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"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 [https://ie.auroville.org.in/index.php/M#MAH.C4.80LAK.E1.B9.A2MI Mahalakshmi].... Where love and beauty are not or are reluctant to be born, she does not come." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-may-1951#p1</ref>
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[https://ie.auroville.org.in/index.php/B#BHAKTI Bhakti] and the heart's call for the Divine have a truth—it is the truth of the divine [https://ie.auroville.org.in/index.php/L#LOVE Love] and [https://ie.auroville.org.in/index.php/A#.C4.80NANDA Ananda]. The will for [https://ie.auroville.org.in/index.php/T#TAPASY.C4.80 Tapasya] has in it a truth—it is the truth of the Spirit's mastery over its members. The musician and poet stand for a truth, it is the truth of the expression of the Spirit through beauty . 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 [https://ie.auroville.org.in/index.php/E#EGO ego] but by the Divine. That is the harmonisation for which our [https://ie.auroville.org.in/index.php/Y#Yoga 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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-adwaita-of-shankaracharya#p25</ref>
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...from the [https://ie.auroville.org.in/index.php/S#SUPRAMENTAL supramental] point of view beauty and harmony are as important as any other expression of the Divine. But they should not be isolated, set up apart from all other relations, taken out from the ensemble; they should be one with the expression of life as a whole. People have the habit of saying, "Oh, it is an artist!" as if an artist should not be a man among other men but must be an extraordinary being belonging to a class by itself, and his art too something extraordinary and apart, not to be confused with the other ordinary things of the world. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/28-july-1929#p15</ref>
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