If Remembering Hari Enriches Your Heart…”: Visual Imagery and Devotional Experience in Bengali Vaishnava Temples

Pika Ghosh

If Remembering Hari Enriches Your Heart…”: Visual Imagery and Devotional Experience in Bengali Vaishnava Temples

Authors

Pika Ghosh

Keywords:

Bengali Vaishnavism, devotional art, temple aesthetics, visual poetry

Abstract

The article “If Remembering Hari Enriches Your Heart…” by Pika Ghosh explores how the Gīta Govinda is manifested visually and ritually in Bengali temples. Ghosh examines temple murals, altar designs, and gestures of devotion that give the poem a multi-sensory presence in everyday worship.