Responding to beauty || Neem Candies

You are saying that you step out and you look at the opposite sex and feel attracted, and you are calling it a problem. To deal with the problem, first of all, there must be a problem. The man is charming—how is that a problem? The woman is beautiful and attractive—how is that a problem? The flower is aromatic, nature is so very seductive—are these problems?

Please go into the real problem. You find somebody’s face beautiful and it is a problem for you? Would you rather have ugly faces around you? If beauty is a problem, then surely the solution is ugliness. Is that what you want? Does the problem not lie in one’s incapacity to respond to beauty? Or does the problem lie in beauty? If the beautiful flower is a problem, crush it. Is that what you want to do?

We do not know how to deal with beauty, because to deal with beauty, you must know how to deal with God, how to deal with yourself—because God, the Self, is the only source of all beauty.

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