Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Beauty

"I don't consider beauty as the criteria for choosing my wife", I told to my sister in law.She replied,"No matter what all the philosophers of the world say. But ff you get up in the morning with a beautiful face next to you, your day will be great."
There are many who think beauty is not the criteria for choosing once life partner. The arguments they use are, 'It's not about the beauty, but about the nature', 'Faith and fidelity is above beauty', 'Intelligence and smartness has nothing to do with beauty per se','There are many more dimensions in marital relationship than meagre appreciation of each others beauty'. There are such many innumerable arguments in favor of parameters other than beauty.
A wise saying goes 'Beauty lies in the eyes of beholder'. That means beauty is something personal. Each person has different perspective on beauty. Many people may differ on judging a person's beauty. In general, a person is called beautiful if majority agrees to it. But does that defy the opinion of other left-outs who don't conform to masses. Is it that they have subtle sense of beauty than masses don't acknowledge? Or is it that there sense of beauty is rustic or sub-standard that they don't even reach majority view? Whatever be it. It doesn't nonetheless nullifies their judgement. So beauty needs to be re-defined so that it conforms to all.
Still wiser saying goes ' Beauty lies in the eyes of beer-holder'. Nothing laughable in it. This statement has got essence, It beyonds contemporary views on the beauty. It transcends the judgement of beauty from mind to consciousness. An inebriated person never finds anything ugly. For him everyone is beautiful. Beauty is about witnessing. Beauty is not about judgement. If a person judges, he's a technician. He must take one measurement stick and measure all the parts of body and find out one formula that conforms to his sense of beauty. This is what they keep doing. This is what they keep calling beautiful. Utter wrong and uttterly mistaken.
A drunk person never judges, he simply witnesses. He's simply witness. He judges not. Jesus says,'Judge ye not'. All the technicalities of beauty disappears if judgement vanishes. If all are drunk then there won't be any conflict. Because for them everyone is beautiful. This is the state beyond mind and its judgements. This is the state of consciousness.

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