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Dancing Rishis

And as for the strangeness and formidable aspect of certain unhuman figures or the conception of demons or Rakshasas, it must be remembered that the Indian aesthetic mind deals not only with the earth but with psychic planes in which these things exist and ranges freely among them without being overpowered because it carries everywhere the stamp of a large confidence in the strength and the omnipotence of the Self or the Divine.

Sri Aurobindo

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Dancing Rishis, Natamandapa, Sun Temple of Konarak, thirteenth century. Photograph by Elizabeth Beck.