The characteristic and most universally known image of the “mystic East” is Buddha seated in the full lotus position, or the Bhagavad Gita's image of a yogi who withdraws his senses, tortoise-like; yet popular religion in India very often vividly engages the senses. It floods human organs of perception with colorful festivals, with song and dance, food and bright decorations, sexy goddesses and an elephant headed God of auspicious beginnings, noise and crowds. That may not seem very meditative or yogi-like, but where there is seeming contradiction there may also be scope for deeper discoveries and fuller understandings.
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