Beauty
Beauty is the special divine Manifestation in the physical as
Truth is in the mind,
Love in the heart,
Power in the vital.
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Beauty is the way in which the physical expresses the Divine -
but the principle and law of Beauty is something inward and spiritual
and expresses itself through the form.
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Beauty is Ananda taking form - but the form need not be a physical shape. One speaks of a beautiful thought, a beautiful act, a beautiful soul. What we speak of as beauty is Ananda in manifestation;
beyond manifestation beauty loses itself in ananda,
beauty and Ananda become indistinguishably one.
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(Sri Aurobindo, "Integral Yoga")
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Seeing beauty is also:
seeing the soul behind, the spirit,
seeing two lines , hues, harmonies and expressive dispositions... thus bringing into the object something that is in oneself, transmuting it by adding out of one's own being to it - as the artist too does something of the same kind but in another way.
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(idem, adapted)
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June 02, 2008
