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<div style="color:#000000;">Aesthetic Sense </div> <div style="color:#666666;">The ability to perceive beauty even where it is not apparent and to welcome beauty into one's daily life.</div><br>

<div style="color:#000000;">Aesthetic sense is what helps us perceive beauty through our senses or through inner attunement. Art, music, poetry , and nature are a few of the sensory stimulants that have a formative effect on the aesthetic sense of an individual. But that is not all! The aesthetic sense is also evoked when one witnesses witness acts of generosity, truthfulness , and harmony. This is because there is an intrinsic relationship between aesthetics and ethics. In the lower nature, both have the capacity to create opposites such as good - bad, like - dislike or beautiful - ugly as mere reactions of the individual consciousness. However, when one uses their one's inner senses, one can perceive a sort of universal beauty present in all things. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/26-december-1956#p23</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/27/beauty-in-women#p18</divref>

<div style="color:#000000;">The recognition = Stages of beauty gives birth to a sense of gratitude and wonder by which one is able to accept and enjoy all experiences on their journey for they are able to see the beauty hidden in all things. This adds joy and delight to the ardour of progress. It brings a refinement in the way we express ourselves and harmony in our surroundings, relationships, and in ourselves. </div>Aesthesis ==

<div style="color:#000000;">The development There are three stages of a sense of beauty is accompanied with an aspiration aesthesis, moving from instinctive to rational to be beautiful and a need for harmonybeyond reason. This becomes the seed for widening one’s perspective and prevents us from falling prey to the sectarian, divisive forces that demand our attention and drain our energy<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/07/1-june-1955#p24</divref>

== Stages of Aesthesis*Infrarational Stage: ==In this stage, one simply finds something beautiful, without offering any explanation.

<div style="color:#000000;">There are three stages of aesthesis, moving from instinctive to rational to beyond reason. </div> <div style="color:#000000;">Infrarational *Rational Stage: In this stage, one simply finds something beautiful, without offering any explanation. </div>  <div style="color:#000000;">Rational Stage: In this stage, one’s 's mental understanding of why something is beautiful is central. </div>  <div style="color:#000000;">Suprarational Stage: In this stage, one’s aesthetic sense is in harmony with the higher realm. </div>

<div style="color:#000000;">The cultivation of a true aesthetic sense begins with a cultivation of our senses of perception. At first, the intention is to encourage recognition of what is beautiful - for when we are able to perceive and receive the ‘beautiful’, we aspire for beauty. </div> <div style="color:#000000;">However, the recognition of what is beautiful brings with it a sense of discernment of what is not beautiful or not in harmony with this aspiration. It is then that we enter the rational stage and begin to question why something is beautiful while something else is not. This is a stage characterised by polarity - for shadows can only be cast where there is light. </div>  <div style="color:#000000;">The suprarational stage of aesthesis - where one can begin to see universal beauty without reasoning and polarising - calls for a new understanding of perfection, a purification of the self, a strong will and a sense of detachment. Below, light has been shed on each of these aspects.</div>  <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> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''Purification: '''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The disharmonious movements of our being can be conquered by acknowledging the transformative power of beauty. Little by little, the parts of us that are not in harmony with the whole can be refined and transformed by directing the light towards them i.e. becoming conscious of them and offering them. </span> 

<div style="color'''Perfection:#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;">Will: It it is the absence of nothing. However, this is not always easy to face say that we must accept and conquer our shadows after having experienced lightenjoy ugliness. It creates When the being is harmonised around the soul center, perfection becomes a feeling of sinking and loss of controlnatural harmonious outflow. This is where purification comes in. One must have a strong will to control one’s imagination and direct it towards beauty and light<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/10/aphorism-63-64-65#p24</divref>

<div style="color'''Will:#000000;">Detachment: The experience of something beautiful can bring with it ''' It is not always easy to face and conquer our shadows after having experienced light. It creates a feeling of desiresinking and loss of control. In such One must have a state, strong will to control one is not able to truly enjoy the 's imagination and direct it towards beauty and is controlled by their likes and dislikeslight. A true aesthetic sense does not seek to possess or judge the object of beauty<ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwm/09/3-september-1958#p15</divref>

== Cultivating Aesthetic Sense in  Children 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;">When guiding a child who is making any kind of art, one must encourage the child to express their truth rather than emphasising technique. Probe them to make paintings inspired by their surroundings, but do not insist on details. It is their impression or experience of the object that needs capturing. It is that which authenticates their relationship with beauty. </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. </divref>  <div style="colorhttp:#000000;">When a child recognises disharmony //incarnateword.in/cwm/09/31- in their bodies, for example july- encourage them to see the possibility for harmony in their body as opposed to feeling powerless and pitiful. Use “my arms must be proportionate, my body must be harmoniousâ€� over “it is a pity my arms are too thin for the rest of my bodyâ€�. 1957#p8</divref>

<div style="color:#000000;">The purpose pull between light and shadow in the vital can be resolved by the development of Integral Yoga is an aesthetic sense - the transformation ability to perceive beauty even in places where it may not be evident. The development of our superficial, narrow and fragmentary human way an aesthetic sense is accompanied by a sense of thinking, seeingequanimity, 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 state of lifenon reactive composure. This requires a transformation of all parts of being - the mind, is the body, state where the vital energies, and psychic and spiritual transformation. The vital is particularly difficult duality ceases to transform exist and conquer. Aesthetic sense is a great help in one can access the full potential of the processvital being. </div>

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