Beauty

                                                            

                          We live in a beautiful world and the things that signify and stand for beauty may be of different categories. The instantaneous, short-lived and temporary beauty and the ever green and permanent beauty are mainly two classes of beauty. The external or temporary means of beauty does not hold attraction for long and captures our heart only for a while whereas the eternal and  permanent sources of beauty enraptures our life and everlastingly reside’s in our hearts till the moment we don’t shed our bodies and travel into other realms. External or temporary sources of beauty which if lost a grip on to may leave us in states of  sorrow and despair whereas beauty which is eternal, which naturally signifies reality, leaves us no ground for a single complaint. Permanent and eternal sources of beauty stands for Reality whereas external and temporary sources of beauty signifies unreality. This is the sole reason why materialists face moments of great tragedy when the temporary means of beauty and attraction they value so much is suddenly taken away from them or when they lose control over their so much desired object of attraction. On the other hand, spiritually advanced beings who have realized the beauty of the human soul are in constant and around the clock moment’s of jubilation and great celebration.

                          The materialists may define beauty by owning a fast car, getting into a relationship with a stunning and attractive woman, earning big bucks by hook or crook and meeting bank accounts that meet the multi-million dollar mark, taking a ride on a private yatch to cruise around the world, maybe owning a private jet  or having extra marital affairs with a string of women. Money, women and sex may be all that beauty stands for an atheist whereas a young man who has reached the highest state of the most Supreme Reality and has beautified  his soul may be in constant jubilation and celebration every second of the day and every second of the night. Luxury, money women and sex signifies beauty for the materialists and the atheists whereas the beauty of being in complete union with God is what real beauty and attraction stands for the spiritually advanced beings. “What kind of beauty does God want human’s to rejoice in?” All beauty that stands for the non-material existence is the kind of beauty to which God want’s to draw the lone individual to and a life with great beauty through a love theme is what God want’s to draw married couples to. In other words, God think’s the human intellect and the ordinary human heart are inadequate to get to know what genuine beauty is all about but rather thinks the soul is an efficient tool because real beauty cannot be evaluated by and praised by the human brain and the ordinary human heart but can only be gauged and admired by the depths of a fully awake soul.

                          Admiring medium of beauty which is unrealistic is superficial because such sources of beauty is not what Reality is all about and does not give permanent happiness whereas in fact everlasting happiness, satisfaction and fulfillment is only gained when one becomes great admirers of sources of  Realistic beauty . Means of beauty which is external, unrealistic and temporary provide’s short lived happiness and satisfaction whereas sources of beauty which is realistic, internal and permanent establishes us in an everlasting reservoir of happiness, satisfaction and fulfillment. Everything that the human mind shackles us to does not give us real joy but the unlimited and Infinite expanse of beauty that the fully awake soul captures gives us permanent bliss ever after.

                              We start being great admirers of genuine beauty when we become successful in transcending that which is transient. Genuine beauty is God and we start being great and authentic devotees of beauty when we are lucky enough to transcend the fourth spiritual centre or Anahat chakra. Till the fourth spiritual centre we have been depending on passion, lust, women, a powerful libido, sex etc falsely assuming that these are the areas where great attraction and beauty lie but after we are spiritually efficient enough to transcend the transient field, we start comprehending the word beauty very very Realistically. The superhuman attraction to “Untouched Virgin Beauty” is the primary feature from this field onwards. The overpowering pull of the sex centre which were making us slaves to sex had cast our eyelids closed to the real world of genuine beauty but now that the transient has been transcended, we have been successful in establishing ourselves as great devotees of beauty, love and goodness.

                             Physical features and physical beauty such as a long flowing blonde hair, perfectly chiseled features, a six foot frame, a muscular body, dark tanned or a fair complexion, a feminine body the size of a coca-cola bottle, dark deep eyes, a flawless masculine or a feminine feature is not what real beauty all about. Nor are the male and female physical proportions or structures and the various relatives of sex what genuine beauty all about. According to spiritual vocabulary, the male and female physical proportions and the word sex is not what beauty and Reality all about but these are in actual terms, material, external or atheistic aspects and exactly the opposite contexts of a spiritual aspirant, spiritualism, soul  nature, Enlightment and God. In other words, the word physical beauty, is only skin deep and it would not be a mistake to profess physical and sexual attachment as “God Detatchment”.

                           "What is the criteria that one should look in a potential soulmate?" A competent individual looks for the correct combination of beauty, brains and the heart if that person is looking for a stable and steady relationship instead of a very short fling desired to obtain temporary accomplishments. By beauty, we may imply not physically attractive beauty but inner beauty of everlasting value’s like some deep devout feelings she may have for God, maybe an innocent or modest nature or the ideology of chastity she has in her, especially reserved for her future soulmate. A competent brain implies being wise enough to be fully prepared for her upcoming future life and its challenges with her soulmate. Endowed with an equally good heart ensures virtuous qualities for an exact life with her soulmate. In my perspective, inner beauty, with a mixture of the beauty of the mind and the beauty of the heart is what is required for an ideal relationship. If we want to figure out what is it that gives such a perfect combination, it is only the spiritual growth process and nothing else. A quality of all these attributes in a normal human being is very rare because purified humanistic qualities, purity of thought and purity of the heart can  be perfected only and only through a committed spiritual practice.

                          We start becoming  great admirers of natural beauty, Mother Nature, along our gradual awakening process to the state of Ultimate Reality. Our heart skips a beat when we pause for a moment to admire the sheer splendour of Mother Nature. Real beauty to a highly advanced spiritual aspirant would be a brook streaming through bits and pieces of rocks, the dense foliage and the lush green vegetation of forests along the mountain ranges which fills him with so much energy, the Alps and the snow capped Himalayas with its snow peaks soaring up to enormous heights or the flight of the handsome migrating cranes across the sky. The untouched virgin beauty of Mother Nature is a great delight to the spiritual man and admiring the natural architecture of nature is a favourite pastime to him. Beauty to him is God and he captures and realise’s God’s Omnipresent spirit in each and every beautifying existence of our most beautiful, Mother Nature.

                        The beauty of the Infinite and Eternal Existence, the entire manifested Universe, is another source of attraction to the spiritual man. He arranges enough time during the late evenings to romance with the stars overhead, the glow of the full moon humbles him more than enough to applaud the  significant creation of God and the setting crimson sun casting the evening sky with orange pattern’s makes him realize that he would not be without the presence of the Sun God. The stars, moon and the sun which are an expanded form of his individual Self makes him realize that one would not be without the other and the unsynchronisation of the Universal planetary system would mean the expanse of the Cosmos devoid of God’s creation.

                      Internal, non-material and Realistic beauty can only be comprehended by the soul abilities of the spiritual man. That which fluctuates, wavers and gives us occasional suffering is not real beauty and cannot give us complete fulfillment but instead we should aspire to reach that state of perfection from which level we can establish ourselves as Enlightened beings so that we can grasp Enlightened beauty completely. May we all, beautiful people, learn to abide by theistic and beautiful aspects so that we will be able to comprehend beauty in its totality during this very precious life of ours on planet earth.
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