Mitigating the Difference between Real Beauty and Facial Beauty
Framework of Issues
Real beauty is one that is an inner part of a personality—that is the beauty and innocence of one’s heart. The facial beauty is our appearance, which we want others to view and admire us.
Facial beauty is equally important since it enhances opportunities to seek interactions and to be progressive. What is bad that in arranging for facial beauty, one indulges in things harmful for protecting real beauty. In return, the gulf between the two increases to the extent that the real beauty gets tarnished making that person even forget that there exists something on the name of real beauty. This is where the dissociation between heart-specific and brain specific behaviors occurs, resulting in the development of credulous thinking in you, making you the slave of the world and what is in it. This is when a person falls prey to the worldly attractions and charms and becomes negligent of the existence of the next world in which he or she is to be held accountable for his/ her actions and intentions before God.
This is the fundamental need of an enlightened self in us that our outer appearance and inner reality should be without any clash between each other.
Exercise
Never allow yourself to bear bad or ill intentions towards others—close relatives, colleagues, friends etc.
It doesn’t mean that you can get rid of all bad intentions at once; rather you need to reach at a decision in your mind that you would never allow yourself to think wrong or to have suspicions about others.
Remember that if any one intends something bad for you, he or she will surely be the first of all victim of what he or she intended for you.
Fair thinking or fair intentions about others isn’t easy; one needs to go through a strict training of mind that involves self-restraint or self-control, for the sake of which a favorable type of environment is must.
So in making your mind to the decisions of not engaging with others unless you have positive intentions. And, for the sake of that even if you need to change your surrounding environment for the purpose of changing the company of people around you, you should not hesitate in this sacrifice.
