Our definitions of beauty and greatness are all egoistic. Something is beautiful if it corresponds with our likes and with our taste — then we call it beautiful. Whereas the real definition of beauty is that which silences you, that which does not leave you even in a position to utter a "Wow!" That's beauty. That which takes you beyond yourself — that's beauty.
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Questioner: Hello, Acharya Ji. Good evening. Are you able to hear me?
Acharya Prashant: Yes.
Questioner: Acharya Ji, I wrote down my question on a notepad so that I'm not going here and there. What I understood in general from all your videos and all your discourses so far is that the purpose of life is simply liberation. There's nothing else to it — just get liberated and just be free. So, if that is the end goal or end attempt, then what about all the human progress that we have made so far in terms of art, music, poetry, the Egyptian pyramids, the Taj Mahal, etc.?
Are these simply non-essential byproducts of human attempts to liberate himself and nothing else but just Maya? So, we would have been the same even without these? It would have made no difference in our attempt to liberate ourselves?
