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THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS
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ART AND MUSIC 3
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Copying (2)
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THE SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS
ART AND MUSIC 3
Copying (2)
Copying is the pupil's tendency, and the great master is he who is a great pupil. The one who copies must by nature be a respondent lover of nature and a follower of nature. There is a verse of a Hindustani Poet, "I will undo your curls, Oh blowing wind, if you disturb the curls of my beloved." The copier is the lover of the beauty he sees, and he does not wish to alter it. His whole effort is to keep its originality, and that is the nature of the lover of God. The copier in his constant effort draws closer and closer to beauty, thereby producing in his own nature beauty, and holding the beauty in himself he develops harmony in his nature and arrives at oneness with nature.
The copier develops the faculty of thinking deeply. Patience is naturally developed by copying. Also the copier will always keep balance, since nature, when seen as a whole, is nothing but balance. Balance is life, and the lack of it is death. The copier develops moderation in his nature, for he gently follows nature; and so he is always protected by nature, which has every support and protection of the Almighty Being, itself the very Manifestation of God.
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