.Beauty in
Ugliness
Tejinder Narang
Khalil Gibran, Lebanese
philosopher narrates-- “Once
Beauty and Ugliness met on sea shore. And they said to one another, "Let
us bathe in the sea." They disrobed
and swam in waters. After a while Ugliness came back to shore, wore garments of
Beauty and walked away. Beauty came
later, found not her raiment, was too shy to be naked, therefore clothed
herself with Ugliness and walked away. To this very day men and women mistake
the one for the other for they identify them from external dressed appearance.
White Moon ( as Kolaveri Di song
goes ) in black night with starry carpet appears to be a disc of beauty. The same
moon during bright day is of no consequence at all. Objectively,
both beauty and ugliness have zero intrinsic worth or reality save the manner evaluated
in human mind in terms of time, space and relationship between the observed and
the observer.
In mysticism, “Beauty and Ugliness” delineate “spirituality and
superficiality” respectively. The soul ‘beautiful’ after swimming in sea of
mind and Maya, phenomenon of change and illusion, is drenched in ugliness. Explains
Gibran—those (mystics) who “beheld the face of Beauty” (of marked souls)
recognize the radiant spark of the Lord, longing to be one with their Creator
and anoint them for Deliverance, notwithstanding their ugly garments. Mystics also “know face of Ugliness”
(souls enamored with trinkets of transient reality) and let them rejoice as a
part of this creation.
Really true. One easily mistakes beautiful for ugly and vice versa. Blessed are those whose pious souls are accepted in the court of Lord
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