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<span style="color:#000000;">In fact people who work in order to develop their taste, to refine it, are rarely very much attached to food. It is not through attachment to food that they do it. It is for the cultivation of their senses, which is a very different thing. It is like the artist, you know, who trains his eyes to appreciate forms and colours, lines, the composition of things, the harmony found in physical nature; it is not at all through desire that he does this, it is through taste, culture, the development of the sense of sight and the appreciation of beauty. And usually artists who are real artists and love their art and live in the sense of beauty, seeking beauty, are people who don't have many desires. They live in the sense of a growth not only visual, but of the appreciation of beauty. There is a great difference between this and people who live by their impulses and desires. (The Mother, 23 February 1955) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/23-february-1955#p5</ref></span>
<div span style="color:#000000;">In fact people who work For the universal soul all things and all contacts of things carry in order to develop their tastethem an essence of delight best described by the Sanskrit aesthetic term, to refine itrasa, are rarely very much attached to foodwhich means at once sap or essence of a thing and its taste. It is because we do not through attachment to food that they do it. It is for seek the cultivation essence of their sensesthe thing in its contact with us, but look only to the manner in which is a very different thing. It is like the artistit affects our desires and fears, you knowour cravings and shrinkings that grief and pain, who trains his eyes to appreciate forms imperfect and colourstransient pleasure or indifference, linesthat is to say, blank inability to seize the composition of thingsessence, are the forms taken by the harmony found Rasa… If we could be entirely disinterested in physical nature; it is not at all through desire mind and heart and impose that he does this, it is through taste, culturedetachment on the nervous being, the development progressive elimination of the sense of sight these imperfect and the appreciation perverse forms of beauty. And usually artists who are real artists and love their art Rasa would be possible and live in the sense of beauty, seeking beauty, are people who don't have many desires. They live in the sense of a growth not only visual, but true essential taste of the appreciation inalienable delight of beauty. There is a great difference between this and people who live by their impulses and desires. (The Mother, 23 February 1955) <ref>http://incarnateword.existence in/cwm/07/23-february-1955#p5</ref>all its variations would be within our reach…</divspan>
<div span style="color:#000000;">For the We attain to something of this capacity for variable but universal soul all things and all contacts of things carry delight in them an essence of delight best described by the Sanskrit aesthetic term, rasa, which means at once sap or essence reception of a thing things as represented by Art and its taste. It is because Poetry, so that we do not seek enjoy there the essence Rasa or taste of the thing in its contact with ussorrowful, but look only to the manner in which it affects our desires and fearsterrible, our cravings even the horrible or repellent; and shrinkings that grief and pain, imperfect and transient pleasure or indifference, that the reason is to saybecause we are detached, blank inability to seize the essence, are the forms taken by the Rasa… If we could be entirely disinterested in mind and heart and impose that detachment on the nervous being, the progressive elimination not thinking of these imperfect and perverse forms ourselves or of Rasa would be possible and the true essential taste self-defence (jugupsā), but only of the inalienable delight of existence in all thing and its variations would be within our reach…essence… </divspan>
<div span style="color:#000000;">We attain to something of Certainly, this capacity for variable but universal delight in the aesthetic reception of things as represented by Art and Poetry, so that we enjoy there the Rasa contacts is not a precise image or taste reflection of the sorrowfulpure delight which is supramental and supra-aesthetic; for the latter would eliminate sorrow, the terribleterror, even horror and disgust with their cause while the horrible or repellent; former admits them: but it represents partially and imperfectly one stage of the reason is because we are detached, disinterested, not thinking progressive delight of ourselves or of self-defence (jugupsā), but only the universal Soul in things in its manifestation and it admits us in one part of our nature to that detachment from egoistic sensation and that universal attitude through which the thing one Soul sees harmony and its essence… beauty where we divided beings experience rather chaos and discord…. </divspan>
<div style="color:#000000;">Certainly, this aesthetic reception of contacts is not a precise image or reflection of the pure delight which is supramental and supra-aesthetic; for the latter would eliminate sorrow, terror, horror and disgust with their cause while the former admits them: but it represents partially and imperfectly one stage of the progressive delight of the universal Soul in things in its manifestation and it admits us in one part of our nature to that detachment from egoistic sensation and that universal attitude through which the one Soul sees harmony and beauty where we divided beings experience rather chaos and discord…. </div> <div span style="color:#000000;">The full liberation can come to us only by a similar liberation in all our parts, the universal aesthesis, the universal standpoint of knowledge, the universal detachment from all things and yet sympathy with all in our nervous and emotional being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/delight-of-existence-the-solution#p14</ref></divspan>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In the view of old philosophies pleasure and pain are inseparable like intellectual truth and falsehood and power and incapacity and birth and death; therefore the only possible escape from them would be a total indifference, a blank response to the excitations of the world-self… In the freer and higher movements there is demanded of us only a limited and specialised equality and impersonality proper to a particular field of consciousness and activity while the egoistic basis of our practical life remains to us; in the lower movements the whole foundation of our life has to be changed in order to make room for impersonality, and this the desire-soul finds impossible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-double-soul-in-man#p10</ref></span>
<div span style="color:#000000;">The ethical mind becomes perfect in proportion as it detaches itself from desire, sense suggestion, impulse, customary dictated action and discovers a self of Right, Love, Strength and Purity in which it can live accomplished and make it the foundation of all its actions. The aesthetic mind is perfected in proportion as it detaches itself from all its cruder pleasures and from outward conventional canons of the aesthetic reason and discovers a self existent self and spirit of pure and infinite Beauty and Delight which gives its own light and joy to the material of the aesthesis. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-intelligence-and-will#p10</ref></divspan>
== Devotion ==