A yogi's hands, folded into a namaskar, is all you can see. The rest of his body is buried in sand, through which he somehow breathes

Think about it. Of the many things a lot of us feel sceptical about, abstract art and spiritual god-men might just top the list. For one, both work on us at a visceral level - art is hard to define; holy god-men attempt to define our lives wholly. In either case, they do something to you. Or they don't. There's no other way to see it.