The Mother's Institute of Research © Author All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission from the author or the publisher. First Edition, 2011 ISBN: 978-81-909651-6-3 Published by: Popular Media, Jhilmil Industrial Area, Delhi 110095 popularmedia@ymail.com , popularmedia.in KIREET JO SHI K

PHILOSOPHY OF INDIAN ART From various accounts which have evidential value, it is clear that India pursued the quest of the knowledge and the experience of reality through a multiple and even integral approach. The basic quest of India was to discover the causes of disintegration and to find effective remedies by which disintegration can be prevented. In positive terms, this was the quest for immortality, and the ancient literature gives us convincing proof of this quest as also of the victory that was attained. We also find accounts of the processes by which this victory was attained. In this process the major role was played by a difficult psychological disc