The Mothers message reads: “We thirst for perfection. Not this human perfection which is a perfection of the ego and bars the way to the divine perfection. But that one perfection which has the power to manifest.” [Message from 1962, CWM 15:173]
There is a perfection appropriate to each type as well as at every level. It is the harmonious balance of the maximum capacity and qualities possible. Normally Nature puts a ceiling to this possible perfection so as not to disturb the balance of creation.
The human perfection consists mainly of a righteous ethical living, an intelligent mind with a beautiful heart, a strong and healthy body and life force, a civilized, cultured and refined sense and taste and certain qualities that are characteristically high in the developed humanity such as kindness and sympathy, nobility, courage, honesty, truthfulness, self discipline and a reasonable mastery over impulses and sentiments, a religious or philosophical turn towards higher things, sincerity and humility in one’s dealings with others but without losing dignity and self-respect. Most of all the ability to reflect and understand and change through the development of buddhi or a higher intellect.
This high human perfection was epitomised in India as the Arya. In some other cultures too something
similar was there especially in ancient Greece.
Yet there is a limit to this human perfection. Man, even the highest and best is still a seeker of knowledge and not its natural possessor. His strength acts within limits and his highest idealism of love and harmony often remains a dream half fulfilled. He seeks peace and joy that never diminish but what he experiences are only fragments and moments of these divine qualities. With all his qualities and capacities he still remains bound to his ego-self, at best the sattwic ego and the knot of desire, ambition and hurt and fear, sorrow and suffering, anger and lust, howmuchever subdued yet linger in his subconscious parts ready to erupt and overtake his life and create various imbalances and diseases. Man is still identified with his surface ego-self and the personality of the moment. He is ignorant of his soul, of God’s purpose in him and the heights and vastnesses of greater levels of consciousness. Even the high flowering of the sage and Saint, hero and martyr, seer and mystic have partial glimpses of the higher possibilities.
Now the Divine Perfection is the fulfilment of the human aspiration for the highest and best in the Divine. It means to be free of all shadows and fear, free of ignorant attachments and sorrow and suffering. It means to be free in the infinite and the eternal, to become conscious of immortality and know death to be unreal. It means to manifest Omnipotence and omniscience in practical terms, to be in a state of constant inner Peace and Bliss independent of circumstances, to love unconditionally, to be full of godlike forces of strength and compassion and wisdom and light and harmony and sweetness. It means to be inwardly free and be guided by an inner intuition rather than social, moral, religious and ethical standards. This divine perfection growing within man should be eventually able to free even the body from degeneration, disease and death by transmuting the present law of its working into a divine working.
