{"id":5236,"date":"2008-01-25T20:11:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T20:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/01\/beauty-lies-total-abandonment-observer-and-observed\/"},"modified":"2008-01-25T20:11:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T20:11:41","slug":"beauty-lies-total-abandonment-observer-and-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/01\/beauty-lies-total-abandonment-observer-and-observed\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty lies in the total abandonment of the observer and the observed"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Beauty lies in the total abandonment of the observer and the observed and there can be self-abandonment only when there is total austerity \u2013 not the austerity of the priest with its harshness, its sanctions, rules and obedience \u2013 not austerity in clothes, ideas, food and behaviour \u2013 but the austerity of being totally simple which is complete humility. 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