Real beauty
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 3
SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
Guest (7): In the Bhāgavata (indistinct). I get up at four in the morning (indistinct).
Prabhupāda: There is a proverb that "If you go to a prostitute, go in the morning. (laughter) Not at night." In the morning you will see her real beauty. Give some prasādam to the... All right. [break] Prasādam should be taken in any condition. This dhoop is very nice, though.Philosophy Discussions
Hayagrīva: One last statement from Aristotle. He states, in his Politics, he says, "The beauty of the body is seen, whereas the beauty of the soul is not seen." Is this true?
Prabhupāda: Beauty of the soul is real beauty, and beauty of the body is superficial. Not every body is beautiful. There are so many bodies very ugly, and there are so many bodies very beautiful. So the material sense, this ugliness and beautifulness, they are all artificial. But the beauty of the soul is real; that is not artificial. So unless we see the beauty of the Supersoul, Kṛṣṇa, we have no idea what is actually beauty. Therefore devotees, they want to see the beauty of Kṛṣṇa, not any artificial beauty of this material world.
Hayagrīva: There's no correspondence there. That is to say, a beautiful body does not necessarily house a beautiful soul. There's no correspondence.
Prabhupāda: No, there is correspondence, because we say this material world is perverted reflection. So originally the soul is beauty, but here the beauty is covered. But we can simply have a glimpse of the real beauty from the material covering, but we have to wait to see the beauty of the soul. That is real point.Conversations and Morning Walks
1969 Conversations and Morning Walks
Page Title: | Real beauty |
Compiler: | Laksmipriya, Serene |
Created: | 03 of Sep, 2008 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=3, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=3, Con=1, Let=0 |
No. of Quotes: | 7 |