Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

Indian art soaring into the highest empyrean is ever trying to bring down to earth something of the beauty of the things above." In the opinion of the same writer "Greek art had its cetaurs fauns and satyrs and its patheon of deified heroes but left the prfoundest mysteries of creation to the speculation of philosophers. [...] Why is Jaganath at Puri overlooking the beautiful scenery of the Ocean ? Why is the temple of the Mother at Cape Comorin ? Why is the Kailas or Manasarovar so very holy to the Hindus ? What is the main attraction of Badrinarayan or Kedarnath ? Which was first discovered in Amarnath—the snowy beauty or the God ? Thus the religious background of the race turned every beautiful phnomenon in nat [...] The Buddhist frescoes no doubt attaied this object and by their sheer artitry elevated the individual to the actual realism of the higher beings thus bringing him to the feet of the Master himself." "History furnishes several illustrations of the power of religion in the moulding"1982 THE CALL FROM THE DIVINE 165 of man's aesthetic productions but prbably none of these are more striki [...] Let us observe the mission of the child and the adult in the world not forgetting that the person who forms the adult is the child. [...] that in the system of the world everything fulfils a function and as a part of the whole contributes to the life of the whole.