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Beauty and Ananda</font></B></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>TRUTH
is Beauty's substance-it is Beauty self-governed.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Beauty
is Delight perfectly articulate.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="text-indent: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Love
is Beauty enjoying itself.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="text-indent: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Knowledge
is the light that Beauty emanates.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="text-indent: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Power
is the fascination that Beauty exerts.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>All
Art is the re-creation of Truth in Beauty.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Rhythm
is the gait of Truth dynamic with Delight.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">The
Truth of a thing is its native substance, the being in its absolute
self-law. </FONT><I>Satyam </I>is that which is of <I>Sat.</I></FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Beauty
is delight <SPAN LANG="en-GB">organised.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Poetry
is the soul's delight seeking perfect expression in speech. </FONT>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Speech
is self-expression. It is the organ of self-consciousness. The nature
of the speech shows the nature of the self-consciousness. The degree
of perfection in utterance measures also the extent to which one is
conscious of oneself.</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Beauty
is the soul's delight perfectly articulate and <SPAN LANG="en-GB">organised.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Where
the soul does not speak out, where the rhythm of the spirit does not
manifest, there comes in ugliness.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Things are
ugly when they are not true to themselves, not sincere, not
self-expressive.</FONT><BR>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>In
a sense, natural and beautiful are the same, the perverse
commensurate with the ugly.</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Beauty
is not merely balance, symmetry, measure, a regular disposition of
features. A form, an embodiment, need not be pretty to be beautiful.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Mere
formal beauty is a power, but a surface power; there is a deeper
unity of rhythm in the embodiment that is beautiful by its
transparent soul-expression.</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Art is
the incarnation of Truth in Beauty,</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>The
Divine the truest Truth and the Beauty most beautiful, The
incarnation of the Divine the supreme Art.</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>An
art with the Divine left out is like a trunk without the head:</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>It
is built with the lower members and not with the higher members of
Beauty;</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Skill
it may possess but not greatness;</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>It
may please the senses, but cannot enrapture the soul.</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>The
very nature of Art is rhythm and harmony.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>The
Divine is integral harmony and perfect rhythm.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>The
element of divine harmony and rhythm is the measure of the beautiful
in Art.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>Even
so it is with the art of life.</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>All
things are beautiful, for the All-beautiful is in every thing.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>The
domain of Art encompasses the entire creation.</FONT><BR>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>The
Divine is present everywhere, but in essence.</FONT></P>
<P STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>In the
manifestation there is a varying and developing degree of the
Presence.</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>The
Brahman is there equally in the saint and the sinner, in the
knowledge and in the ignorance, - it is the static Brahman.</FONT></P>
<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>But
the saint and the knowledge manifest and embody the dynamic Brahman.</FONT></P>
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<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE="text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0"><FONT SIZE=3>The
stress of Life is to reveal and incarnate more and more of the
dynamic Divine, the creative Ananda of consciousness in its
self-nature.</FONT></P>
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progress of art too consists in recording this march of .the soul in
its ever-growing consciousness and ever-deepening Ananda towards a
higher incarnation of the Divine.</FONT><BR>
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