42. *Every body is beautiful*

When you feel comfortable with your body, a certain grace happens to you. Understand that skin diseases happen mostly because you have some hatred towards your body. They happen because you have low self-esteem and disrespect for your own body.

You don't understand this and instead go about finding a cure for the skin disease. The root of it lies in your own cerebral layer that you have built over the years. You always look at another person's body and want to have a body like that. When you love your body, when you feel comfortable with it, you will look and feel beautiful.

In Ramayana, the Indian epic written by Tulsidas, it is said that when Sita walked into the court of Janaka, everyone including the great sages and Rishis like Vasishta and Sita's own father, Janaka, stood up to pay respect to her. Such was the sublime grace that exuded from her.

In Tantra there is a technique wherein you wake up every morning and touch your body at every point with deep love, and allow the subtle body to settle down in the gross or physical body upon awakening.

Anyhow, the more images you have collected from outside, the thicker your cerebral layer is. In earlier days, people were not so complex and neurotic; they were simple. The cerebral layer did not exist or it was there as a very thin layer.