The Samvatsar Lectures-XI delivered by Sri Nirmal Verma in two parts on Concept of ‘Truth’ in Art is a profound mixture of his deep erudition and experience as a writer. To Verma, a work of art does not communicate truth-it is the truth itself. It carries within itself multiple layers of meaning, coexisting or sometimes colliding. A work of art acquires the numinous quality of the sacred-a ‘return’ to the primal sense of our being. He strongly believes that the truth in art can never be governed by the evolutionary laws of progress. The progress in art is an illusion. Man on earth is a fragile creature-incomplete, weak and vulnerable-but in a work of art, in a painting or in a piece of music or in a poem, he is able to get a fleeting glimpse of what can be called the ‘advaitic’ feeling of wholeness from which he has been exiled by the forces of history and the fragmentary nature of life.
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