By Damodar Prasad dasThis meditation is concluded by the realisation that the contemplation of beauty by the soul, or by a conditioned soul, teaches the soul to discover a corresponding beauty within itself (Cooper, 2015). The real artist is one who views and pursues beauty as a means of self-contemplation and self-discovery, and so true art has a vital use for conditioned living beings. True art inspires the viewer with a sense of his own beauty as a spiritual spark which is truth and beauty at the same time, and which participates in a greater all-encompassing truth and beauty. “When his mind, thus purified, finds satisfaction in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness” (Bg 2.56). By such contemplation, the artist creates within himself an enduring work of art which lays the foundation for an eternal peace.
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