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<div style="color:#000000;">The physical world is the world of form, and the perfection of form is beauty. Its role is to put the manifested nature in contact with the Eternal through the perfection of the form.

Seeking for beauty is instinctive, it’s a kind of harmony which you experience much more than you think, and the true suprarational relation with beauty is not at all a reasonable relation, it completely overpasses reason, it is in contact with a higher realm. But when this instinct is mixed with movements of ignorance and a lack of culture and refinement, one can experience aesthetic pleasure in something which is not beautiful, but which gives one some sort of pleasure, because it is not pure and mixed with all kinds of crude and untrained sensations. Here, reason has some role to play, to educate the taste, to explain why a thing is beautiful. This is the rational stage of beauty, but it is not final, it can very well make mistakes, only it is a little higher in judgment than that of a completely infrarational being who has no reason or understanding of things that it likes, but to realize true beauty one must go beyond. Everything in the manifested universe is relative, i.e., there is no beauty which may not appear ugly in comparison with a greater beauty, neither no ugliness which isn’t more beautiful than some other ugliness. But the supramental beauty is something much higher and more perfect, untainted by any ugliness. When the supramental force descends into Matter, this beauty will express itself quite naturally and spontaneously in all forms.</div>

<div style="color:#000000;">The joy and satisfaction of beauty that comes from the perception of the Divine everywhere plunges the nature inward towards its meeting with the immanent Divine in the heart’s secret center, felt as an unconditional calling.