Page 17 - All India Magazine Oct-2026

Making Life and Being Beautiful

A complete and universal appreciation of beauty and the mak-
ing entirely beautiful our whole life and being must surely be a
necessary character of the perfect individual and the perfect
society.
CWSA 25: 137

Art galleries cannot be brought into every home, but, if all the
appointments of our life and furniture of our homes are things
of taste and beauty, it is inevitable that the habits, thoughts
and feelings of the people should be raised, ennobled, harmon-
ised, made more sweet and dignified.
CWSA 1: 447

… the sense of beauty is the powerful help … to the forma-
tion of morality. We do not ordinarily recognise how largely our
sense of virtue is a sense of the beautiful in conduct and our
sense of sin a sense of ugliness and deformity in conduct. …
The object of existence is not the practice of virtue for its own
sake but 1nanda, delight, and progress consists not in rejecting
beauty and delight, but in rising from the lower to the higher,
the less complete to the more complete beauty and to delight.
CWSA 1: 442,444

The preoccupation with universal beauty even in its aesthetic
forms has an intense power for refining and subtilising the na-
ture, and at its highest it is a great force for purification.
CWSA 23-24: 516 Sri Aurobindo

All India Magazine, October 2026 17