Beauty is the smile of truth

when he contemplates his own face in a perfect mirror.

Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony.

which is in the universal being;

truth the perfect understanding of the universal mind.

— Rabindranath Tagore

The entire concept of real beauty can be difficult to define, despite being a well-known term. Everyone has their own opinions on what constitutes true beauty. One way to think about it is to consider what makes you smile in such a radiant way that it draws people to want to be in your presence. Ideal beauty is one that is admired or possesses characteristics widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture for perfection.

Just like the iconic Audrey Hepburn quote:

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, look for the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.

For balance, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.

There would hardly be a person who would not like to look beautiful. Over a period of time, beauty slowly fades due to age and what remains are signs of aging. To combat these signs, people use numerous methods such as anti-aging creams, Botox, among others. They seek to keep their beauty (which they believe to be physical) intact for as long as possible. This is how they delude themselves into believing that they are something beautiful. They win to be dazzling and remain the center of attraction.

A fair complexion and sharp features are not the only criteria for being beautiful. These are external factors. External beauty is like a water bubble, it exists only for a while. Aside from the face hidden behind those layers of makeup, there is a heart; sublime, full of love and connected to your mind, that is real satisfaction. You need to make yourself attractive to experience true beauty.

Helen Keller said: “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they must be felt with the heart.” Every character that exists on earth is born beautiful. Moral qualities, ethical standards, principles are added advantages to real beauty. Intellect and intelligence with beauty is a rare quality. And when someone has internal and external beauty it is ‘the icing on the cake’. Beauty and youth are often considered synonymous. The balance of body and soul is much more important than using an anti-wrinkle cream.

Let me run ideas through my mind and see where it takes me. Let’s consider attractive people, places, objects, amazing scenery in a gallery, perceptive photography in different angles or delve into a more materialistic life like the impressive architecture of my bungalow, with a balcony overlooking a serene pool. I have delicious food sitting on a table next to me, sending out the most heavenly aroma that is tantalizing to the mind and tickling my taste buds.

I could go on with more descriptions, but it would be painfully mundane to read, so I’ll just leave it as “blah blah blah”.

Having seen life in the best circumstances with the best resources (mom/dad/brother/friends/teacher/money…and what not) with the best living conditions and then having distanced myself from these things temporarily, to recover it in a new format and terms of life, I realize that Beauty is a very relative terminology, quite misunderstood and dare I say, quite misapplied as well.

So what is true beauty to me?

I think and believe that true beauty is realizing that I am able to perform, think, analyze, decimate, disintegrate, learn, unlearn, believe and still redefine my belief system or call it fine tune.

Therefore, the real beauty is that I am a human being, that it is a gift of nature, and I am able to realize that there is GOD in many forms and functions, many of its manifestations are even called evil and I look at them in silence to understand what nature is telling me.

And the real beauty based on the above idea for me is the knowledge; the assimilation of different pieces of information, when expressed logically is invaluable knowledge.

Only knowledge is true beauty.

Having said this, I want to say that if I put a book of esoteric knowledge of old and some fine wisdom pictures on the head of a donkey, he does not become wise. What will make you erudite is the right application of that knowledge in the right place, in the right measure, at the right time, and how do you get one apart from the Grace of nature? One gets it through the guru, the proverbial teacher.

Therefore, the Guru or the teacher is the real beauty.

The teacher, who gave me understanding and perception of what is what and how to see it. If it wasn’t for the right teacher, I could still think that 2 + 2 = 5 and go on living like a donkey without realizing the 2 = 2 of life.

And who gave me the teacher? That’s a blind answer: my DAD. He put me through both formal and informal education and while giving me this, he gave me a bonus bunch of friends from school to college, which I would filter over a period of time through experience and maturity.

Therefore, the father is the real beauty.

And who gave me my father? My mom pointed it out, because she’s the only human who really knows the truth of whose seed she made me from. We all know the parenting journey of the mother. Let me not make it emotionally touchy and elaborate, we all know what our mother’s are. Period.

Therefore, my mother is the true beauty.

Now tell me how do I get a good mother, I have no choice, actually no one asked my permission to give me this birth, absolutely no choice.

So the real beauty is the fact that I realize that there is someone up there taking care of my soul.

Mata, pita, guru, good miter (Amigo) and god are the real beauty – put them all together and mix it up – it’s god’s grace.

I realize that I am a unique creation of this nature, no one like me and second to none, no one has ever been created like me in the eons that have passed in this universe and there will never be one like me in the future of this universe. It is me, I am a blessing from my parents, I am the well wishes of my well-wishers, I am the hope of all those new tomorrows that will unfold through me, I am the daughter of gratitude, the mother of all virtues: I am Rewa and the real beauty is that I can do it.

For me, Miss Universe Sushmita Sen, Miss World Aishwarya Bachchan are equally beautiful for Maharani Gayatri Devi, Mother Teresa, Medha Patkar, Kiran Bedi, Lata Mangeshkar or a rural woman who works in the field all day but efficiently takes care of her little world. The beauty is so divine that it inspired Kalidas to write Meghdoot and Tulsidas to create Ramayan.

The summary is that God’s always beautiful creation is WOMAN who nurtures and creates a new life.

Satyam Shivam Sundaram – Truth is God and God is beautiful