world at large through whatever capacity he has. Starting on this line of thinking there came a revelation to him to focus the truth preached by the great world Teacher who gave his life to uphold this cause. He suffered for humanity, so that they may open their eyes to the need of living together without distinction of caste, creed, religion, sex or colour as one undivided family. This message which Jesus gave 2000 years back is still vibrating in the hearts of those who know ‘that love’ which he preached.

Through these paintings Ganesh tries to reveal to the hearts of humankind, the sacrifice, which this great ‘AVATAR’ has given to the world. The paintings run from his humble birth to the total sacrifice on the Cross.
 
The love incarnate God has given the necessary knowledge, wisdom to live, individually and collectively as a whole. He hopes that this exhibition will help all souls to understand the greatness of this Teacher and will make an attempt to know the universality of His teachings, which is nothing but LOVE in the highest sense.

K Ganesh Shenoy is the son of famous and well known artists of Kerala, K Pundalik Shenoy and Padmini Shenoy. Both of them were associated with Kerala Lalit Kala Academy and regularly participated in their yearly exhibitions in Kerala and also conducted individual exhibitions throughout India.

Ganesh Shenoy was born in the year 1967 at Mangalore and was educated in Kerala and Karnataka. He has two Postgraduate Degrees, one in Social Work and other in Human Resources Management. He is working as Manager - HR in Strides Research & Specialty Chemicals Limited at Mangalore. Right from his childhood he was interested in painting and has secured prizes from school days to College. He is deeply interested in Religion, Philosophy, Occultism, Mysticism etc.  He is an active worker of Theosophical Society and regularly delivers lectures in various centers of India.

His parents trained him in painting and as he progressed he developed a style of his own. His current collection of works is paintings on life of Lord Jesus Christ. He has used a variety of mixed media with colour impasto including herbal. In the present show he will be exhibiting more than 50 paintings showing the humble birth of Jesus to his Resurrection.  His first solo exhibition of these paintings was held last year at Trivandrum, Kerala by the Theosophical Society. He says the said subject has come as a revelation from his inner being. With this exhibition he hopes to bring religious harmony, amity and peace on this planet.

The exhibition will remain open between 10 am and 7 pm on all days till Sunday April 16.

UPDATE:

Mangalore: Ganesh Shenoy's Exhibition Opens, Draws Appreciative Crowds