Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty

[Gauracandra 1]

Happy Janmashtami!!!

 

There is a famous poem by John Keats called "Ode to a Grecian Urn". One line in the poem is "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty". I never thought about it before, but last night when the altar doors opened at midnight for the celebration of Janmashtami, this line really made sense.

 

Artists like Michaelangelo have engaged in mental speculation when it comes to the Lord. They imagine that God must be an old man, with gray hair, and a long white beard. But last night this line from Keats poem fit perfectly. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. God is the supreme truth. Thus intuitively doesn't it make sense that God would be supremely beautiful? And isn't that what Krsna means? - "One who is all attractive".

 

When the altar door opened, there stood Krsna with his girlfriend (or you could say Radha with her boyfriend). A beautiful smile, gentle eyes, decorated from head to toe in all manner of colorful flowers. At midnight this morning, as the devotees held ecstatic kirtan, Radha-Govinda were just gorgeous.

 

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. Hare Krsna.

 

Gauracandra

[viji_53 0]

I always wonder when people say they are nature lovers,& say this is beautiful, that is beautiful. Have they ever thought when the nature is beautiful , how beautiful should the creator ( Hari 0r Govinda Or Krishna) be? If they ever think like that then that moment itself they will start developing devotion to Lord Hari. Devotees always find their Lord beautiful. May Lord Hari bless us all!