Gattam Pattam
Īśāna.
Shore Temple, Mahabalipuram.
"A great oriental work of art does not easily reveal its secret to one who comes to it solely in a mood of aesthetic curiosity or with a considering critical objective mind, still less as the cultivated and interested tourist passing among strange and foreign things; but it has to be seen in loneliness, in the solitude of one's self, in moments when one is capable of long and deep meditation and as little weighted as possible with the conversions of material life."
˜Sri Aurobindo on Indian Architecture
Īśāna.
Shore Temple, Mahabalipuram.
"A great oriental work of art does not easily reveal its secret to one who comes to it solely in a mood of aesthetic curiosity or with a considering critical objective mind, still less as the cultivated and interested tourist passing among strange and foreign things; but it has to be seen in loneliness, in the solitude of one's self, in moments when one is capable of long and deep meditation and as little weighted as possible with the conversions of material life."
˜Sri Aurobindo on Indian Architecture