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Beauty

Across world spiritual traditions, beauty is often associated with the sublime and transcendent. Many traditions converge on the idea that beauty is a reflection of the divine or ultimate reality. However, traditions diverge in their interpretations and perspectives on beauty, offering unique insights.

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I come to the palace of the creator. I am the glory of the brahmins, the glory of the kings, and the glory of the commoners. I wish to attain that glory. I am the glory of all glories. May I never go to the place of suffering.
Vedic Sages
HinduScriptureAttainmentBeautySanskrit
The Upanishads, p. 319
Because you desired wisdom above all else, and did not ask for victory over your enemies, or riches, or long life, I will give you not only the wisdom you asked for to rule my people righteously, but also the things you did not ask for: riches, wealth, and glory, so that there will be no king like you before or after you.
St. John of the Cross
ChristianScriptureKnowledgeLonging
Ascent of Mount Carmel, p. 348
The psychic personality within us blossoms as the saint, the sage, or the seer. When it reaches its full potential, it directs the being toward self-awareness and the divine, toward the highest truth, goodness, beauty, love, and bliss, and the divine expanses, opening us to the experience of spiritual sympathy, universality, and oneness.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingAttainmentLove
The Life Divine, p. 253
Wearing divine garlands and garments, anointed with divine fragrances — all-wondrous, the God, infinite, facing every direction.
Sanjaya
HinduParableVisionBeautySanskrit
Bhagavad Gita 11.11
Indeed, it is this Krishna of boundless and radiant energy who has created the forests and the mountains.
Vyasa
HinduTeachingBeautyCreationSanskrit
Mahabharata, p. 5434
This secret psychic entity is the true, original conscience within us, deeper than the conventional conscience constructed by moralists. It always points us towards truth, rightness, beauty, love, harmony, and all the divine possibilities within us, persisting until these become the primary needs of our nature.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingHarmonyLove
The Life Divine, p. 253
The mind is unable to possess the infinite, it can only be affected by it or be completely taken over by it. All it can do is blissfully surrender to the real, under the radiant presence that extends from planes of existence beyond its grasp.
Sri Aurobindo
HinduTeachingHappinessMind
The Life Divine, p. 188
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace and goodwill towards all people.
Swami Sivananda
HinduScriptureBenevolenceHarmony
Bliss Divine, p. 39
The heart that has been consumed by worldly desires cannot be influenced by higher feelings and cannot be shaped into a beautiful form.
Ramakrishna Paramhamsa
HinduTeachingLustMaterialism
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna, p. 38
My Divine Mother is not only formless, but she also has forms. One can see her forms and behold her incomparable beauty through feelings and love.
Ramakrishna Paramhamsa
HinduTeachingLoveOneness
The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, p. 143
God has placed a torch of knowledge and beauty within our hearts. It's a sin to let that torch fade away and be buried in ashes.
Kahlil Gibran
UniversalScriptureKnowledgeSin
Flash Back, p. 64
Among the Sāma hymns I am the Bṛhatsāman; among metres I am the Gāyatrī; among months I am Mārgaśīrṣa; among seasons I am the flower-bearing spring.
Krishna
HinduScriptureBeautyGodSanskrit
Bhagavad Gita 10.35
Every single syllable of the Guru Gītā is the sovereign mantra — chant it. All other various mantras do not equal even one-sixteenth part of a single syllable of the Guru Gītā.
HinduScriptureGuruOnenessSanskrit
Guru Gita 133
O beautiful-faced One, now I shall describe the places suitable for recitation done with a specific desire: at the seashore, on the bank of a river, or in a temple of Viṣṇu or Śiva.
HinduScriptureAttainmentLongingSanskrit
Guru Gita 152
O fair-faced one, do not deceive yourself about the nature of this body — it is the dwelling of worms and insects, destined for ash; it harbors foul waste, excretion, phlegm, blood, skin, and flesh.
HinduScriptureGuruOnenessSanskrit
Guru Gita 30
Nachiketas, you have carefully examined the objects of desire, the pleasant and beautiful things, and you have rejected them. You have not fallen into the trap of wealth that leads many people to destruction.
Yama
HinduTeachingLustBeauty
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 204
The greatest help of all is to be a human center of the Light, the Glory, the Bliss, the Strength, the Knowledge of the Divine Existence, one through whom it will communicate itself abundantly to other people and attract their souls to the Highest with its magnet of delight.
Vedic Sages
HinduTeachingHappinessHelpfulness
The Upanishads — Texts, Translations and Commentaries, p. 175
If there is anyone who is all-beautiful, all-wise, and all-merciful, and who loves the forlorn, it is Rama alone. No one else can compare to him as a selfless friend and giver of eternal bliss.
Tulsidas
HinduTeachingAltruismLoveSanskrit
Ramcharitmanas — Uttar Kand Part 2 (verses 1023–1101), p. 78
Considering this, O Garuda with a resolute mind, abandon all doubts and skepticism, and worship the all-beautiful Rama, the hero of Raghu's lineage, a fountain of mercy and the delight of all.
Tulsidas
HinduTeachingDevotionForgivenessSanskrit
Ramcharitmanas — Uttar Kand Part 2 (verses 1023–1101), p. 22
We always praise your physical form, oh Lord. Oh merciful and radiant Lord, treasure of noble virtues, we ask that we may love your feet, free from all errors of thought, word, and action.
Tulsidas
HinduTeachingLoveMindSanskrit
Ramcharitmanas — Uttar Kand Part 1 (verses 949–1022), p. 20