Beauty

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God is not only true and good, 
God is also beautiful (satyam-shivam-sundaram). 
Divinity creates beauty for the joy of it...

God does not aim at beauty. 
Whatever God does is beautiful. 
Would you say that a flower 
is trying to be beautiful? 
It is beautiful by its very nature. 

Similarly God is perfection itself, 
not an effort at perfection...
whatever is perceived blissfully 
is beautiful. 

Bliss is the essence of beauty.¹

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

Waves of the Ocean

[1] Nisargadatta Maharaj, I AM  THAT: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, (The Acorn Press, 1973), p. 96 AX 7758

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