Full Video: The SECRET About Life, Art, and Beauty That Changes Everything! || Acharya Prashant (2025)
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00:00Have you seen an ant hill? No, an ant hill for an ant is Taj Mahal. And what is your Taj Mahal for an ant? Nothing, heap of white rubbish.
00:07So Taj Mahal for example was made in the memory of a beautiful woman. She was fair in color. The structure has to be white.
00:13She was curvaceous. So the structure has to have great curves. So you appreciate it because that's a form of the human female.
00:18The ant won't appreciate it because that's not the way an ant looks.
00:21Think of what pigeons and crows do to the Eiffel Tower for example. So our definitions of beauty and greatness are all egoistic.
00:30So most of that which we appreciate is nothing but an expression, an extension of our own limited center.
00:36Am I saying all structures and everything made or composed by man is useless, futile? Not really.
00:43Look at the Bhagavad Gita. Look at several other pieces of art, music, literature.
00:47If you look at them and they take you to a point beyond yourself, then you must accord them respect.
00:52But if they just represent your own fancies, your own biases, then there is actually nothing great about them.
00:59They are just ant hills.