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That G. R. Santosh was the pioneer of neo-Tantra movement in Indian modern art is a well-known fact. But the complex compositions of his tantra works are not so easily understood because his was not a simplistic rendition of this complex philosophy in an aesthetic presentation. After an epiphanic moment at the Amarnath cave in Kashmir in 1964, he immersed himself in the study and practice of tantra, and his paintings became expressions of meditative and intuitive reflections of mantric reverberations that he followed with a discipline. The form symbolises a being seated in a meditative posture, experiencing the union of Shiv and Shaki, or Purush and Prakriti, the male and female principles. The colour purple represents the crown chakra or sahasrara chakra in Hath Yoga.