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Sri Aurobindo and Indian Aesthetics – Part 2 (Video)

The author writes: “According to the Indian philosophy of worship, with which are closely allied the origins of art, the ishta devatā or chosen form of deity is but one’s own ideal self, svarupa.”

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Spiritual Motive of Indian Sculptural Art – II

“…the Indian mind moves on the spur of a spiritual sensitiveness and psychic curiosity, while the aesthetic curiosity of the European temperament is intellectual, vital, emotional and imaginative in that sense, and almost the whole strangeness of the Indian use of line and mass, ornament and proportion and rhythm arises from this difference.” Read more.

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