Beauty is a mental
concept
Maya havocs through the imagination of the
mind. Woman is not beautiful, but the imagination is beautiful. Sugar is not
sweet, but the imagination is sweet. Food is not palatable, but the imagination
is palatable. Man is not weak, but the imagination is weak. Understand the
nature of Maya and mind and become
wise. Curb this imagination of the mind by Vichara
or right thinking and rest in Brahman
wherein there is neither imagination nor thought.
Beauty and ugliness are false imaginations of the mind. Mind itself is a false
illusory product. Conceptions of the mind also must therefore be false. They
are all like a mirage in the desert. What is beautiful for you is ugly for
another. Beauty and ugliness are relative terms. Beauty is only a mental
concept. It is only a mental projection. It is only a civilized man who talks
much of the symmetry of form, good features, graceful gait, elegance of manners
and graceful form.
An African Negro has no idea of all these
things. Real beauty is in the Self only. Beauty resides in the mind and not in
the objects. Mango is not sweet; the idea of mango is sweet. It is all Vritti. It is all mental deception,
mental conception, mental creation, mental Srishti.
Destroy the Vritti; beauty vanishes.
The husband stretches his own idea of beauty in his ugly wife and finds her
very beautiful through passion. Shakespeare has rightly expressed this in his
"Mid-summer-Night’s Dream": "Cupid is painted blind. It finds
Helen’s beauty in the brow of Egypt".
The Indriyas and the mind delude us
at every moment. They are our real enemies. Beauty is a product of mental
creation. Beauty is a product of the imagination. An ugly woman appears very
beautiful only in the eyes of her husband. Where is the beauty, Dear friends,
in the wrinkled skin of an old woman? Where is the beauty when your wife is
bedridden? Where is the beauty when your wife gets angry? Where is the beauty
in the dead body of a woman? The beauty in the face is a mere reflection. The
real un-decaying Beauty of beauties—the fountain of beauties—can be found in
the Atman only. We have ignored the
substance and caught hold of a broken piece of glass. What a serious blunder
have we committed by our impure thoughts, impure mind, impure Buddhi and impure way of living! Have we realized our
mistake? Will we open our eyes at least now?
A beautiful wife is very charming. She is very sweet when she is young, when
she smiles, when she puts on beautiful dress, when she sings when she dances
But she is horrible to look at when she loses her temper, when she quarrels
with her husband for not getting silk sarees
and gold necklace, when she suffers from acute abdominal colic or some such disease
and when she becomes old.
For
a few years Nature bestows on woman her gift of special beauty, charm and
elegance in order that she may capture the hearts of men. Beauty is skin-deep
only. It will soon fade, the hair will become gray and the skin will soon be
filled with wrinkles. The tailor, the weaver, the embroiderer, the toilet maker
and the goldsmith make us beautiful for a few seconds. Man, in his excitement,
infatuation and delusion, forgets this point. This is Maya. Never trust this Maya.
In
this Kalyuga we find a change now Researcher has reason out
in many aspect. A team of researchers from the University of Exeter have
revealed in a new study that infants just a few hours old showed their
preference for attractive faces compared to plain ones.
According
to The Daily Mail, the researchers
came to the conclusion after carrying out the study that if photos of an
attractive fashion model and a plain-looking woman are kept together, newborns
will be drawn towards the prettier face.
The
finding undermines the theory that people develop the idea of beauty from the
experience of interacting with different individuals
In
fact, it now appears that everyone is born with a pre-programmed understanding
of what makes a person attractive.
"Attractiveness
is not simply in the eye of the beholder. It's in the eye of the infant right
from the moment of birth, and possibly before birth,"
The
researchers found that babies generally would flick their gaze between one
picture and another, but spent significantly more time looking at the fashion
model than the plain-looking woman.
The
Exeter team tested infants averaging two days old, but the group also included
some born only a few hours earlier. Each baby was held in front of the pictures
and closely watched by researchers to the left and right.
Wake
up! What is Truth…………….? and will remain truth…………… Find out the Beauty of
beauties, which is within you, which is your innermost Self. Woman should sing
like Mira and merge in Mira’s Girdhar Nagar. Have we ever
paused and considered what constitutes the basic’ ladies who excite lust in us?
A bundle of bones, flesh, blood, urine, facial matter, pus, perspiration,
phlegm and other dirt! Will we allow such a bundle to become the master of our
thoughts? Will we exchange our birthright of eternal peace and happiness for
such a fleeting, filthy mess of pottage? Shame on us! Were we will, we reason
and our discrimination given to us only for such an inglorious end? Have we not
heard and seen that physical beauty is only skin-deep and at the mercy of every
passing accident, illness and year?
Illusion
nothing is non-perishable, permanent and real in the world, Nature and
Universe. Even the human body, youth, beauty and strength are all not permanent
and cannot give peace and happiness forever. Therefore attachment to materials,
land, ladies, name, fame, power and position should be curtailed. The mind
should be purified and kept free from the evils such as desire, jealousy, lust,
anger, fear, etc. For everything is illusion and nothing is real, imperishable,
permanent and eternal except the soul or the atman or the inner spirit which is
the part and parcel of the all pervading spirit. Meditation should be done
often in the thought of God, the infinite power of eternity. That is the way to
overcome illusion and reach reality.
