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<font size="4">The Beautiful
in the Upanishads</font></b></p>
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<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; WHEN the Rigveda says</i></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:113.4pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>idam śrestham JyotisÄm Jyotih
ÄgÄt</i></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; citrah praketo ajanita vibhvÄ</i></p>

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<p class=western style='margin-left:57.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Lo! the supreme Light of lights is
come, a varied</p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:57.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>awakening is born, wide manifest</p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:113.95pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>ru<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ś</span>advast<span style='font-family:
"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span> ru<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ś</span>at<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ī</span> <span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ś</span>wety<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>g<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>t</i></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:113.95pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>raigu
krisn<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span> sadan<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>nyasy<span style='font-family:
"Luxi Serif"'>Äh</span></i></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0" align="left">The white Mother comes reddening with the ruddy child; the
dark Mother opens wide her chambers, the feeling and the expression of the beautiful raise no
questioning; they are authentic as well as evident. All will recognise at once
t at we have here beautiful things said in a beautiful way. No less authentic
however is the sense of the beautiful that underlies these Upanishadic lines:</p>

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<p class=western style='margin-left:112.55pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>na tatra sūryo bhÄti na
candratÄrakam</i></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:112.55pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>nemÄ vidyuto bhÄnti kuto'yam
agnih</i></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:112.55pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>tameva bhÄntam anubhÄti sarvam</i></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:112.55pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>tasya bhÄsÄ sarvam idam
vibhÄti</i></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">There the sun shines not, nor the moon, nor the stars; these
lightnings too there shine not; how then this fire! That shines and therefore
all shine in its wake; by the sheen of That, all this shines.</p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='text-indent:17.3pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Only, to some perhaps the beauty
may not appear as<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>evident and apparent. </p>

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 36</span></p>

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<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">The Spirit of beauty that resides in the Upanishadic consciousness is more retiring and reticent. It dwells in its own
privacy, in its own home, as it were, and therefore chooses to be bare and
austere, simple and sheer. Beauty means usually the beauty of form, even if it
be not always the decorative, ornamental and sumptuous form. The early Vedas
aimed at the perfect form <i>(sur<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ū</span>pakrtnum),
</i>the faultless expression, the integral and complete embodiment; the gods
they envisaged and invoked were gleaming powers carved out of harmony and
beauty and figured close to our modes of apprehension <i>(s<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ū</span>p<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>yan<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Äh</span>). </i>But the Upanishads came to lay
stress upon what is beyond the form, what the eye cannot see nor the vision
reflect:</p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:111.7pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; na sandr<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ś</span>i ti tisthati r<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ū</span>pamasya</i></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:133.55pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>na caksus<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span> pa<span style='font-family:
"Luxi Serif"'>ś</span>yati ka<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ś</span>canainam</i></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:52.45pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Its figure does not lie in the
field of vision, none can see it with the eye</p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='text-indent:9.9pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The form of a thing can be
beautiful; but the formless too has its beauty. Indeed, the beauty of the
formless, that is to say, the very sum and substance, the ultimate essence, the
soul of beauty – that is what suffuses, with in-gathered colour and enthusiasm,
the realisation and poetic creation of the Upanishadic seer. All the forms that
are scattered abroad in their myriad manifest beauty hold within themselves a
secret Beauty and are reflected or projected out of it. This veiled Name of
Beauty can be compared to nothing on the phenomenal hemisphere of Nature; it
has no adequate image or representation below:</p>
<p class=western style='text-indent:9.9pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:111.7pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; na tasya pratim<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span> asti -</i></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:112.55pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">it cannot be defined or figured in the terms of the phenomenal
consciousness. In speaking of it, however, the Upanishads invariably and
repeatedly refer to two attributes that characterise its fundamental nature.
These two aspects have made such an impression upon the consciousness of the
Upanishadic seer that his enthusiasm almost wholly plays about them and is<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>centred 
on them. </p>

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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 37</span></p>

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<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">When he contemplates or communes with the
Supreme Object, these seem to him to be the mark of its authenticity, the seal
of its high status and the reason of all the charm and magic it possesses. The
first aspect or attribute is that of light – the brilliance, the solar
effulgence<i> – ravituly-ar<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ū</span>pah
– the </i>bright, clear, shadow less Light of lights – virajam <span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ś</span><i>ubhram jyotis<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>m jyotih. </i>The second aspect is
that of delight, the bliss, the immortality inherent in that wide effulgence – <span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span><i>nandar<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ū</span>pam amrtam yad vibh<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>ti.</i></p>

<p class=western style='text-indent:11.6pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And what else is the true
character, the soul of beauty than light and delight? &quot;A thing of beauty
is a joy for ever.&quot; And a thing of joy is a thing of light. Joy is the
radiance rippling over a thing of beauty. Beauty is always radiant: the charm,
the loveliness of an object is but the glow of light that it emanates. And it
would not be a very incorrect mensuration to measure the degree of beauty by
the degree of light radiated. The diamond is not only a thing of value, but a
thing of beauty also, because of the concentrated and undimmed light that it
enshrines within itself. A dark, dull and dismal thing, devoid of interest and
attraction becomes aesthetically precious and significant as soon as the artist
presents it in terms of the values of light. The entire art of painting is
nothing but the expression of beauty, in and through the modalities of light.</p>

