How can we understand that the attractiveness of all attractive things comes from Krishna?

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How can we say that everything attractive is coming from Krishna? We can simply ask where does this attractiveness come from? Somebody is brilliant. Intellectually brilliant. Somebody is physically attractive.
In the Ramayana, when Ravana approaches Sita, he thinks of this as a typical sexual conquest. So normally when a boy wants to approach a girl, what does he do? He tries to praise that girl’s beauty. Then he tries to talk about how wealthy I am.
And then he derives his competitors. So Ramayana tries to do the same three things. He tries to speak about Sita’s beauty.
Now when he says that, one interesting point he says is Oh Sita, you are so beautiful that I think after the creator made you, he must have retired. He must have retired. When I read that, long ago, when I was 25-30 years ago, I had seen some Hindi movie or Hindi movie song.
Should I praise the one who made you? So what is happening over here? One is saying that okay, this person is so beautiful. Now that person, they may have done some facial makeup or things like that. But you know, some people just born beautiful.
That’s not a something which they have done. It’s a gift given to them. So what is happening with Ravana? He is acknowledging that this beauty is actually not made by me.
It’s not even made by you. It’s made by the creator. He is thinking the creator has made this for my enjoyment.
So he is not seeing the connection with the creator. He is seeing it only for his gratification. So, when somebody is very beautiful, when somebody is very clever, somebody is very strong, somebody is very skilled, we understand that all those attractive features are gifts given by Krishna to those people.
Why are they given? It’s based on their past karma. Now, it depends on them how they are going to use it now. So, they may use it positively, they may use it negatively.
But when we see that those attractive things are coming from Krishna in the sense that those are gifts given to them by Krishna. It’s like, if somebody sings very well. Now, if we did a microscopic study of their voice box, it’s not that their voice chords are differently constructed entirely.
It’s not that they made some special element. They are made of the same component as our voice chords are. But they have that ability.
They sing so nicely. So, how do they do that? They have trained their voice chords, that’s true. They are practicing, but still there is some innate gift that is there.
So, where exactly is that gift coming from? We might find some material mechanism to correlate that. But ultimately, when they were in their mother’s womb, they were not adjusting their throat chords to make it better. Isn’t it? So, it’s a gift.
So, whatever is attractive that we have, we may have trained and worked to develop it. But we also are given it. And that gift is what is coming from Krishna.
That’s how we can see attractive objects and their attractiveness coming from Krishna.