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.
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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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wearing divine garlands and garments, anointed with divine fragrances, all-wonderful, resplendent, infinite, facing in every direction.
दिव्यमाल्याम्बरधरं दिव्यगन्धानुलेपनम् | सर्वाश्चर्यमयं देवमनन्तं विश्वतोमुखम् ||११-११||
Indeed, it is this Krishna of boundless and radiant energy who has created the forests and the mountains.
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.
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.
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace and goodwill towards all people.
The heart that has been consumed by worldly desires cannot be influenced by higher feelings and cannot be shaped into a beautiful form.
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.
Among the Sama hymns I am the Brihat-saman; among meters, the Gayatri; among months I am Margashirsha; among seasons, the flowering spring.
बृहत्साम तथा साम्नां गायत्री छन्दसामहम् | मासानां मार्गशीर्षोऽहमृतूनां कुसुमाकरः ||१०-३५||
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.
गुरुगीताक्षरैकं तु मन्त्रराजमिमं जपेत् । अन्ये च विविधा मन्त्राः कलां नार्हन्ति षोडशीम्
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.
अथ काम्यजपे स्थानं कथयामि वरानने । सागरे वा सरित्तीरेऽथवा हरिहरालये
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.
कृमिकीटभस्मविष्ठा दुर्गन्धिमलमूत्रकम् । श्लेष्मरक्तं त्वचा मांसं वञ्चयेन्न वरानने
Thy Curly Locks in tangled Masses fall / About thy Rosy Cheeks that hold me thrall, / On every separate Strand of thy soft Hair / There hangs a Heart, — a Heart upon them all.
The Mountain Tulip lasts but seven days, / The River Violet lives but seven days, / And I will cry the news from town to town / That Rosy Cheeks keep faith but seven days.
O thou whose eyes are shadowy with kohl, / O thou whose slender figure works my Dole, / Whose locks with musk are laden, art thou dumb, / That thus with Silence thou shouldst rend my Soul?
Thy pictured Beauty, Love, ne'er leaves my Heart, / Thy downy cheek becomes of me a part, / Tightly I'll close mine eyes, O Love, that so / My Life, before thine Image, shall depart.
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.
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.
सो कुल धन्य उमा सुनु जगत पूउज्य सुपुनीत, श्रीरघुबीर परायन जेहिं नर उपज बिनीत
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.
Glory to You, O Rāma, perpetual abode of bliss. O Hari, O Chief of the Raghus, bearing a bow and arrows!
जयति राम जय लछिमन जय कपीस सुग्रीव, गर्जहिं सिंघनाद कपि भालु महा बल सीव