He interrupted us ,smiling,
In our endless daydreams,
An earth would come alive
Where stone feet touched .
Thick conical stone leaves
Intertwined with his torso
Hid a splendid nakedness
From that sleeping world.
We felt small, in our flesh,
When an earth came alive.
( The statue of Gomateswara , a Jain saint stands tall at Shravanabelagola in Karnataka- the world’s biggest monolithic statue constructed in the 10th century )
Indian Sensibility 