Bhagavan Sri Krishna – The Divine Perfection : 3. Swami Krishnananda

09/01/2019
(Spoken on Sri Krishna Janmashtami, August 25, 1978)

3.1

What I mean to say is, there is a novel feature present everywhere in life, inside as well as outside, which, as I mentioned earlier, is something which can be designated only by the word ‘perfection’. What we want is perfection; it is everything, and nothing short of it. Though the grammatical meaning of the word is apparently clear to all people – we know what perfection means – the deeper implications of this grammatical significance may not be clear to our mental eye.

What is the type of perfection that we require? There is, for example, bodily perfection, to take only one example – physical perfection, the build-up of the body in a perfect manner so that it may be regarded as physiologically or muscularly complete in itself. But we will find that this is not the only thing that we need in life. A person who is muscularly fit and bodily perfect may be mentally deficient, and then we will again feel a lack of perfection in the personality.

3.2

When we think of perfection, we will not be able to completely think it even in our own minds though there is a longing for it. It is not any aspect of perfection for which we are asking or longing. It is a perfection that has to be perfect in every aspect. For this purpose, we may have to envisage the structure of life itself. It is a perfection of life that we are aspiring for, and not merely a perfection of the body or perfection of the governmental system or perfection of the community or the perfection of some particular vocation in life, etc., though that is also something which forms part of our aspiration.

There is a grand totality of concept which we always try to entertain in our minds. Many a time it is so large that it cannot be contained in our minds. It slips from our very longing itself. Very rarely can we contemplate such a thoroughness of aspiration in our minds. That is why our activities in life do not always succeed completely. We have an unconscious urge from within ourselves for a conscious realisation of something which seems to be beckoning us from the front, which keeps us always in a state of anxiety and restlessness, making us move from place to place in search of things we do not want, yet agonising us from within ourselves.

To be continued ..