Series: Atmanubhava-5

 
Symbolization is a universal human process. It is the most important human trait that man can create and use symbol. This trait differentiates humans from all other living species and plays a crucial role in intellectual history of mankind. Human beings with their ability to fabricate symbols from their experience and to communicate these through the medium of symbols are classified as homoymbolicusy anthropologists referring to them as a species that creates and communicates explicitly though symbolic encoding.

According to Vaishnava tradition, kaivalya or happiness of one's true state comes only after the experience of true self (atmanubhava). The individual jiva is truly a servant of God, but because of ignorance and attachment, he becomes a slave of his senses and mind and forgets his connection with God and the true nature of himself. 

Abstract art is an ideal vehicle for communicating spiritual realities for several reasons. It removes viewers from the world they think they know and allows them to focus their contemplation on symbols, the experience of a work, or its meditative character. .