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 Hero and God The war of the Bharatas was filled with gruesome deaths and piteous horrors. The battle must be seen, however, Krishna tells us, not from the vantage of individual passion, but with the recognition of the larger order of which all beings are part. That larger order, he says, is a wheel that turns and turns, and we but wander from one birth to another.
In this remarkable image of a final battle scene from the Great War, the enemies who have known each other as friends and brothers, as teachers and pupils, are suspended in a murderous tableau. Bodies are everywhere killing and dying. It is only after careful looking that one sees they are fighting with blades of grass. The old man at the top right picks a leaf from the cluster of reeds. Continue the Hero and God story. For more information on our South Asian Collection, please visit our online catalogue.
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