Paramahansa Yoganandaji Maharaj

To be truly attractive, you must be attractive mentally and spiritually as well as physically. The present generation links attractiveness to the style shops and beauty parlors. But beauty has to be more than external. You can be looking at the most handsome man and the most beautiful woman in the world, yet right beneath their pleasing appearances you may discover much hidden ugliness. They are like the magnificent sarcophagi from the tombs of ancient Egypt. How beautiful, how perfect the carved images look! But when you lift the cover, you find nothing beautiful in the dead form within. If the spiritual qualities of our true soul-nature are dead, an attractive physical body is little more than a casket to hold the inner withered consciousness.