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<div style="margin-left:0cm;margin-right:0cm;"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Perfection: '''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We think of perfection as something that must be acquired, a state of goodness, absent of all things bad and ugly. This is a very divisive understanding of the word. Perfection is a state of wholeness; it is the absence of nothing. However, this is not to say that we must accept and enjoy ugliness. When the being is harmonised around the soul center, perfection becomes a natural harmonious outflow. This is where purification comes in.</span></div>

<div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Will: '''</span> It is not always easy to face and conquer our shadows after having experienced light. It creates a feeling of sinking and loss of control. One must have a strong will to control one's imagination and direct it towards beauty and light. </div>

<div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Detachment: '''</span>The experience of something beautiful can bring with it a feeling of desire. In such a state, one is not able to truly enjoy the beauty and is controlled by their likes and dislikes. A true aesthetic sense does not seek to possess or judge the object of beauty. </div>

== Cultivating Aesthetic Sense in Children ==

<div style="color:#000000;">A child should be encouraged to recognise beauty and bring it into their everyday life. Every action must be carried out with a sense of beauty and harmony. This must be done for the love of beauty, not to attract attention or please others. It is much more difficult to tell a story that is beautiful from beginning to end without using catastrophe and sensationalism to attract attention. </div>

<div style="color:#000000;">Efforts must be made to help the child see the inherent beauty in all things. When a child is exposed to ugliness, it is not advisable to say that that is how life is. Instead, one must say that there is a beauty behind this ugliness waiting to be realised. This creates a sense of possibility as opposed to the fatalism of the former statement. </div>

<div style="color:#000000;">When a child recognises disharmony - in their bodies, for example - encourage them to see the possibility for harmony in their body as opposed to feeling powerless and pitiful. Use of arms must be proportionate, my body must be harmonious over it is a pity my arms are too thin for the rest of my body. </div>

== Aesthetic Sense and Integral Yoga ==

<div style="color:#000000;">The purpose of Integral Yoga is the transformation of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way of thinking, seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness, an integrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the divine way of life. This requires a transformation of all parts of being - the mind, the body, the vital energies, and psychic and spiritual transformation. The vital is particularly difficult to transform and conquer. Aesthetic sense is a great help in the process. </div>

<div style="color:#000000;">The Vital Being is the seat of life force; of an unprecedented energy. It is passionate and powerful but it can also be desirous and impressionable. It is reactive when it is exposed to cruelty, injustice or anger. The very same vital, when placed in a harmonious, good environment is capable of great things. Art, music, dance and poetry have the power to connect us with the divine. It is no wonder that these are used as forms of worship and aids for concentration. </div>

<div style="color:#000000;">The pull between light and shadow in the vital can be resolved by the development of an aesthetic sense - the ability to perceive beauty even in places where it may not be evident. The development of an aesthetic sense is accompanied by a sense of equanimity, a state of non reactive composure. This is the state where the duality ceases to exist and one can access the full potential of the vital being. </div>