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== Perfect Individual ==

<~~div~~ span style="color: #000000;">A child should never be scolded. I am accused of speaking ill of parents! But I have seen them at work, you see, and I know that ninety per cent of parents snub a child who comes spontaneously to confess a mistake: "You are very naughty. Go away, I am busy"—instead of listening to the child with patience and explaining to him where his fault lies, how he ought to have acted. And the child, who had come with good intentions, goes away quite hurt, with the feeling: "Why am I treated thus?" Then the child sees his parents are not perfect—which is obviously true of them today—he sees that they are wrong and says to himself: "Why does he scold me, he is like me!" (The Mother, 8 January 1951) <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/8-january-1951#p31</ref></~~div~~span>

In the Dhammapada: a supreme disinterestedness and a supreme liberation is to follow the discipline of self-perfection, the march of progress, not with a precise end in view but because this march of progress is the profound law and the purpose of earthly life, the truth of universal existence and because you put yourself in harmony with it, spontaneously, whatever the result may be.~~~~ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-brahmin#p43</ref> If this is our evolutionary destiny, it remains for us to see where we stand at this juncture in the evolutionary progression,—a progression which has been cyclic or spiral rather than in a straight line or has at least journeyed in a very zigzag swinging curve of advance,—and what prospect there is of any turn towards a decisive step in the near or measurable future. In our human aspiration towards a personal perfection and the perfection of the life of the race the elements of the future evolution are foreshadowed and striven after, but in a confusion of half-enlightened knowledge; there is a discord between the necessary elements, an opposing emphasis, a profusion of rudimentary unsatisfying and ill-accorded solutions. These sway between the three principal preoccupations of our idealism,—the complete single development of the human being in himself, the perfectibility of the individual, a full development of the collective being, the perfectibility of society, and, more pragmatically restricted, the perfect or best possible relations of individual with individual and society and of community with community. An exclusive or dominant emphasis is laid sometimes on the individual, sometimes on the collectivity or society, sometimes on a right and balanced relation between the individual and the collective human whole. One idea holds up the growing life, freedom or perfection of the human individual as the true object of our existence,—whether the ideal be merely a free self-expression of the personal being or a self-governed whole of complete mind, fine and ample life and perfect body, or a spiritual perfection and liberation. In this view society is there only as a field of activity and growth for the individual man and serves best its function when it gives as far as possible a wide room, ample means, a sufficient freedom or guidance of development to his thought, his action, his growth, his possibility of fullness of being. ~~~~ <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-divine-life#p34</ref>

It is, then, this spiritual fulfilment of the urge to individual perfection and an inner completeness of being that we mean first when we speak of a divine life. It is the first essential condition of a perfected life on earth, and we are therefore right in making the utmost possible individual perfection our first supreme business. The perfection of the spiritual and pragmatic relation of the individual with all around him is our second preoccupation; the solution of this second desideratum lies in a complete universality and oneness with all life upon earth which is the other concomitant result of an evolution into the gnostic consciousness and nature. But there still remains the third desideratum, a new world, a change in the total life of humanity or, at the least, a new perfected collective life in the earth-nature. This calls for the appearance not only of isolated evolved individuals acting in the unevolved mass, but of many gnostic individuals forming a new kind of beings and a new common life superior to the present individual and common existence. A collective life of this kind must obviously constitute itself on the same principle as the life of the gnostic individual. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-divine-life#p19</ref>

== Perfection in Work ==

You will become more and more perfect in your work as the consciousness grows, increases, widens and is enlightened.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/progress-and-perfection-in-work#p1</ref> In all action, all work done, the degree of perfection depends upon the degree of consciousness.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/progress-and-perfection-in-work#p3</ref> Perfection in the work must be the aim, but it is only by a very patient effort that this can be obtained.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/progress-and-perfection-in-work#p19</ref> Open yourself more and more to the Divine's force and your work will progress steadily towards perfection.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/progress-and-perfection-in-work#p21</ref> Let nothing short of perfection be your ideal in work and you are sure to become a true instrument of the Divine.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/progress-and-perfection-in-work#p25</ref> There must be order and harmony in work. Even what is apparently the most insignificant thing must be done with perfect perfection, with a sense of cleanliness, beauty, harmony and order.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/progress-and-perfection-in-work#p26</ref> The perfection of the work done is much more important than its bulk or the bigness of its scope.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/progress-and-perfection-in-work#p38</ref> In works, aspiration towards Perfection is true spirituality.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/progress-and-perfection-in-work#p45</ref>

=== Practical Tips for Perfection in Work ===

Do not worry about mistakes in work. Often you imagine that things are badly done by you when really you have done them very well; but even if there are mistakes, it is nothing to be sad about. Let the consciousness grow—only in the divine consciousness is there an entire perfection. The more you surrender to the Divine, the more will there be the possibility of perfection in you.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/practical-concerns-in-work#p39</ref> Someone who is learning to paint or play music or write and does not like to have his mistakes pointed out by those who already know—how is he to learn at all or reach any perfection of technique?~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/practical-concerns-in-work#p45</ref>

== Perfection and Inter-relation with Others ==

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