Beauty by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Adi Shankara, after he spoke a lot about dispassion, detachment, and renunciation, found that people should not stop appreciating beauty. So he sang a hundred verses on beauty. He foresaw that if he just talked about renunciation, people could become sadists. They start liking and encouraging the sadness. So he immediately sang on beauty. Beauty has three levels: indication, expression and exposure. Spirituality indicates, art expresses, and science exposes. The Divine is beauty, and beauty is divine. Deva means one…