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.