BEAUTY AND UGLINESS IS A FUNCTION OF THE RELATIVE STATE OF MIND.

 

BEAUTY AND UGLINESS IS A FUNCTION OF THE RELATIVE STATE OF MIND.

 

Beauty is generally preferred, and ugliness is disliked. Beauty leads to enticement, while ugliness provokes rejection. No mathematical formula defines any equation between the two except that the mind views the former with preference and reluctance the latter. When we say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ then the reverse that--- ‘ugliness too must be a projection of the mind of the beholder’ would be a true statement.

Does the mind cause deception, or the object defines non-reality?  Both are in a state of relativity. Mind creates an illusion of time and space. What is perceived and inferred are both subject to change (in time and space) and have only a finite existence.

The scenic beauty of mountains from a “distance” is very serene and soothing. As one treads on a mountain, its immediate proximity reveals that it is full of twisted trees with dry leaves of bare and dry roots, uneven stones and rocks, bushes and shrubs, infested with insects, bugs, and creepy creatures. The same space creates a beautiful scene from a distance, and that same space abolishes that beauty from proximity. What is the real attribute of the mountain? A serene, soothing experience or its raw nature? Reverse the process of seeing—first seeing a mountain from proximity and then capturing it from a distance. The route is then of ugliness flowering into beauty.  Both are entwined.

 

A beautiful young girl cheers up the hearts of many by her very presence. In the old age of ‘sixty’ years, the beauty withers away, and the same girl now turned ‘woman’ has no appealing effect on the beholders. The time—the agent of change—has transmuted the beauty into a sight of much lesser beauty externally.  The same beauty appears to have turned into an unsightly object. Her individualized beauty carries beauty and ugliness, which our limited mind fails to decipher. When this woman is beheld at the age of ‘eighty’ years, her appearance at sixty years would appear to be a picture of beauty. The ‘lack of beauty’ of sixty years is now understood as beauty.

 

The above explains the state of relativity in the material world. Both beauty and ugliness, good or bad, virtues and vices, and even all opposites are merely experiential phenomenon at that point in time and space. No experience may, therefore deemed to be Real or Absolute.

 

That is why Mystics call this world and life unreal or illusion.