Questioner (Q): Acharya Ji, there are different planes of love possible – mental, spiritual, physical. But somehow, to me, they seem different. It may be because that I have been raised this way that I intertwine these two – mental and physical plane. And that is how I come to see the world as well.
I have been made to believe that I am not that beautiful, but I still want someone beautiful in my life as a partner. That may not be possible, because the other person too may want someone beautiful enough.
But there may be a case that someone connects with me at the mental plane, and wants to be with me at the physical plane as well.
Acharya Prashant (AP): That too depends on your definition of yourself.
If you take yourself as primarily physical, then beauty too for you would be something just physical. You will look at the woman most capable of successfully reproducing. That’s Prakritik definition of beauty. Do you understand this?
What is the Prakritik definition of beauty?
What is Prakriti? Physical nature, this that we see all around us. Here, don’t we have beautiful stuff? Tell me the beautiful stuff that you find in physical nature, and you will be astonished that in physical nature, most of that which you call as ‘beautiful’, is nothing but that which leads to procreation.
