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ART IN BENGAL VAISHNAVISM 85 of what we call beautiful. And Shree Krishna or the Ultimate Reality is, therefore, not the Beautiful of European philosophy, but Rasamritamurti, the eternal embodiment of all rasa or romance. This concept Nikhila- rasamritamurti sums up not only the entire philosophy of our Yaishnavic art but also the deepest and the highest realisation of the Vaishnava piety of Bengal. It is this which distinguishes Bengal Yaishnavism among the many Yaishnavic schools of mediae- val India.
