The shine of gloss is the beauty of the core || Acharya Prashant, with youth (2013)
Speaker: Gloss is what is perceivable to the senses. Gloss is your actions, your appearance, your voice, everything. Core is the essence from which all your actions arise. Core and Gloss are inseparable; they are not at all two different entities. I do not know how you are carrying the conception that there is a Core and there is Gloss. Core and Gloss are one, just as mind and body are one. Mind is to body is, what Core is to Gloss. We said that when the mind is afraid, the body starts shivering. Now, you cannot see the fear of the mind, but you can see the shivering of the body. That is the only difference between Core and Gloss.
Core cannot be seen through the senses, Gloss can be seen through the senses, but Core and Gloss are one and the same thing. When Core becomes apparent, it becomes Gloss; when Gloss goes to its roots, it’s called Core. They are not different at all. What is different from these two is something called mask, the unreal, the fake, the personality, like the fake smile, like the lip gloss, like the fake eye-brows, like fake accents, like plastic surgery, like fake words; this is mask. This is not coming from the core, this is artificial. Core and Gloss are one. Gloss is the healthy expression of the Core but that expression does not always take place. That expression takes place only in an environment of attention, that expression takes place only when the mind is innocent, not cunning. When the mind is cunning, then instead of the healthy and natural gloss, you put on a fake mask.
So, the second part of your question, ‘how to remove the gloss?’, anyways is invalidated. How can you remove the gloss? It’s like asking. ‘how to remove the brightness of the Sun?’ Till the day the Sun has core of burning helium, the brightness will be there. You cannot remove it and it is great that you cannot remove it. It is great that all of us have a natural gloss. It is great that a healthy girl will have naturally beautiful
