On March 10, 2025, SAIFER, the Integral Education initiative of Sri Aurobindo Society, facilitated a 90-minute interactive session for 7 students and one accompanying faculty member of Auro University, Surat.
The session commenced with Shivakumar and Priti of SAFIER, asking reflective questions to the students on the ideal of Beauty — What does a beautiful place, object, moment, emotion, thought, sensation do to you? This discussion was taken up as an exploration and with the help of sharing from the participants of their personal experiences, the first part of the interaction concluded with the following insights from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother:
“... without perfect love there cannot be perfect beauty, and without perfect beauty there cannot be perfect delight.”
- Sri Aurobindo
“Let beauty be your constant ideal.
The beauty of the soul
The beauty of sentiments
The beauty of thoughts
The beauty of the action
The beauty in the work
so that nothing comes out of your hands which is not an expression of pure and harmonious beauty.
And the Divine Help shall always be with you.”
-The Mother
As a finishing note the students were asked to keep ‘Beauty as their constant ideal’ and see how they can make their outer and inner atmosphere beautiful and note — What were the few practices that they would start in order to experience the ‘Delight of Beauty’. The interaction concluded with an ending thought put forth to the students — on Finding the Source of Delight within, for which the ‘The Science of Living’ by The Mother is the path.
The students were happy to express their views and experiences and found the discussion and interaction very engaging. They enthusiastically shared the practices that they will take up in order to make Auro University, their homes and their Inner-Selves a place of Beauty and Delight.
