Bhakti is different from beauty

Visit Puri; your eyes are on the idol.
Visit Konark; yours on the sculptures.
While with your wife you see her soul.
While with a pimp, you see her flesh.

Spiritual and aesthetic are different.
24.12.2000, [bakthi = devotion to God]

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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