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and activities of the world and shape an image of our inner
and our outer life in the highest image we can perceive and
embody of the All-Beautiful, then the aesthetic being in us who
was born for this end, has fulfilled himself and risen to his divine
consummation. To find highest beauty is to find God; to reveal,
to embody, to create, as we say, highest beauty is to bring out
of our souls the living image and power of God.
CWSA 25: 144-45

There is nothing harmful in the thing [aspiration for beauty] it-
self — on the contrary to awake to the universal beauty and re-
finement of the Mahalakshmi force is good. It is not an expres-
sion of greed or lust — only into these things a perversion can
always come if one allows it, as into the Mahakali experience
there may come rajasic anger and violence, so here there may
come vital passion for possession and enjoyment. One must
look at the beauty as the artist does without desire of posses-
sion or vital enjoyment of the lower kind.
CWSA 27: 705

... beauty and delight, whatever form it takes, — for we may
speak here of the two as one, — has an unaging youth, an eter-
nal moment, an immortal presence.
CWSA 26: 255 Sri Aurobindo

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