Power of your Beauty

 

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Power of your Beauty

Swamiji says – “The power of (your) beauty too is not your power, it remains only as long as the beauty lasts”. When one tries to understand this statement, one has to try and understand it from the point of external beauty – that is the beauty of the physical body and form and one’s inner beauty. When one is young and healthy one’s physical fitness and facial beauty is reflected in the confidence with which one carries oneself, knowing full well the magnetic attraction of your own beauty. This is reflected in how one carries oneself with confidence and how one interacts with others.

But is this beauty permanent? No! With age the beauty starts to disappear, unless of course one is very particular about one’s health and diet, and even then, the beauty of youth never returns. Therefore, it is of utmost importance that one does not develop an ego about one’s health and beauty.

What is left for us to interpret in Swamiji’s quote is – inner beauty, is that permanent? Your inner beauty is 100% about you as a person, your goodness, your compassion, your kindness, your love – all that radiates through your being – and here age really does not matter. But again, this beauty will only last till you regularly practice meditation and mindfulness. If there is a break, then the negativity in the world will end up polluting your inner beauty and you will end up losing that radiance which surrounds your being.

The magnetism which you acquire through meditation is because your aura becomes pure and starts radiating love and compassion. Power/beauty is the living out of one’s essence. It is not power ‘over’ or power ‘in order to’, but being 100% oneself, and living in the truth of who you actually are.

The energy of form is tangible and visible while the energy of consciousness is intangible and invisible. While these energies are intertwined and they do ‘influence’ each other, they cannot be ‘sourced’ in each other. Spiritual energy cannot be acquired from matter and material energy cannot be acquired from the spiritual energy that is consciousness.

The enlightened soul knows they are designed to ‘give to’ the natural world. They give the gift of their own beauty. They give the kind of vibrations that can help to heal and encourage the growth of nature’s variety. And it is only as they do, that they may notice they are uplifted and healed in themselves. They know that nature’s outer beauty is only a reminder of one’s own inner beauty.

Therefore, to conclude, one can confidently say that one’s outer beauty and the power one derives from it is temporary and deteriorates with time, but your inner beauty is enhanced with the passage of time as your spiritual practise ensures that what is beautiful within you is reflected in your external persona – age no bar!