1981-10-06 image of Christ (Public program, Houston, USA, day 3)

...I went to the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo was a realized soul, a great person. He has done complete justice to the image of Christ. Huge, big thing like a, we can say, a Texas fellow, standing with a Lambodara, with a big stomach, is this kind. Ganesha is Lambodara. Standing there, throwing people right and left. Just see the words, how He has spoken. He was not a cabbage-like person. He was extremely dynamic. He was full of vigor. He was absolutely fearless. He had nothing to fear. And He’s standing there and throwing people to the left and the right and the right ones is accepting them and putting them in the Kingdom of Heaven. Just imagine! It is Michelangelo is the only person who has really done justice to Him, and I would say Rubens because of his habits of painting the muscles, he’s done a very beautiful painting, I saw, is in the place where he lives, of the ascent and descent of Christ. Beautiful, one of the best one could think. Nowhere misery written on His face. Such people do not feel the misery. They just watch the drama. They don’t suffer. Because of taking up your sufferings it took it upon Himself and He showed to the world that, “Now I ask forgiveness from My Father.” He stood as a representative of all the seekers of the world before His Father, who is a wrathful Father. I told you Shri Krishna has a Samara Shakti and worse than that is the witness God whom we call as Sadashiva. He is only there when He has to destroy. And He asks as your representative, “O Father, please, forgive them.” He asks for forgiveness, facing His own Father as your representative that, “Please, forgive them.” This is the greatest weapon He has given us, to forgive...