Shakti: The word ‘beauty’ seems to have lost its clarity and meaning. It has even been used to say, “It was a beautiful war” or “It’s a beauty of a bomb”!
Satish: The idea that anything can be beautiful is not correct. We have to remember the trinity of truth, goodness and beauty together. Beauty comes as a consequence of truthfulness and goodness. Even truthfulness by itself is not enough. Beauty is an emergent phenomenon of truth, which is made good. If something is not truthful, and not good, then it cannot be beautiful. Somebody saying “a beautiful war” is mistaken. Is war good? No. So it ...
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