![]() This image not only defines Krishna's iconic and anatomical form but also reveals such 'bhava', which sublimates the mind and transcends it to spiritual heights. Hence, an ugly image would emit ugliness, and a 'swarupa', only the beauty, auspiciousness, and good. The 'Chitra-sutra' avers that the image would radiate its ambience within and without, with the same 'bhava', emotional bearing, which the image itself has. 'Swarupa', aesthetic beauty, is the foremost condition of such fully evolved image, as the mind naturally inhales beauty and leaves the ugly out. As the 'Chitra-sutra' lays it, the image should so well define the deity that, while meditating on it, the devotee is able to re-create it within him, and then severing ties with the material, meditated only on his intrinsic image. It is unique in its adherence to classical norms, particularly such as in 'Chitra-sutra' the 'Vishnudharmottara Purana' prescribes. The images of Krishna are usually treated with perceptible emotionality, but instead, this image has around it an aura of transcendence. The image uses bold details, but given an exceptionally sensitive treatment, which imparts to it its life vigour, even in such bold details, it discovers its great excellence. ![]()
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