Beauty, Truth & The Upanishads | Rabindranath Tagore

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Listen to episode 393 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Beauty, Truth & The Upanishads. Edited and adapted from The Realisation of Life by Rabindranath Tagore. Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Every day our science is penetrating into the region formerly marked on the map as unexplored or unexplorable. Our sense of beauty is similarly engaged in ever pushing on from its conquests. Truth is everywhere, therefore everything is the object of our knowledge. Beauty is omnipresent, therefore everything is capable of giving us joy. In the early days of human history, we took everything as a phenomenon of life. The science of life then began by creating a sharp distinction between life and non-life. But as science is proceeding further and further, the line of demarcation between the animate and inanimate is growing more and more vague. In the beginning of our understanding, the sharp lines of contrast were helpful to us, but as our comprehension becomes clearer they gradually fade away. The Upanishads have said that all things are created and sustained by an infinite joy. To realize this principle of creation, we have to start with a division — the division into the beautiful and the non-beautiful. The apprehension of beauty has to come to us with a vigorous blow to awaken our consciousness from its primitive lethargy, and it attains its goal by the urgency of the contrast. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:55.0	Today's reading was edited and adapted from
0:59.0	The Realization of Life by Robin Renat Tocor, published in 1916.
1:10.0	Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost,
1:18.9	or they are useful and therefore in temporary impartial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost, or they are like
1:31.0	wandering vagabonds, loyering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and them passing on.
1:40.3	A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.
1:46.0	The greater part of this world is to us as if it were nothing, but we cannot allow it to remain so,
1:54.0	for it belittles our own self.
1:58.0	The entire world is given to us, and all our powers have their final meaning
2:04.4	in the faith that, by their help, we are to take possession of our inheritance.
2:10.6	But what is the function of our sense of beauty in this process? Is it there to separate truth into strong lights and shadows,
2:22.3	and bring it before us to distinguish beauty from ugliness?
2:27.3	If that were so, then we would have to admit that this sense of beauty
2:32.3	creates a dissension in our universe, and sets up a wall of hindrance
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