Imperfection will always be there. Live with it! Don’t Identify with it.
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You are not under any obligation to be perfect. Alright!
Your incompetencies, your deficiencies are all welcome. They are the part of the game. Just be alive and alert.
And then even out of your own botched up action, something auspicious will happen. Like Shabri, she doesn’t know how to welcome a King. So, all she can do is taste the fruit and give it to him. That’s a very botched up action. Yet something auspicious is happening out of it.
You are imperfect, alright. But then even in your imperfection, there is a lot of perfection. And be sure of that the demand for perfection is a great arrogance of the ‘ego’.
To demand this out of yourself that I must be perfect is a great arrogance of the ‘ego’.
How can ‘I’ be content to anything left than perfection. ‘I’ deserve the ultimate. No, you don’t deserve the Ultimate. You are alright as you are. And that there is perfection.
Getting it?
Do whatever you must and dedicate it to perfection.
Dedicate all your imperfection to the perfect.
I could do only this much. The body is limited and thought is limited and the body could move only this much. The words could express only this much. Now, the rest is upon you. Take care! I am imperfect and I know that fully well. For me only, there are twenty-four hours in a day. I have only two hands. I have a mind that can have only this much of information. And I use words that are so limited in their communication. So, I can do only this much. Now, The remaining is upon you. You take care! And this is perfection.
What do you think? You will be perfect and what will you look like in your perfection? Lord Krishna with thousand arms, forty-thousand feet tall. You will be this, not even six feet tall, over-weight, not very pretty, beldam, having bad breath and uncertain mood.
All those things that come with the body and mind, these are the necessary accompaniment of the body, the mind. I am perfect! What do you do the first thing in class, you belch. Mr. Perfect is belching and if that was not sufficient then Mr. Perfect comes up with a loud and incredibly, smelly fart…