Visions of Champaklal

A Vision of the Famous French Artist, Claude Monet

Claude Monet, 1840-1926, France, impressionist painter, was born in Paris and first studied under Boudin. In 1860, he went to Africa, where he performed two years military service. After his return to Paris he became one of the original group of impressionist painters, which included Manet, Renoir and Degas. The rest of his life was spent in the study of colour and light; he abandoned all grays, blacks and browns and tried, by dividing all his tones into the primary colours of the spectrum, to reproduce on canvas the transparency of light. His landscapes are remarkable for their luminosity and brilliance; his careful devotion to his task is shown by his series of paintings of the same subjects at different hours of the day—such as his series of cathedrals, of hayricks and of lily ponds. If his work is somewhat weak in design, he and his fellow impressionists nevertheless rendered a great service to French art, though at first greatly derided by the critics; they freed it from the traditions of a dead classicism and provided their followers with a new method of rendering qualities of atmosphere and of light.

(Webster's Unified Dictionary and Encyclopedia 4, K-Pend, p. 1126)

1985-06-02

After seeing the vision Champaklal was told that this had been Claude Monet's favourite tree, which he had drawn in most of his paintings.

Art (in this case painting) can be one of the many means of expressing the Self and the various forms of Reality. The search for Reality is unending. In the universalised vital plane, one can meet a fellow co-seeker of the Reality, as happened in this vision.

The search for Truth has to be very silent as repeatedly instructed in this case. The sleep becomes a perfect slumber unlike a normal sleep on earth, from which one does not want to get out.

Finally, even after receiving the golden light of Divine Truth, one should not abandon the other “children who are struggling for the new light”, one should help and guide them earnestly as an instrument of the Divine.