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Define Inner Beauty
How do you define inner beauty?
Inner beauty? If you have the right kind of eyes, everything is absolutely beautiful.
There’s no relative to …
Relative thing is a social factor. Again, it’s a training. It depends on what kind of data has gone into your mind. If you’re in a certain state of joy, and you look at anything, everything is beautiful. When you’re unhappy, only certain things are beautiful, certain things are ugly. When you are very happy, you look at anything, everything looks absolutely beautiful. See, there are many ways to look at this. One simple way is right now you might be identified with many things, starting from your physical body, to you mind, to your education, to your religion, to your society, to various things that you hold in your life. When you simply sit here, if you simply sit with me right now, you’re just a piece of life, isn’t it? A certain amount of life energy, that’s all you are, isn’t it so? Identified with many, many things, but but fundamentally, you’re just a certain amount of life energy.
This life energy, which you call as “myself” at this moment, this life energy sometimes has been very joyful, has it been? Has it been? You say, “Yes.” That was its tragedy. Sometimes, it’s been utterly miserable. Sometimes, very peaceful. Sometimes, turmoil. Sometimes, agony. Sometimes, ecstasy. This has happened to this, isn’t it? This life energy which you call as “myself” is capable of all these things. If this life energy is capable of all these things, if you were given a choice what kind of expression your life energy should find right now in this moment, what would you choose, agony or ecstasy? Definitely ecstasy.
If there was a conscious choice about how to keep your life energies right now, definitely you would have kept yourself absolutely joyful and ecstatic. Only because a large part of you is happening unconsciously, other things which you do not want are happening within you. What you do not want is happening in the world. You cannot stop it 100%. Only to some extent we manage these things. Within you, you are the only ingredient. In the world, there are a million things. See, if we want to create a situation the way we want it, we need the cooperation of hundred people around us. All of them will never cooperate 100%. They will all play the game that way, isn’t it? In any given situation, even if you are just two people in the family, you cannot have the situation 100% the way you want it. Yes or no?
This is the reality with outside. With the inside, you are the only reality. Nobody in the world happens your way, at least this one person must happen your way, isn’t it? Right now, even this person is not happening your way. That’s why you are asking what is the way to joy? Your mind is not happening the way you want it. Your body is not happening the way you want it. Your emotion is not happening the way you want it. Nor your life energies are happening the way you want it. We need to do something about it, isn’t it? If all these four are happening the way you want them, you will definitely be joyful every moment of your life, isn’t it, irrespective of what’s happening around you.
We need to explore the technology, because it’s a subjective technology, because the ingredient is you. It’s about you. Unless we create a certain atmosphere of commitment and focus to look beyond certain things that you are identified with right now, it will not be possible to explore this. The reason why the spiritual sciences, especially in this country, which was so rich in the mystical traditions, has become so ridiculous, these people try to do it anywhere and everywhere, without necessary committed atmospheres.