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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">"Harmony and beauty of the mind and soul, harmony and beauty of the thoughts and feelings, harmony and beauty in every outward act and movement, harmony and beauty of the life and surroundings, this is the demand of Mahalakshmi.... Where love and beauty are not or are reluctant to be born, she does not come."(The Mother, 12 May 1951)<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-may-1951#p1</ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">When the spirit in us is free, then what was behind this soul-force comes out in all its light, beauty and greatness, the Spirit, the Godhead who makes the nature and soul of man his foundation and living representative in cosmic being and mind, action and life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/soul-force-and-the-fourfold-personality#p2</ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Bhakti and the heart's call for the Divine have a truth—it is the truth of the divine Love and Ananda. The will for Tapasya has in it a truth—it is the truth of the Spirit's mastery over its members. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">The musician and poet stand for a truth, it is the truth of the expression of the Spirit through beauty</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. There is a truth behind the mental Affirmer; even there is a truth behind the mental doubter, the Russellian, though far behind him—the truth of the denial of false forms. Even behind the two vital personalities there is a truth, the truth of the possession of the inner and outer worlds—not by the ego but by the Divine. That is the harmonisation for which our Yoga stands—but it cannot be achieved by any outward arrangement, it can only be achieved by going inside and looking, willing and acting from the psychic and from the spiritual centre. For the truth of the being is there and the secret of Harmony also is there.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-adwaita-of-shankaracharya#p25</ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">It is, then, in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">highest mind of thought and light and will or it is in the inner heart of deepest feeling and emotion that we must first centre our consciousness,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">in either of them or, if we are capable, in both together,—and use that as our leverage to lift the nature wholly towards the Divine. The concentration of an enlightened thought, will and heart turned in unison towards one vast goal of our knowledge, one luminous and infinite source of our action, one imperishable object of our emotion is the starting-point of the Yoga. And the object of our seeking must be the very fount of the Light which is growing in us, the very origin of the Force which we are calling to move our members. Our one objective must be the Divine himself to whom, knowingly or unknowingly, something always aspires in our secret nature. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">There must be a large, many-sided yet single concentration of the thought on the idea, the perception, the vision, the awakening touch, the soul's realisation of the one Divine.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">There must be a flaming concentration of the heart on the seeking of the All and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Eternal and, when once we have found him, a deep plunging and immersion in the possession and ecstasy of the All-Beautiful. There must be a strong and immovable concentration of the will on the attainment and fulfilment of all that the Divine is and a free and plastic opening of it to all that he intends to manifest in us. This is the triple way of the Yoga.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/self-consecration#p18</ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">There is, behind all things, a divine beauty, a divine harmony: it is with this that we must come into contact; it is this that we must express. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2312/self-consecrationarts#p18p60</ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">There One must be very much higher on the scale to see that what one does isugly. One must already have at the core of oneself a kind of foreknowledge of what beauty, behind all thingsnobility, a divine beautygenerosity are, a divine harmony: it is with this to be able to suffer from the fact that we must come into contact; it is this that we must expressone doesn't carry them within oneself.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1203/artsconjugate-verses#p60p103</ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">One must be very much higher on When the scale to see adverse forces are dealt with in the right way, all that what one does is ugly. One must already have at the core of oneself a kind of foreknowledge of and false disappears to leave place only for what beauty, nobility, generosity are, to be able to suffer from the fact that one doesn't carry them within oneselfis true and beautiful.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0315/conjugateadverse-versesforces#p103p28</ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">When To accept the adverse forces are dealt with in uglinesses of the lower nature under the right way, all pretext that they exist―if this is ugly what is meant by realism―does not form part of the sadhana. Our aim is not to accept these things and false disappears enjoy them, but to leave place only for what is true get rid of them and create a life of spiritual beauty and beautifulperfection. That cannot be done as long as we accept these uglinesses.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1514/adversedesires-forcesimpulses-and-self-control#p28p8</ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">To accept the uglinesses of the lower nature under the pretext that they exist―if this is what is meant by realism―does not form part of the sadhana. Our aim is not ..to accept these things and enjoy them, but to get rid be in such a state of them purity and create a life of spiritual beauty that you do not perceive ugliness and perfection. That cannot be done as long as we accept these uglinessesevil—it is like something that does not touch you because it does not exist in you.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1410/desiresaphorism-impulses-and-self-control49#p8p5</ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">...You can hear poor music, even music from which one would like to be in such a state of purity run away, and beauty that yet you can, not for its outward self but because of what is behind, enjoy it. You do not perceive ugliness lose the distinction between good music and evil—it bad music, but you pass through either into that which it expresses. For there is like something that does nothing in the world which has not touch its ultimate truth and support in the Divine. And if you because it does are not exist stopped by the appearance, physical or moral or aesthetic, but get behind and are in touch with the Spirit, the Divine Soul in things, youcan reach beauty and delight even through what affects the ordinary sense only as something poor, painful or discordant.</span>(The Mother, 28 April 1929) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1003/aphorism28-april-491929#p5p18</ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">You can hear poor music, even music from which one would like ...to run away, and yet you can, not for its outward self but because be positively conscious of what is behind, enjoy it. You do not lose the distinction between good music supreme Good and bad musicsupreme Beauty behind all things, but you pass through either into that which it expresses. For there is nothing in the world which has not its ultimate truth sustains all things and support in the Divineenables them to exist. And if When you see Him, you are not stopped by the appearance, physical or moral or aesthetic, but get able to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perceive Him behind this mask and are in touch with the Spiritthis distortion; even this ugliness, this wickedness, the Divine Soul in thingsthis evil is a disguise of Something which is essentially beautiful or good, you can reach beauty and delight even through what affects the ordinary sense only as something poorluminous, painful or discordantpure. <ref>http://incarnateword.