The Release From Deception

 

The Release From Deception

 

Part Three:
13: “There are two selves, the separate ego
And the indivisible Atman. When
One rises above “I” and “me” and “mine”
The Atman is revealed as one’s true self.”

14: “When all desires that surge in the heart
Are renounced, the mortal becomes immortal.

15: “ When all the knots that strangle the heart
Are loosened, the mortal becomes immortal.
This sums up the teaching of the scriptures.”

Katha Upanishad

 

“The Release From Deception” is the name of a statue by Francesco Queirolo, finished in 1753. The Italian name is “Disingammo”. It can be found in Naples Italy, inside the remarkable Sansevero Chapel Museum. The museum and the statue can be found on the Internet. The statue has a tall fisherman who has been caught by his own fishing net. Even the knots within this net have been carved in great detail. Next to him is an angel, who is helping him to get out of the net. The angel sits upon a globe, which then sits upon a pedestal. Propped up against this pedestal, on the floor, sits a large book opened up to a selected page. According to art experts, somehow this statue was created from one piece of marble. How this was done is still being debated.

The two pages of text reads: “I will break thy chain, the chain of darkness and long night of which thou art a slave, so that thou might not be condemned with this world”. This passage resembles closely the lines of
Psalms 107: 10-16. In part it says: “Some sat in darkness and in gloom, prisoners in affliction and in irons…he brought them out of darkness and gloom, and broke their bonds asunder.”