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Niska: Painter of the Soul - P1/2
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Greetings angelic viewers,
and welcome to
A Journey through
Aesthetic Realms
on Supreme Master
Television.
In today’s show, we’ll
take an inspiring voyage
to the realm of light
with the first
of our two-part series on
contemporary Canadian
artist François Lortie,
better known as Niska.
Called
“the Painter of the Soul,”
Niska has devoted
over 50 years of his life
to the ardent quest for God
with his paintbrush.
At the age of six,
Niska was struck
by a city bus
when he found himself
out of his body and
surrounded by bright light.
The life-changing moment
was followed by
18 months of confinement
in a hospital bed.
Assigned to
the rehabilitation center
along with war amputees,
he created his first painting
under the loving
encouragement
of his caretakers.
It was here that he made
his lifetime commitment
to spreading
the message of light.
I was already painting
those lights and
my first exhibition [was]
when I sent the paintings
in Ottawa for the
National Gallery in 1954.
By this year, I remember,
I was like 14 years old,
those energies
that I felt in my guts, I
wanted to help the world.
I wanted to help humanity,
to change the world,
So I associated
to my spiritual energy,
wanted so much to give,
so that’s the strength
of power.
And of course the light
that I associate to
[is] the Light of God.
So what would you say
will be your life mission?
How would you
sum it all up?
My life mission was to
uplift the people to realize
that we are not really
human beings.
We are divine beings
that chose to be on Earth.
I think
the human experience
and this human experience
is fun.
What is the most
important thing in life?
It’s your life,
live the life, enjoy,
you are here to rejoice.
So you have to
learn meditating on light
and finding that you’re
a being of light, that you
can raise that dimmer.
Some people need little
lights to start growing
until you realize
you are the light.
With illuminating colors
and smooth flowing strokes,
Niska’s paintings glow
with happiness, purity,
and truth.
The indescribable harmony
of a soulful experience is
brought before the viewer,
like a poem, a symphony,
a ballet, or an epic,
so real that you can
almost touch it.
It’s important
to start thinking
about light and love.
On your dead bed,
you don’t ask
where is my money,
you ask where is the light.
The basic
of many of the paintings
is you see there are
some kind of a circle here.
Can you perceive that
there is a circle there?
You see there?
(Right, yes.) Okay.
When I was a young boy,
I had this bus accident,
declared dead,
and I was entering
that tunnel of light.
And now I know that
depending on your religion,
at that time I didn't know,
I was six years old.
I was Christian,
so [I’d] meet Jesus.
Elona, my wife, is Jewish
so she might meet Moses.
Others meet Buddha,
Ramtha, Krishna.
And that became
my passion, to paint
those circles of life.
I've painted them now
for 60 some years.
I've learned a lot about them.
If I walk into that light
right there, I’m going to
be passing onto
the other side of the light.
So what is here on
the other side of the light?
With all my heart, it’s God.
You’ll see God
when you get over
this channel of light there.
So for most people
who think they are dust,
they will turn to dust,
they’re worth nothing,
no, no, no, no.
You are the light
that will return to light.
You are God
that will return to God.
Through the profound
experience of light and God,
Niska arrives
at his insightful view
of the nature
of this worldly existence.
Art evolved over the years.
You see in many,
many of my paintings.
You see that straight line
here, you see?
And in 1990,
I stopped putting dates
on the paintings.
That was through
my spiritual growth
and consciousness, that
we’re not really immortal;
we’re more eternal.
I’m not the expert
in language
but I mean we were
not really ever born
nor will we really ever die.
We borrow the body
for a period of time,
so that’s a life span,
this is your life,
from there to there.
So what’s a 50, 75, 100
years, or billions
and billions of years?
By meaning we are
immortal, eternal,
meaning that we’ve
always been linked to God
and we’ll always be,
but we might not
have our actual vehicle –
I call sometimes “a car”
that we borrow to visit Her.
We will be back with
more on Niska’s paintings
and the artist’s insights
about his direct experience
with God.
Please stay tuned
to Supreme Master
Television.
God.
I am just fascinated
with God.
I realize that
we are able to find God
and connect [with] Him.
We only find God through
our own experience.
Did you know that?
Nobody can teach;
nobody has God.
We can inspire you
to start on the path
and make your path,
but you will find it
by yourself.
They cannot prove God
to you, nobody,
and nobody will ever.
You can prove only God
to yourself.
Welcome back to
A Journey through
Aesthetic Realms
on Supreme Master
Television.
In today’s show,
we are featuring
Canadian spiritual artist
Niska, who is known as
“the Painter of the Soul.”