(The Mother, 28 April 1929)in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p9</ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">It is one of the greatest weapons of the Asura at work when you are taught to shun beauty. It has been the ruin of India. The Divine manifests in the psychic as love, in the mind as knowledge, in the vital as power and in the physical as beauty. If you discard beauty it means that you are depriving the Divine of this manifestation in the material and you hand over that part to the Asura. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0313/28-april-1929india#p18p224</ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">...to be positively conscious of the supreme Good and supreme Beauty behind all things, which sustains all things and enables them to exist. When you see Him, you are able to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perceive Him behind this mask and this distortion; even this ugliness, this wickedness, this evil is a disguise of Something which is essentially beautiful or good, luminous, pure.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p9</ref> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">It is one of the greatest weapons of the Asura at work when you are taught to shun beauty. It has been the ruin of India. The Divine manifests in the psychic as love, in the mind as knowledge, in the vital as power and in the physical as beauty. If you discard beauty it means that you are depriving the Divine of this manifestation in the material and you hand over that part to the Asura.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/india#p224</ref> <div style="color: #000000;">...a girl who had no education whatever; she was a dancer and danced tolerably well. After she took up Yoga, she danced only for friends; but her dancing attained a depth of expression and beauty which was not there before. And although she was not educated, she began to write wonderful things; for she had visions and expressed them in the most beautiful language. But there were ups and downs in her Yoga, and when she was in a good condition, she wrote beautifully, but otherwise was quite dull and stupid and uncreative. </div> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">(The Mother, 28 July 1929)</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/28-july-1929#p7</ref> </div>
<div style="color: #000000;">...one must have a universal consciousness in order to see and recognise it [beauty]. For instance, if your consciousness is limited to one place, that is, it is a national consciousness (the consciousness of any one country), what is beautiful for one country is not beautiful for another. The sense of beauty is different. For example (I could make you laugh with a story), I knew in Paris the son of the king of Dahomey (he was a negro—the king of Dahomey was a negro) and this boy had come to Paris to study Law. He used to speak French like a Frenchman. But he had remained a negro, you understand. And he was asked (he used to tell us all kinds of stories about his life as a student), someone asked him in front of me: "Well, when you marry, whom will you marry?"—"Ah! a girl from my country, naturally, they alone are beautiful...." (Laughter) Now, for those who are not negroes, negro beauty is a little difficult to see! And yet, this was quite spontaneous. He was fully convinced it was impossible for anyone to think otherwise.... "Only the women of my country are beautiful!"</div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Only those who have developed a little artistic taste, have travelled much and seen many things have widened their consciousness and they are no longer so sectarian. But it is very difficult to pull a person out of the specialised tastes of his race—I am not even speaking now of the country, I am speaking of the race. It is very difficult. It is there, you know, hidden right at the bottom, in the subconscious, and it comes back without your even noticing it, quite spontaneously, quite naturally. Even on this very point: the woman of your race is always much more beautiful than the woman of other races—spontaneously, it is the spontaneous taste. That's what I mean. So, you must rise above that. I am not even speaking of those who find everything that's outside their own family or caste very ugly and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">bad. I am not speaking at all of these people. I am not even speaking of those for whom one country is much more beautiful than another. And yet, these people have already risen above the altogether ordinary way of thinking. I am not even speaking of a question of race.... It is very difficult, one must go right down, right down within oneself into the subconscious—and even farther—to discover the root of these things. Therefore, if you want to have the sense of beauty in itself which is quite independent of all these tastes, the taste of the race—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">you must have a universal consciousness</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. Otherwise how can you have it? You will always have preferences. Even if these are not active and conscious preferences, they are subconscious preferences, instincts. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">So, to know true beauty independent of all form, one must rise above all form</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. And once you have known it beyond every form, you can recognise it in any form whatsoever, indifferently. And that becomes very interesting.(The Mother, 21 October 1953)</span> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/21-october-1953#p61</ref> <div style="color: #000000;">...the close and vivid discovery of soul or self, the straining towards that which is behind life and above mind, the passion for the Eternal or the Infinite, the hunger for a freedom and wideness of consciousness and existence not limited by the narrow moulds of intellect, character and the past life-aims of humanity, the thirst for union with the Divine or for the pure bliss and beauty of spiritual existence not tied down to mental and vital values must be dismissed as a superfluous dream for which there is neither place nor necessity here.</divspan>
<div style="color: #000000;">...the close and vivid discovery of soul or self, the straining towards that which is behind life and above mind, the passion for the Eternal or the Infinite, the hunger for a freedom and wideness of consciousness and existence not limited by the narrow moulds of intellect, character and the past life-aims of humanity, the thirst for union with the Divine or for the pure bliss and beauty of spiritual existence not tied down to mental and vital values must be dismissed as a superfluous dream for which there is neither place nor necessity here. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/morality-and-yoga#p20</ref> </div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">That [feeling the Mother's Presence, Love, Joy, Beauty] is one part of the psychic experience—the other is a complete self-giving, absence of demand, a prominence of the psychic being by which all that is false, wrong, egoistic, contrary to the Divine Truth, Divine Will, Divine Purity and Light is shown, falls away, cannot prevail in the nature. With all that the increase of the psychic qualities, gratitude, obedience, unselfishness, fidelity to the true perception, true impulse etc. that comes from the Mother or leads to the Mother. When this side grows, then the other, the Presence, Love, Joy, Beauty, can develop and be permanently there.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-psychic-being-and-its-role-in-sadhana#p5</ref> </span>
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