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of the perceived beauty (through the inner instrument) of the Divine Beloved and not willing and consequently unable to proceed further on the path towards the Ultimate Reality.
Beauty can be considered to be an attribute of the Divine and the seeker, the lover of the Divine is proceeding from the attribute to the possessor of the attribute. Though this beauty is no ordinary beauty, which is but skin deep and evanescent but everlasting and transcendent, it suffers from the defect of being sensory and sensuous in nature at least in the way we relate to it. There is the play of the lower mind and the impulsive emotional part while we contemplate on its various aspects. There is a great deal of contortions and distortions in the field of aesthetics as referred to on p.78 in BP V.2 article on ‘Methods and practices’. This is the result of the influence of the very powerful lower mind or self on the higher even inverting it so to speak so that it can keep company with the lower.
When Socrates says love is the hunger of the soul for divine beauty he is indicating perhaps the frustration of the inner being in finding the beauty of lasting character with a permanent appeal in His manifestation and hence is turning towards the Great Architect Himself with a deep hunger for imperiencing the Divine Beauty. But for the earnest seeker after the Supreme Reality, the base and substratum of all that is, pursuit of even the Divine Beauty cannot yield the desired fruit. In this context we may recall what our Master says regarding the ultimate state, ‘the most peculiar feature of our society is that when it is in full bloom, it is all covered with desolateness, which further gets transformed into wilderness. For this reason it is devoid of charm or attraction-SS-P .363’.
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