Jyot Singh ji,
The purpose of this particular discussion is to come to determine what are the reality / non-reality of such things as those that you refer to, namely beauty, child, small and hands. And if I may be allowed to continue talking too much, and at the risk of sidetracking, this is what I think.
Child and the smallness of its hands are ideas conceived of based on particular set of experiences through the five senses and the mind. These experiences and the objects of the five senses are what exists in reality, but only when they have arisen, not before and not after they fell away instantly.
Beauty is a conventional value some reflecting the reality of particular kinds of experiences, but mostly based on perversion of perception on the part of the individuals concerned. When the object is a concept as in a “child’s small hands”, the idea of beauty here is associated with something that lasts in time. This is perversion of both perception and consciousness, in terms of permanence.
When there is attachment, the perversion in terms of beauty, permanence and happiness is at the level of perception and consciousness. However if one thought somehow that a child’s hand is particularly beautiful as compared to say a young woman’s hands, this may be associated with ideas such as that of the “innocence and purity of a child.” It is here that delusion sets in and along with perception and consciousness there is perversion of ‘view’ as well.
