University of Montana; Missoula, Montana, USA

Montana Rooms, The Student Center
23 April 1974

Beauty is my body’s purity. Beauty is my vital’s humility. Beauty is my mind’s
serenity. Beauty is my heart’s magnanimity. Beauty is my life’s sincerity
As a seeker, when I develop these divine qualities, I become all beauty. A child
is beautiful, a flower is beautiful, a flame is beautiful. When I have a childlike
heart, God talks to me. When my life becomes a flower of gratitude, I get the
opportunity to sing with God His universal Song. When my life grows into a
climbing flame, I play with God and take conscious part in His Cosmic Game.
Beauty is in giving. Beauty is in receiving. Beauty is in giving and giving alone.
Beauty is in receiving and receiving alone. When I give, I see that before I have
given anything, Heaven is already smiling through my offering, my self-giving.
When I receive, I see that earth is smiling in and through me. When I give and
give, I see that God the divine Pilot is offering Himself to aspiring humanity in
and through me. When I receive and receive, I see that God the infinite Compassion
is entering into me and expanding my earth-bound consciousness, finally
transforming it into the Heaven-free Reality.
When I invoke the soul and become one with the soul, I have the capacity to
reveal the Source at God’s choice Hour. At that time, I have a most significant
message to offer to my brothers and sisters of the world:
Vedaham etam purusam mahantam
Adityavarnam tamasah parastat -
I have known this Great Being,
Effulgent as the sun
Beyond the boundaries of tenebrous gloom.
When I have attained this capacity, my own soul shines with the effulgent
beauty of that one great Being.
When I invoke the heart, become one with the heart and try to offer the
wealth of the heart to the world at large, I see a new beauty growing within me
and flowing around me. At that time my message is:
Twameva mata pita twameva…
Thou art the Mother.
Thou art the Father.
Thou art the Friend.
Thou art the Comrade.
Thou art Knowledge.
Thou art Wealth.
Thou art my All.
Thou art my Lord Supreme.
This message that I offer to the world is founded upon my heart’s oneness
with my Inner Pilot. This is the sweetest and, at the same time, the most convincing
feeling of inseparable oneness with the Inner Pilot. When I establish my
inseparable oneness with my Inner Pilot, I feel Him as my Mother and Father of
Eternity: as my Friend and Comrade from time immemorial; and as my Lord
Supreme, my All. This is the beauty of the heart that a seeker embodies, reveals
and manifests here on earth.
When I invoke the mind and become one with the mind, I offer the wealth of
the mind on the strength of my soulful prayer.
Aum bhur bhuvah svah
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasya dhimahi
Dhiyo yo nah pracodayat
We meditate on the Transcendental Glory of the Deity
Supreme, who is inside the heart of the earth, inside the life
of the sky and inside the soul of the Heaven. May He
stimulate and illumine our minds.
This is the Gayatri Mantra, the prayer for the mind, for the illumination of the
mind. This is India’s peerless mantra or incantation. All the other mantras of
India are derived from this one. This is the loftiest prayer that the Indian seers
of the hoary past realised and offered to aspiring humanity.
We have already discovered beauty in the soul, beauty in the heart and beauty
in the mind. Now we have to discover beauty in the vital. When beauty in the
vital dawns, we become energetic, dynamic, progressive and fulfilling. At that
time, we pray to the Supreme to inundate our vital with power infinite, power
divine, the power that builds, not the power that breaks; the power that energises
us, the power the vital needs for the full manifestation of divinity on earth. The
message of divine power which I offer to the world is:
Tejo ’si tejo mayi dhehi…
Thy fiery spirit I invoke.
Thy manly vigour I invoke.
Thy power and energy I invoke.
Thy battle fury I invoke.
Thy conquering mind I invoke.
This power in the vital is the beauty of the vital for the manifestation of God
here on earth.
I also try to invoke the body-consciousness and become one with the aspiring
body in order to discover beauty in the body. For this, I pray to the Supreme to
grant me sound health and an aspiring body. This is the prayer of my body:
Taccaksur devahitam sukram…
May we, for a hundred autumns,
See that lustrous Eye, God-ordained,
Arise before us…
In this case, a hundred years means an infinite or indefinite expanse of time.
If we have a long life of aspiration on earth, then we can realise God, reveal God
and manifest God. We need a long life of aspiration, dedication, devotion and
surrender. This is the beauty in the body and of the body, for the soul and for
God, the Supreme.
If we want to discover more beauty here in the earth-consciousness, we have
to realise what is essential and what is not essential. Another most significant
message of the Upanishadic Seers is:
Neti neti
Not this, not that.
Ignorance, no! Darkness, no! Bondage, no! Limitation, imperfection, no! We
do not need them. We need faith, courage, humility, purity, sincerity and all the
divine qualities. We renounce the unillumined parts in us and invoke the parts
that are illumined, the consciousness that is illumined. Not this; not the ignorance
which we now claim as our very own and which claims us as its very own, but
Light, the Light that claims us as its very own and the Light that we are going to
claim as our very own.
There is also a supreme Beauty. The supreme Beauty is in our conscious, inseparable
oneness with the Supreme. This supreme Beauty we discover on the
strength of our conscious, constant and unconditional self-giving. When we dare
to say, “Not my will, but Thy Will be done,” then we can also say, “I and my
Father are one.” When we sincerely say, “Let Thy Will be done,” at that time the
supreme Beauty reveals itself in and through us. And when we say, “I and my
Father are one,” at that time the supreme Beauty finds its complete manifestation
on earth here and now.
You are beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful,
Beauty unparalleled in the garden of Paradise.
Day and night may Thy Image abide in the very depth of my heart.
Without You my eyes have no vision;
Everything is an illusion, everything is barren.
All around me, within and without,
The melody of tenebrous pangs I hear.
My world is filled with excruciating pangs.
O Lord, O my beautiful Lord,
O my Lord of Beauty, in this lifetime even for a fleeting second
May I be blessed with the boon to see Thy Face.