Art was cast into the world by superior beings, intending to clothe the truth and attract to it, by artifice, our spirits which had become incapable of loving it in the nude. – Vedic tradition
From my devotional chanting class…and also calls to mind this Hafiz:
You are the Sun in drag.
You are God hiding from yourself.
Remove all the “mine” – that is the veil.
Why ever worry about
Anything?
Listen to what your friend Hafiz
Knows for certain:
The appearance of this world
Is a Magi’s brilliant trick, though its affairs are
Nothing into nothing.
You are a divine elephant with amnesia
Trying to live in an ant
Hole.
Sweetheart, O sweetheart
You are God in
Drag!
This
is beautiful.