What’s the difference between effortful beauty and effortless beauty?

One Answer from the group – I think the same as becoming and being.

Correct.

Effortful beauty arises out of dissatisfaction, and is Ego driven, leading one to competition, greed, desires for more and more, anger, cheating, hatred, etc.

Effortless beauty is what is given to you.
It generates satisfaction ( of what we have and what we are ).

The most challenging thing to do is to accept ourselves as we are.
Ego doesn’t allow us to do that.
That’s why we are not happy.

Ego keeps us on the run to look bigger, higher, more intelligent, more powerful, prosperous, etc., than we are.

Nature is in its – well, natural state.

A rose doesn’t try to become Jasmine or vice versa.
Rose is rose, and Jasmine is Jasmine – and both are happy in what they are.

Consciousness manifests as infinite manifestations.

No one creation is exactly like the other.

That is the law of consciousness, and each creation WILL be different.

Why?

Just because.

Because the nature of consciousness is infinity.

How else would it manifest its infinite nature?

Nothing gets repeated here.

Buddha will never be created again, nor Krishna, nor Mahavir.

And yet, out of ignorance, we keep on copying them, thinking that by doing that, we will reach where they were.
And the fact is, they reached where they were by challenging the age-old traditions of rites and rituals, and they found their path, and we should too.

Only by pursuing our path within will we come in contact with the consciousness – the ultimate infinite entity.

Buddha said, “ Appa deepo bhav” – be your own guiding light.

“Thinking” that I’m a Jain, and I have to do this – is TRYING to become a Jain – all that happens at the mind level – very limited.

But formless consciousness is infinite.

Once you connect with it, how it will filter through you is unpredictable.

Every enlightened person will have their own flavor to bring it out.

That is effortless beauty because you are expressing yourself – WHAT YOU ARE – not WHAT YOU WANT TO LOOK LIKE ( based on others around you ).
A lot to learn from nature – if you reflect on it intensely and ponder.

With fathomless peace and tranquility within you, accepting everything as it is, without trying to alter it, and with complete gratitude for whatever has been given to us – allows the expression of effortless beauty within us.

But effortful beauty is in reality – ugliness.

Copying others ( including Mahavir or Buddha ) is ignorance.

Finding your own path is the ultimate wisdom.

Effortless beauty has innocence.

Effortful beauty is full of deceit.

When you start seeing, palpating, and valuing innocence, know that you are on the right path of spirituality.

The universe is innocent.

Even when a lion kills, you will never see anger on his face.

If you can see that innocence in him, your spiritual depth is picking up because you have started palpating innocence within you.

What you don’t have within, you can’t see outside.

We lost our innocence a long time ago.

But it is not lost. It is there – FIND IT.