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= What is beauty Beauty =
<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. </div> <div style="color:#000000;"br>The divine expresses itself as knowledge on the mental plane, power on the vital plane, love on the psychic plane, and beauty on the physical plane. When we rise high above, we discover that these four aspects unite with each other in a single consciousness, full of love, luminous, powerful, beautiful, containing all, pervading all. </div> <div style="color:#000000;"br>The master and mover of our works is the One, the Universal and Supreme, the Eternal and Infinite, the unexpressed and unmanifested Ineffable above us, but He is also the self of all beings, the Master of all worlds, the Light and Guide, he is the All-Beautiful and All-Blissful, the Beloved and the Lover. Though we know it not, we ourselves, are the being of his being, force of his force, conscious with a consciousness derived from his; even our mortal existence is made out of his substance and there is an immortal within us that is a spark of Light and Bliss that are forever. It is this spark in us, the soul, which turns towards Truth, Good, and Beauty because it is by these things that it grows in stature. One feels a deep detachment for all things in the world, an imperious need to find something truly beautiful, good, and fresh, this quite naturally develops into a spiritual aspiration. When the soul becomes visible in the physical, it gives this dignity, this beauty, this majesty; then, even things that have no particular beauty put on a sense of eternal beauty. Beauty is a thing that moves and evokes a great respect always. But beauty alone is not sufficient, it wants to become divine. A pure sense of beauty can be acquired only through purification and gets its full power only when surrendered to the divine. This sense of love, joy, and beauty are also what comprises the very stuff and nature of delight. To bring the Divine Love and Beauty and Ananda in the world is, indeed, the whole crown and essence of the Yoga. </div>
<div style="color:#000000;">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>
= Why is Beauty important Important =
<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. </div>
<div style="color:#000000;">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 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.</div>