Where has the Beauty gone...

Beauty has this strange quality about it.

It cannot be explained with words.

Beauty has got this aura of mystic power around it.

And there’s only one way you can experience it.

You have to let go and surrender, believing that it will carry you to someplace else, someplace new, someplace you’ve never been before, and someplace you might never go again.

There’s only one way you can experience beauty. You have to lose yourself...

Have you realized something?

When you go to the sea beach in the rain, and there’s a mix of cold water droplets from the air and foam from the sea brushing across your face, you close your eyes…

When you see a small baby, smelling sweetly of powder and cream, you lean in close to kiss its soft cheeks tenderly, and impulsively, you close your eyes…

When something hurts so badly in your chest that you feel your heart has been ripped open and is slowly oozing out thick blood, you feel a warm tear come to surface, and then, you close your eyes…

When you travel thousands of miles to a place of worship, elbow hundreds of people in the unruly crowd to get your place near the front, and when you have just ten seconds face to face with your Lord, you do NOT look at Him face to face. You close your eyes…

It’s not a foolish thing we do.

It’s not even in our control.

It’s perfectly natural.

Beauty has this strange quality about it.

It cannot be explained with words.

Beauty has got this aura of mystic power around it.

And there’s only one way you can experience it.

The beauty, the love and the happiness we pursue is all inside us.

We chase it madly in some place outside the world, believing it to be at the top of the highest mountain or at the bottom of the deepest sea.

We have gotten so used to believing that life is hard, tough and cruel that we think all the good things are hidden away somewhere, far beyond our reach.

Well, it’s partly true. All the good things are, indeed, hidden away somewhere.

And that is at the core of our own Beings. Only if we stop looking outside and hold on to ourselves for a moment can we catch a rare glimpse of it.

So You tell me.

Is it really out of reach? 

-Avinash Agarwal