<p class=western style='text-indent:11.6pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>And where there is light, there is
cheer and joy. <i>Rasamaya </i>and <i>jyotirmaya </i>are thus the two conjoint
characteristics fundamental to the nature of the ultimate reality. Sometimes
these two are named as the 'solar and the lunar aspect. The solar aspect refers
obviously to the Light, that is to say, to the Truth; the lunar aspect refers
to the <i>rasa </i>(Soma), to Immortality, to Beauty proper –</p>

<p class=western style='text-indent:11.6pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:113.4pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>yatte susamam hrdayam adhi
candramasi <span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ś</span>ritam</i></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:113.4pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>ten<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>mrtatvasye<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ś</span>ena</i></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:57.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>O Lord of Immortality! Thy' heart
of beauty that is sheltered in the moon –</p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">or, as the Prasna Upanishad has it,</p>
<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; rayireva candram<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>h
. </i>. . <i>m<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ū</span>firtireva
rayih</i></p>

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<span
style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 38</span></p>

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<p class=western style='margin-left:54.7pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The Moon means Delight... and
Delight means the created form.</p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='text-indent:9.9pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The perception of beauty in the
Upanishadic consciousness is something elemental-of concentrated essence. It<b>
</b>silhouettes the main contour, outlines the primordial gestures. Pregnant
and pulsating with the burden of beauty, the <i>mantra </i>here reduces its
external expression to a minimum. The body is bare and unadorned, and even in
its nakedness, it has not the emphatic and vehement musculature of an athlete;
rather it tends to be slim and slender and yet vibrant with the inner nervous
vigour and glow. What can be more bare and brief and full to the brim of a
self-gathered luminous energy than, for example:</p>

<p class=western style='text-indent:9.9pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:113.4pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>yat pr<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>nena na praniti yena pr<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>nah</i></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; pr<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>n<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ī</span>yate
tadeva brahma – </i></p>
<p class=western style='margin-left:142.6pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:55.55pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>That which lives not by Life, but
which makes Life live-That is Brahman.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">or,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:111.7pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>n<span style='font-family:
"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>lpe sukhamasti bh<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ū</span>maiva
sukham. </i>. <i>.yo vai </i></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:111.7pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>bh<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ū</span>m<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>
tadamrtam atka yadalpam tanmartyam –</i></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:111.7pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:57.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>In the Little there lies no
happiness, the Vast alone is the Happiness. The Vast is the Immortality, the
Little is the Mortality.</p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='text-indent:9.9pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The rich and sensuous beauty
luxuriating in high colour and ample decoration that one meets often in the
creation of the earlier Vedic seers returned again, in a more chiselled and
polished and stylised manner, in the classical poets. The Upanishads in this
.respect have a certain kinship with the early poets of the intervening age –
Vyasa and Valmiki. <i>Upam<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>
K<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>lid<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>sasya </i>--Kalidasa revels in figures
and images; they are profusely heaped on one another and usually possess a
complex and composite texture. Valmiki's images are simple and elemental, brief
and instinct with a vast resonance, spare and full of power. The same brevity
and simplicity, vibrant<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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<span style='font-size:10.0pt;'>Page – 39</span></p>

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<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">with an extraordinary power of evocation, are also
characteristic of the Upanishadic <i>mantra. </i>With Valmiki's</p>
<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">&nbsp;</p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:111.7pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>k<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Äś</span>amiva dusp<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>ram</i></p>
<p class=western style='margin-left:111.7pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>&nbsp;</p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:57.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>like the sky hard to cross over,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">or,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:112.55pt;font-weight:medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>gat<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>rcisamiv<span style='font-family:
"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>nalam –</i></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:57.0pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>like a fire whose light of flame is
gone,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">or,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:113.4pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>tejas<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>dityasamk<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Äś</span>ah ksamay<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span> Prthiv<span style='font-family:
"Luxi Serif"'>ī</span>samah –</i></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:54.7pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>fiery as the burning sun, full of
forbearance like the earth,</p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">can be compared, in respect of vivid and graphic terseness and
pointedness and suggestive reverberation, the Upanishadic</p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:111.7pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span style='font-family:"Arial Narrow"'>vrksa
a </span>iva stabdho divi tisthatyekah –</i></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:55.55pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>The One stands alone in the heaven
motionless, like a tree against the sky,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">or,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:113.4pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i><span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>ś</span>aravat
tanmayo bhavet –</i></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:55.55pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Be wholly fixed on That, like an
arrow on its target,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">or again,</p>

<p class=western style='margin-left:112.55pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><i>yathem<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span> nadyah syandam<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>n<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>
samudr<span style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>yan<span
style='font-family:"Luxi Serif"'>Ä</span>h –</i></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">like these rivers that flowing journey towards the sea.</p>

<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=western style='text-indent:11.05pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Art at its highest tends to become
also the simplest and the most unconventional; and it is then the highest art,
precisely because it does not aim at being artistic. The aesthetic motive is
totally absent in the Upanishads; the sense of beauty is there, but it is
attendant upon and involved in a deeper strand of consciousness. That
consciousness seeks consciousness itself, the fullness of consciousness, the
awareness and possession
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<p class=western style="line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">of the Truth and Reality,-the one thing which, if known, gives
the knowledge of all else. And this consciousness of the Truth is also Delight,
the perfect Bliss, the Immortality where the whole universe resolves itself
into its original state of <i>rasa, </i>that is to say, of essential and
inalienable harmony and beauty.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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