Garden of Power

Hibiscus: Aesthetic Power

Garden of Life

Garden of Power

Hibiscus: Aesthetic Power

Garden of Wealth

Mother’s comment

 “Beauty is a great Power”.

Here the Mother uses the word Aesthetic and Beauty.  What about aesthetics?

 

“The aesthetic is of immense importance” [Sri Aurobindo, National Value of Art]

 

“The aesthetic sense is easily purified and it can then open the path of approach to the Supreme through beauty” [Sri Aurobindo, Evening talks, Purani, p. 249]

 

“The aesthetic being belongs to the vital plane… there is a sense of beauty in the aesthetic being, and also a sense of beauty in the psychic being…the aesthetic being sees the beauty of forms and lines and sees also the beauty of something that is expressed, while the psychic being sees the charm of the soul” [Sri Aurobindo,  Evening talks, Purani, p. 434]