“I never saw an ugly thing in
my life; for let the form of an object be what it may – light, shade, and
perspective will always make it beautiful.” – John Constable
“If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling
in a house of swans, it’s having the swans pretend there’s no difference.” –
Teena Booth
Assignment: Is it true that
there are no ugly things?
The ‘visor may be thatched but in
there live Jove says Don Pedro a Shakespeare’s character in his play Much Ado
About Nothing’! “Nothing is unclean of itself, but to him who esteemeth it to
be unclean, to him it is unclean (Bible).“ The quintessence of human form lies
deep within the heart of men – unadulterated as it were. Howsoever appalling or
doggish the looks of our fellow mates may be, in there dwells the Juno’s swans,
bubbling with unabated love and elated effervescence.
Appraising the phenomena of this vast universe and
commending the theories and postulates of Quantum physics it is simply juvenile
and imbecile to stick to the physical aspect of universe, for all is energy
says the Physicists. And energy is formless! The apparent form (and thus the
matter) is but an illusion of the incompetent senses!
The physical beauty is only one facet of this variegated
reality. The seers of untold centuries – the antediluvian – have accentuated
upon the everlasting spirit, the soul. The body is but a transient abode in its
perpetual journey. The formless, the ever-free, the omnipresent, the
omniscient, and the inexplicable is the self-definition of our lord – the ‘I
AM’ as it is mentioned in the Bible. This eternal being cannot be construed by
the senses. The evanescent body along with its beauty is like a bubble of a
soap that may burst at any moment! The body is just a functional apparatus
through which the almighty functions in diverse ways. Thus to categorize men or
even for that matter inanimate things into beautiful and ugly is a folly. That
which of its own self has no existence, that which is non-luminescent, how can
it be ugly or beautiful? It simply is that which it is! And the spirit within,
the part of the lord, how can it be a sinner?
The apartheid regime and the discrimination on the basis
of skin color has stained our mother earth ever since. The caste and creed have
left us in a deplorable state. The ‘tanned’ president of US, Barak Obama leave
no room for the slightest scruple pertaining to the mettle of men! His
efficiency and laudatory services to the world are unequalled. The world has
witnessed millions of men such as Ashtavakra who in their demeanor were
mutilated but indeed turned out to be enlightened masters. The verses of
Ashtavakra - conserved in what is called the Mahageeta - resonate and goad the
hearts of many somnambulist Bodhisattavas till date.
Thus beauty to me is a figment of man’s imagination. And
with the uprooting of the good, the evil must subside as it is the obverse of
the same coin. The real essential part of the universe remains a conundrum even
to the most erudite of the elites - beyond the classification by empirical
scientific methods. Hence nothing of itself is ugly!
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