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The vital is a strange creature, a being of passion, enthusiasm, and naturally of desire but it is capable of getting enthusiastic over something beautiful and getting converted, it can get carried away, seized by an ambition to do the same thing, and becomes a powerful instrument.</div>
= How to Cultivate Beauty ? =
<div style="color:#000000;">For something beautiful to express itself, needs a good instrument - a body with mental, vital, psychic, and physical capacities. If what you do is beautiful, good, and harmonious, your atmosphere will be beautiful. When the surroundings, circumstances, atmosphere, and above all the inner attitude are altogether of a low kind, love is reluctant to come and generally does not stay long. To have a beautiful and harmonious life calls for an imperious need to be sincere and absolute in one’s consecration to the Divine. Let beauty be your constant ideal, beauty of the soul, of sentiments, of thoughts, of the action, of the work, so that nothing comes out which is not an expression of pure and harmonious beauty. From beauty to greater beauty, from joy to intenser joy, by an especial adjustment of the senses, is the normal course of gradual divine manifestation in Matter.
By encouraging the beautiful movements and instincts in children, and becoming sensitive of when there is a beautiful movement, to capture it, cultivate it, and not forget, by holding it constantly and seeking it. By becoming aware of the ugliness of the movements of the lower nature in us under the pretext that they exist, not to accept and enjoy them, but to get rid of them and create a life of spiritual beauty and perfection. But even while the lower movements are active, the higher can descend, if there is an opening at all, before the lower movements have definitely gone.
When the spirit in us is free, then what was behind this soul-force comes out in all its light, beauty, and greatness. There is, behind all things, a divine beauty, a divine harmony: it is this we must come in contact with, it is this we must express. This can happen only if one is not stopped by the appearance, physical or moral or aesthetic, but gets behind and comes in touch with the divine Spirit, the Divine Soul in things. And to have the sense of true beauty which is quite independent of all tastes that belong to a particular race or group - one must have a universal consciousness. Otherwise, there are preferences, if not active ones, there are subconscious preferences, instincts, which is why the widening of consciousness is indispensable. And once you’ve known beauty beyond every form, you can recognize it in any form whatsoever, indifferently.