To cultivate
his connection with God,
Niska starts his days with
prayer and meditation.
Then with fresh inspiration,
he delves right into art.
He once said in an interview,
“It's my life, I meditate
and paint, eat and sleep.”
All my life,
the purpose of meditation
is to contact God.
Your inner God, contact
this infinite nothingness.
You know we think
that God is everything
but just it’s partial,
God is everywhere.
But as I painted,
I do not realize
I was actually meditating;
so as I did it full time,
I was not, thank God,
a school teacher
or things like that,
to teach art.
I love our teachers and
to think I was blessed,
to be able to paint
and paint.
So suddenly I started
seeing those lights
coming up in my life,
like the monks in Tibet
or some other places
that meditate
4 to 8 hours every day.
After a few years they
start seeing those lights,
they actually see them.
So me as I paint them
and because
if I didn’t see them,
I couldn’t paint them,
but they took me many,
many years to see them.
But then also that’s
the purpose of meditation,
contacting with God
and then you grow.
I found out
that God is very polite.
He’s a good friend,
but He’s very polite.
And I think some experts
could confirm to you
that the average brain
functioning between 2 to
5 hundred words a minute;
if your emotions are there,
it goes fast fast fast.
So God is quite polite.
So what you want to do
with meditation
is to lower
this scrambling of thoughts
fighting all over,
and when you get to
about 100 words a minute,
great, He tries to squeeze
a word in, you know?
So, He’s so polite that
He will not interrupt you.
So if you don’t shut up,
you’ll never
hear about Him.
The paintings of light
created after meditation
bear the power
of inner God connection,
touch people’s souls,
and benefit
even their physical lives.
Niska’s wife Elona
shares with us
her own experience.
Yes, when I was doing
my master thesis and
I had one of his paintings
above my computer.
And he said to me,
“Why don’t you let yourself
go into the light?”
He said, “So then
you could be inspired
and write it faster and
it’ll go easier for you.”
And I said,
“Listen... it’s for McGill,
and I need to do
an analysis, political and
economical and historical.
How was the light
going to help me?”
Because I was just starting
my spiritual growth.
I had ideas about it
as a kid, but we never
learned about it in school.
It’s 3 in the morning,
and there I was
with that painting and
I suddenly found myself
having this inner dialogue
with his painting,
and it was helping me
connect with my inner light
and my inner guide,
which I slowly discovered
more and more over time.
And what happened
in the end
was what normally
would have taken me
probably a year –
I was working at the time,
full time –
I did it in three months,
weekends and evenings.
I was so inspired
by the painting,
the words just typed
out of my fingers
and I started to discover
the power of the light.
If I hadn’t lived it I would
have never known it,
and after that
when I handed it in,
I wrote a lot of things
in that thesis that I might
normally not have written.
And I said,
“Oh, I don’t know
if they are going like it.”
They may fail me because
I was quite audacious
in what I had to say.
It was quite forthright.
I tried to say it
diplomatically, but
I still said certain things
that the paintings
encouraged me.
They said,
“Go for it, go for it.”
The light in the paintings
said, “Go for it.”
But after that
when I got back my results
in the mail, I opened it up
and they wrote that,
“The joy of a teacher
is when the child
surpasses the master,”
and I started to cry,
you know.
And I realized,
I didn’t say I am so bright,
but I said the light
when you connect
with your inner voice
and you allow yourself
to be inspired,
you can reach heights and
a sense of boundlessness
that you don’t know
really exist before.
So, that was
a life-changing moment
for me when I realized
I want to spend more time
understanding
what that was all about,
and the power of that,
that really
transforms your life
and brings you to places
where you don’t think
ever existed.
The life-changing
experience of Elona
is not an isolated incident.
Through contemplating
on God’s light, many people
have found the source
of lasting happiness.
In Niska’s words,
“With God,
you are never alone.”
One of our big, big
suffering in humanity
presently is loneliness.
People live in huge towers
and couples can’t
keep their parents home,
so the little ones
are often alone,
and the older ones
are very alone.
We feel alone because
we have the illusion,
I think, of being
disconnected from God.
If we knew
we are connected to God,
how could you feel alone?
I know He’s there,
He’s helping me all the time.
So that’s why I made
this beautiful painting
“With God,
We Are Never Alone.”
We sincerely thank
Niska and Elona
for sharing with us
the essential message
of light and God.
We will continue
with part 2 next week,
here on
Supreme Master Television.
For more about
Niska’s paintings,
please visit
Radiant viewers, thank you
for your presence
on today’s episode
of A Journey through
Aesthetic Realms.
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