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Here's the Story of Liquid Beauty
30 April 2025
In today's Thought for the Day Śrīla Prabhupāda tells the unforgettable story of "liquid beauty."Once a man who was very powerful and strongly built but whose character was very doubtful fell in love with a beautiful girl. The girl was not only beautiful in appearance but also saintly in character, and as such she did not like the man's advances. The man, however, was insistent because of his lustful desires, and therefore the girl requested him to wait only seven days, and she set a time after that when he could meet her. The man agreed, and with high expectations he began waiting for the appointed time.
The saintly girl, however, in order to manifest the real beauty of absolute truth, adopted a method very instructive. She took very strong doses of laxatives and purgatives, and for seven days she continually passed loose stool and vomited all that she ate. Moreover, she stored all the loose stool and vomit in suitable pots. As a result of the purgatives, the so-called beautiful girl became lean and thin like a skeleton, her complexion turned blackish, and her beautiful eyes sank into the sockets of her skull. Thus at the appointed hour she waited anxiously to receive the eager man.
The man appeared on the scene well dressed and well behaved and asked the ugly girl he found waiting there about the beautiful girl he was to meet. The man could not recognize the girl he saw as the same beautiful girl for whom he was asking; indeed, although she repeatedly asserted her identity, because of her pitiable condition he was unable to recognize her.
At last the girl told the powerful man that she had separated the ingredients of her beauty and stored them in pots. She also told him that he could enjoy those juices of beauty. When the mundane poetic man asked to see these juices of beauty, he was directed to the store of loose stool and liquid vomit, which were emanating an unbearably bad smell. Thus the whole story of the beauty-liquid was disclosed to him. Finally, by the grace of the saintly girl, this man of low character was able to distinguish between the shadow and the substance, and thus he came to his senses.
This man's position was similar to the position of every one of us who is attracted by false, material beauty. The girl mentioned above had a beautifully developed material body in accordance with the desires of her mind, but in fact she was apart from that temporary material body and mind. She was in fact a spiritual spark, and so also was the lover who was attracted by her false skin.
Let us all learn from this story not to be attracted to the false of beauty of this material world.
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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Please accept my humble obeisance srila gurudeva,All glories to Prabhupada ,
What happens if someone is more attracted or attached to guru than Krishna?
Yours obediently
Shivani
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From: Austin, Texas USAMy Dear Shivani,
Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Śrīla Prabhupāda.
There is no question of being more attracted to or attached to the spiritual master than one is to Krishna. Since the spiritual master is the external manifestation of Lord Sri Krishna Who is within your heart, whatever love you have for the spiritual master is also automatically the same love you have for Krishna. And whatever love for Krishna is also automatically the same love you have for the spiritual master.
In this connection kindly note Srimad Bhagavatam, Eleventh Canto, Chapter 17, Text 27:
ācāryaṁ māṁ vijānīyān
nāvamanyeta karhicit
"One should know the ācārya as Myself and never disrespect him in any way.”
Of course is it not the spiritual master is Krishna. It is that he is non-different from Krishna because he purely represents Krishna as confirmed by the scriptures and previous acharyas.
I hope this meets you in the best of health and in a cheerful mood.
Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
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