Doraisamy S.

Making people understand that science and religion are complementary systems of knowledge which can work hand in hand to bring about the advancement of civilization.

Beauty has always been the greatest motivator. The arms of its subtle charms stretches deep into one's soul to capture its allegiance for long or forever. When we help people realize that the Creator must be the most beautiful of anything and everything there is, and that all of beauty that our senses see, hear, touch and taste are but a reflection of His divine beauty, then they will develop a refined "sense of beauty". But there is so much ugliness paraded in the world, in the name of "beauty". Like the sense of taste of the tongue, when it is poorly developed from young, it will eat all kinds of rubbish, and not know true taste. When our "sense of beauty" is poorly developed, it will regard ugliness seeming paraded as beauty as true beauty. Beauty has form and spirit. The form gets its value from the spirit. When our outer senses are so trained by so much of ugliness our inner faculties fail to see God's beauty which is the inner spirit or inner beauty in all things.

Baha'i Community Development Programs, Discourse on Science, Religion and Development, Junior Youth Empowerment, Native Community Development