Who should see themselves in the mirror?
I never heard for myself that you look very beautiful. Not even with boys because I have never come in contact with many boys and I never heard from the girls I was around whether you look good today or you look beautiful. Now I never tried to know why this was or is there. But one day it arose in my heart that this is the case with me or it is so with everyone. Or you may not like the people around me as I am because those who think like us, think for us wholeheartedly, they will also praise us and they will also give our happiness in sorrow. In today’s modernity, I never used artificial makeup things on my face nor did I use any chemical-rich product. Because if I look like that then I am not modern nor do I use any kind of make-up and makeup products around the world. I believe in living simple and living a simple life. My question is, can I make myself beautiful by doing makeup? Or the person who does not make up is old-fashioned or non-modern? Or one who does not believe in being more stylish, does not understand wearing clothes.
So many similar things came to me and I was forced to think. Why do we want to look beautiful? By the way everyone wants them to look beautiful and nice but why do we want to put on this unnecessary and fake mask of beauty and want to make ourselves and the world know that we are beautiful. But why ?
I would love to narrate a little story to make you’ll comprehend this :
It was a long time ago. A monk used to live in some village. Many children were educated in his shelter. One day a disciple came to his hermitage to study, then the preceptorial said, “You sit, I come now. The disciple sat in his place and started waiting for preceptorial .” Then he saw that preceptorial was looking at himself in the mirror and he laughed at preceptorial after that preceptorial looked at the disciple, he saw that the disciple looked at me looking in the mirror. The disciple kept quiet and waited for the preceptorial . After some time preceptorial came in the room and said to the disciple that you were laughing at seeing me, why is there no need to look so ugly in the mirror?
The disciple did not say anything. Then preceptorial said that both the person should be beautiful or ugly and should look in the mirror. “Preceptorial said that the beautiful person should look in the mirror so that no such sinful crime, misdeeds can be proved by him by mistake, so that his beauty can be soothed. Whenever he sees himself in the mirror, he remembers that he should not commit any heinous crime. And his beauty always remain. And the ugly person should look in the mirror so that he can maintain his beauty with his beautiful deeds, beautiful thoughts. Beauty is made by one’s actions, not by beautiful physical appearance . You are beautiful and ugly by your deeds and this is called external and internal beauty“.
All are beautiful, we are none to say that they are less beautiful and they are more beautiful because they are natural, we have no hand in why we are like this. Yes, everyone has the desire to look beautiful. All the people in this world are beautiful. Everything is different, body texture, color, face, physical appearance . When God has given you different color and beauty from the very beginning, then who are you to compare yourself to others? If you become like others then what will be different then? Everything will look the same again. After all, how would you see something different? Even the finger print of our hand is different which makes us different from other. In your eyes, the face, the color, the beauty of what matters or the beauty of the heart matters. By the way, external beauty attracte more to some people and only then they try to contact that particular person. What is the difference between internal beauty and external beauty? The outer beauty is called the color form body, face, appearance and all and the inner beauty is reflected by the person’s egoism, behavior towards the other people, the way of talking, the way of treating others. A person is beautiful and if he speaks bitter words to you, how will you feel? What is the use of her outer beauty? And how would you feel if a person spoke sweet words, despite not being beautiful with a beautiful, gorgeous appearance ? This is the difference between the two.