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<div style="color:#000000;">The beginning of the heart's attraction to the Divine may be impersonal, the touch of an impersonal joy in something universal or transcendent that has revealed itself directly or indirectly to our emotional or our aesthetic being or to our capacity of spiritual felicity. That which we thus grow aware of is the Ananda Brahman, the bliss existence. There is an adoration of an impersonal Delight and Beauty, of a pure and an infinite perfection to which we can give no name or form, a moved attraction of the soul to some ideal and infinite Presence, Power, existence in the world or beyond it... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-ananda-brahman#p2</ref></div>
<div style="color:#000000;">It (spiritual bliss) may present itself first as a yearning for some universal Beauty which we feel in Nature and man and in all that is around us; or we may have the intuition of some transcendent Beauty of which all apparent beauty here is only a symbol. That is how it may come to those in whom the aesthetic being is developed and insistent and the instincts which, when they find form of expression, make the poet and artist, are predominant. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-ananda-brahman#p3</ref></div>
<div style="color:#000000;">Yes, this beauty of soul that is visible in the face, this kind of dignity, this harmony of integral realisation. When the soul becomes visible in the physical, it gives this dignity, this beauty, this majesty, the majesty that comes from one's being the Tabernacle. Then, even things that have no particular beauty put on a sense of eternal beauty, of it the eternal beauty. (The Mother, 1 July 1958) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/july-1958-1#p3</ref></div>
= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Why is it Important to Have Aesthetic Sense?</span> =
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">But the way the world is organized, people without aesthetic needs go back to a very primitive life—which is wrong. We need a place where life... where the very setting of life would be, not an individual thing, but a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">beauty that would be like the surroundings natural to a certain degree of development.</span><div style="color: #000000;"> (The Mother, 25 March 1970) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/11/march-25-1970#p49</ref></divspan>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">The aesthetic downfall is perhaps due to other causes, a disappointed idealism in its recoil generating its opposite, a dry and cynical intellectualism which refuses to be duped by the ideal, the romantic or the emotional or anything that is higher than the reason walking by the light of the senses. The Asuras of the past were after all often rather big beings; the trouble about the present ones is that they are not really Asuras, but beings of the lower vital world, violent, brutal and ignoble, but above all narrow-minded, ignorant and obscure. But this kind of cynical narrow intellectualism that is rampant now, does not last—it prepares its own end by increasing dryness—men begin to feel the need of new springs of life.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0066cc;"><u><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p43</ref></u></span>
<div style="color: #000000;">An ordinary consciousness, altogether ordinary, dull like all ordinary consciousness—as soon as it sees something beautiful, whether it be an object or a person, hop! "I want it!" It is deplorable, you know. And into the bargain it doesn't even have the joy of the beauty, because it has the anguish of desire. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/9-february-1955#p7</ref></div>
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/9-february-1955#p7</ref> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">But for one who has more inner sensitivity, appearances are no longer deceptive and he can perceive the ugliness hidden beneath a pretty face and the beauty concealed beneath a mask of ugliness.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-297-298#p6 http:</ref></incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-297-298#p6]span>
<div style="color: #000000;">You can read sacred books and yet be far away from the Divine; and you can read the most stupid productions and be in touch with the Divine.</div>
<div style="color: #000000;">There is a way of consciousness in union with the Divine in which you can enjoy all you read, as you can all you observe, even the most indifferent books or the most uninteresting things. You can hear poor music, even music from which one would like to run away, and yet you can, not for its outward self but because of what is behind, enjoy it.</div>
<div style="color: #000000;">And if you are not stopped by the appearance, physical or moral or aesthetic, but get behind and are in touch with the Spirit, the Divine Soul in things, you can reach beauty and delight even through what affects the ordinary sense only as something poor, painful or discordant.</div><div style="color: #000000;">(The Mother, 28 April 1929) </div> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/28-april-1929#p18</ref></div>
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