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असली सौन्दर्य की पहचान || आचार्य प्रशांत (2017)
आचार्य प्रशांत
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Beauty
Old Age
Death
Utility
Nature
Surrender
Spirituality
Liberation
Description

Acharya Prashant explains that the fear of blooming is essentially a fear of the end, as blooming represents the climax of life. He observes that a life lived correctly reflects increasing beauty with age, whereas a life lived wrongly leads to ugliness and visible despair in old age. While youth possesses a natural biological charm intended by nature for reproduction, true beauty is spiritual and transcendental, often reaching its peak just before death. He emphasizes that physical beauty is often confused with utility; nature and the mind label things as 'beautiful' based on their usefulness for procreation or personal gain. However, true beauty, which he identifies with the divine or 'Shiva', is non-material and cannot be captured by physical symmetry or artificial means. He further distinguishes between attraction based on consumption and attraction based on surrender. Using the analogy of 'jaggery' versus a 'Guru', he explains that one consumes jaggery for utility, but a Guru 'consumes' the seeker, leading to the dissolution of the ego. He warns that seeking people or objects for their utility eventually leads to boredom and entrapment, as the 'juice' of utility runs out, leaving behind a burdensome 'empty packet'. Acharya Prashant concludes that while nature is closer to the divine than human society, one must eventually transcend even nature to reach ultimate liberation. True beauty is found when one is drawn to something that does not serve a petty purpose but instead transforms the seeker entirely.