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  1. What is the role and purpose of art and an artist? What is the relationship between spirituality and artistic expression?

    Life is art. Art is appreciating what ‘is’. If there is a heap of flower, you would just see it as a heap of flower. But if you appreciate it and put it in a certain pattern, then you call it an art.Art is conveying something to you. A ...
  2. Dear Gurudev, can you please explain how to overcome attachment, and what to do about the attachment for you? These days it has become very painful.

    You cannot hide love. Nor can you express it fully. This has been the story of love since ages. When there is love, it oozes out and you see it in your eyes, and in your actions. Love can never be hidden, and yet it can never be expressed fully. However mu ...
  3. Gurudev, I get deeply troubled when I look at an elderly person's body. I realize that aging is inevitable, but it bothers me all the same. What can I do about it?

    When the beauty inside blossoms, the older you get, the more beautiful you look. Sacrifice, love and service, these three things should be present in life. Look at Mahatma Gandhi, did he not become more attractive as he grew older. His smile was ...
  4. Gurudev, is it okay to see someone's beauty? Is it not lust to look at someone's beauty?

    You see beautiful things in the world and every beautiful thing should remind you of the divinity. Then the beauty itself becomes a prayer. This is what is Soundarya Lahari. Adi Shankaracharya wrote beautiful shlokas (sanskrit verses) called Soun ...
  5. What does beauty mean according to you?

    If someone has a beautiful mind, that is real beauty. ...
  6. Beauty

    Once beauty is awakened in one's heart, it spreads throughout the three bodies: gross, subtle and causal. It is the whisper of pure consciousness tapping the source, bring with the source. From there waves of beauty, waves of bliss are created at all ...
  7. Beauty

    Beauty is a personal phenomenon. Something happens in you- an exclamation, a wave rising in the ocean- that blows the mind away. If it were not personal, it could not be divine. The divine is always personal. ...
  8. Quote

    Just wake up and see that you are beautiful. The innocence in you is so beautiful. The dance in you is so beautiful.   ...
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    When a flower hits you, it wakes you up, but you don't feel a pinch. Beauty is such an awakening. Beauty shakes you somewhere so deep inside that you cannot be in sleep.   ...
  10. Quote

    Once beauty is awakened in one's heart, it spreads throughout the three bodies: gross, subtle and causal. It is the whisper of pure consciousness tapping the source, bring with the source. From there waves of beauty, waves of bliss are created at all ...