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These are the first major results of the spiritual transformation that follow as a necessary consequence of the nature of Supermind. But if there is to be not only a perfection of the inner existence, of the consciousness, of an inner delight of existence, but a perfection of the life and action, two other questions present themselves from our mental view-point which have to our human thought about our life and its dynamisms a considerable, even a premier importance. First, there is the place of personality in the gnostic being,—whether the status, the building of the being will be quite other than what we experience as the form and life of the person or similar. If there is a personality and it is in any way responsible for its actions, there intervenes, next, the question of the place of the ethical element and its perfection and fulfilment in the gnostic nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p28</ref>

= Body & and Perfection =

== Perfecting the Body ==

<div style="color: #000000;">This is one of the things one discovers gradually as the body becomes ready for transformations. It is quite a remarkable instrument in the see that it can experience two contraries at the same time. There is a certain state of body-consciousness which brings things together, totalises things that in other states of consciousness alternate or even in certain others oppose each other. But if one has reached up there, in the vital and the mind, a development sufficient for harmonising opposites (that of course, is quite indispensable), when one has succeeded in doing this, there are moments when it alternates, you see, one thing comes after the other, while what is remarkable in the consciousness of the body is that it can feel ("feel", can we say "feel"?—"experience"—the word "aware" expresses it best) all things simultaneously, as though you were hot and cold at once, as though you were active and passive at once, and everything becomes like that. Then you begin to grasp the totality of movements in the cells. It is something much more concrete naturally, but much more perfect in the body than in any other part of the being. This means that if things continue in this way, it will be proved that the physical, material instrument is the most perfect of all. That is why perhaps it is the most difficult to transform, to perfect. But of all, it is the one most capable of perfection. (The Mother, 21 April 1954) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/21-april-1954#p31</ref></div>

Be on your guard against the wrath of the body. Control your actions, and leaving behind wrong ways of acting, practise perfect conduct in action. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/anger#p10</ref>

~~Be on your guard against~~ One who aspires to the ~~wrath of~~ ineffable Peace, one whose mind is awakened, whose thoughts are not entangled in the ~~body. Control your actions, and leaving behind wrong ways~~ net of ~~acting~~desire, ~~practise perfect conduct in action~~that one is said to be "bound upstream" (towards perfection). ~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/~~anger~~pleasure#p10</ref>

~~One who aspires to~~ As for the question about the illness, perfection in the physical plane is indeed part of the ideal of the ~~ineffable Peace~~Yoga, ~~one whose mind~~ but it is ~~awakened~~the last item and, ~~whose thoughts are~~ so long as the fundamental change has not ~~entangled~~ been made in the ~~net of desire~~material consciousness to which the body belongs, ~~that~~ one ~~is said to be "bound upstream" (towards~~ may have a certain perfection)on other planes without having immunity in the body.<~~/span~~ref><~~ref~~u>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0331/~~pleasure~~illness-and-health#~~p10~~p57</ref>

As for the question about the illness, perfection in the physical plane is indeed part of the ideal of the Yoga, but it is the last item and, so long as the fundamental change has not been made in the material consciousness to which the body belongs, one may have a certain perfection on other planes without having immunity in the body.~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p57</ref>~~ Transformation and the Body : The supramental perfection means that the body becomes conscious, is filled with consciousness and that as this is the Truth consciousness all its actions, functionings etc. become by the power of the consciousness within it harmonious, luminous, right and true—without ignorance or disorder.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/transformation-and-the-body#p3</ref>

== Body Perfection or Immortality ==

When the body has learned the art of constantly progressing towards an increasing perfection, we shall be well on the way to overcoming the inevitability of death. (The Mother, 16 January 1972) ~~~~ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/16-january-1972#p1</ref> ~~~~ <div style="color: #000000;">We are on earth in order to progress and to perfect ourselves in the course of many successive lives. What we cannot do this time, we shall do next time; and every progress we make this time will help us then. (The Mother, 15 November 1971) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/15-november-1971#p1</ref></div>

We are on earth in order to progress and to perfect ourselves in the course of many successive lives. What we cannot do this time, we shall do next time; and every progress we make this time will help us then. (The Mother, 15 November 1971) <~~/span~~ref><~~span style="background~~u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/15-november-~~color: transparent; color:~~ 1971#~~0066cc;"~~p1</ref>

<~~div~~ span style="color: #000000;">Ah! No. You are looking from the wrong side. They could escape dying only if their body did not decay. It is just because their body decays that they die. It is because their body becomes useless that they die. If they are not to die, their body should not become useless. This is just the contrary. It is precisely because the body decays, declines and ends in a complete degradation that death becomes necessary. But if the body followed the progressive movement of the inner being, if it had the same sense of progress and perfection as the psychic being, there would be no necessity for it to die. One year added to another need not bring a deterioration. It is only a habit of Nature. It is only a habit of what is happening at this moment. And that is exactly the cause of death. One can foresee quite well, on the contrary, that the movement for perfection which is at the beginning of life might continue under another form. I have already told you that one does not foresee an uninterrupted growth, for that would need changing the height of the houses after some time! But this growth in height may be changed into a growth in perfection: the perfection of the form. All the imperfections of the form may be gradually corrected, all the weaknesses replaced by strength, all the incapacities by skill. Why should it not be like this? You do not think in that way because you have the habit of seeing things otherwise. But there is no reason why this should not happen. (The Mother, 17 June 1953) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/17-june-1953#p36</ref></~~div~~span>

~~~~But, you see, when our little humanity says three hundred years with the same body, you say: "Why! when I am fifty it already begins to decompose, so at three hundred it will be a horrible thing!" But it is not like that. If it is three hundred years with a body that goes on perfecting itself from year to year, perhaps when the three hundredth year is reached one will say: "Oh! I still need three or four hundred more to be what I want to be." If each year that passes represents a progress, a transformation, one would like to have more and more years in order to be able to transform oneself more and more. When something is not exactly as you want it to be—take, for example, simply one of the things I have just described, say, plasticity or lightness or elasticity or luminosity, and none of them is exactly as you want it, then you will still need at least two hundred years more so that it may be accomplished, but you never think: "How is it? It is still going to last two hundred years more!" On the contrary, you say: "Two hundred years more are absolutely necessary so that it may be truly done." And then, when all is done, when all is perfect, then there is no longer any question of years, for you are immortal. (The Mother, 20 May 1953)~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/20-may-1953#p44</ref>

= Integral Perfection =

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