Adhi shankara spoke about dispassion,detachment,and renuncition.However he foresaw that if he only talked about renucition.people might start liking and encouring sadness . He did not want people to stop appereciating beauty.so he sang a hundred veres of beauty.
Beauty has threre levels:indication,expersssion and exposure,Spirituality indicates, art expresses and science exposes.
The divine is beauty.and beauty is divine.Deva means one who loves to play.one who is effulgent glorious and one who plays.Demons fight,men live in peace,and gods play.Playfulness cannot happen if there is no beauty,they go togheter.Enthusiasm.the same force that is beauty.creates playfulness.Beauty is associated with sheyness enhances beauty. For example, a small child sometimes makes a very shy face. When everyone notices and appreciates the child, he just hides his face. Likewise, shame is a part of ugliness. Shyness softens you; ugliness or shame hardens you. When a person feels ashamed, he becomes hard inside and becomes violent.
The way of Gods, the way of the wise has always been indirect. There is a saying in Sanskrit, 'Paroksha priya hi vai devaha?' which means, 'Gods love indirect methods'. Poetry is indirect. It is exaggeration. The heart always exaggerates, while the mind puts the fact forward. Fact is intellectual. But when it comes from the heart, the fact is decorated. It becomes doubly beautiful.
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