JEEVAN BHAGWAT

Jeevan Bhagwat is an award winning poet from Toronto, Canada.  He is the recipient of the Monica Ladell Prize for Poetry (2003, 2005) and the Scarborough Urban Hero Award for Arts and Culture (2015).  In 2020, his second poetry collection entitled Luminescence was published by IN Publications. 

Twitter: @j_bhagwat

AN EXCERPT FROM “A BEAUTIFUL REVELATION”

From the dawn of civilization, humankind has always sought to answer the question, “What is Beauty?” This simple question has perplexed philosophers, theologians and scientists alike and has resulted in the postulation of numerous definitions across different disciplines. What has emerged is an abundance of terminological ambiguities that neither satisfactorily encapsulate the underlying essence of Beauty, nor provide for any critical insight into its revelatory aspects. Perhaps this is because Beauty has myriad expressions that are revealed to the human consciousness at different levels or stages of its evolution. This essay will examine four revelatory aspects of Beauty and situate them in the context of the ongoing evolution of human consciousness.

As sentient beings in a physical universe, we perceive reality through sensory perception from which we construct and make sense of our world. In doing so, we interact with nature and each other which necessarily opens us up to what we come to know as Beauty. This element of truth is more than a mere ideation or construct of the human mind. It aids in the evolution of our species from a physical, emotional, and spiritual perspective by how it is revealed to us.

Read more of “A Beautiful Revelation” in Solum Journal Volume I.