Acharya Prashant: So, what are we talking about today?
The voice of the Heart. The beautiful voice of the Heart, rather.
‘Beautiful’ — that reminds me of a city. They, just like you, were enamoured with beauty. They wanted to know, what makes the sky beautiful. What is the most beautiful thing in the sky? So the scientists, the astronomers, and the common public alike, they all got into a great debate. They wanted to know, “What is most beautiful about the sky?”
At first rose the voices of the common folks, a few said, “The moon”. Somebody said, “The Sun”. Others talked of the stars and still others talked of the planets. Some of them came up with very nice poems, praising the beauty of the objects that attracted them.
Then came the learned gentry. They started talking of comets, asteroids, and constellations. One star was not enough for them, so they said, “Look! How groups of stars get together to give us vivid images”. And they surely silenced those who were talking merely of one isolated star, here or there.
And then came the really learned ones – the scientists. The ones who had spent years and years with telescopes. They talked of nebulae, black holes, galaxies, proto-planetary disks. They said, “Do you know how beautiful they look? Come, your naked eyes show you nothing! All you see are these gross moons and the Sun. We will show you the real wonders of the sky! See what all keeps happening!”
