If not perfection..? Then What ?

Quite some time since my last post, but these topics are heavy (at least I feel so), therefore, it might not be a good idea to overload the mind with too much.. anyway, moving on,

It was a conversation.. a seemingly calm one, though every question triggered an avalanche of thoughts.. the outflow of thoughts was difficult to restraint, though, restrain has never been my forte in any case, so I poured it all out.

The question: if not change towards perfection, then what ?

And thus resumed my homily;

We may need to change... so we may Discover ourselves... and realize that we are already Perfect! But for the perfect self to function perfection-ally.. there ought to be no filter.. no space for inhibitions.. no restraints of a cage ...
Digress: I would like to believe that these restraints, filters, modulators are the outcomes of your Ego the brainchild of the forever mysterious 'Maya' . (More on this in the Ethos of the Ego  post)

Coming back: When there an awareness of this perfection .. it is sometimes referred to, as, Realizing the God Within.. The Self is the god ... The self is one with the universe or.. I am that .... hence the reference to ONENESS.

The self could only be discovered by Introspection.. for which the bias-es, the filters, the inhibitions must be cleared, these mainly comprise desires, expectations, emotions, self images and all that is learnt.
To be able to perform such deep introspection and yet be so neutral, the whole detachment process must happen;
To commence detachment .. the perception of things must be un-learnt; 

to un-learn perceptions..you must be just as receptive as you were, when you learnt, if not more,
to be receptive.. you must be humble 
to be humble One must forgo pride 
to forgo pride.. we must learn to stop nurturing the ego 
to stop nurturing the ego.... we ought to listen to our conscience (for how else will our brain get its objectives or inputs, more on that in later posts describing the triad of the ego, mind and the conscience/conscious?) 
to listen to your conscience .. we must not be disturbed by guilt or judgement
to be not disturbed by guilt.. we must not do what we feel is wrong (independent of societal definitions or right and wrong) 

to be unaffected by judgement, we must be able digest the poisons (some more on this in later posts)
to understand what is right or wrong for us .. we must adhere to the principles defined by our conscious 

these principles of will define our SWADHARMA: the religion of YOU. And in the end at those pearly gates, that is all which will matter.

And so.. (i finally concluded, without waiting for another question, lest it unleash another one of these sermons (Gyan sessions or bhashans as my closed ones like to call it :) )) ...

...Our Journey towards the realization of our perfection, begins, here and now, by training ourselves to listen to that little voice inside our heads, that always tells us what to do but allows us the discretion..

That little voice, deserves a lot more attention than we deem it. The sooner we recognize it, the more we evolve, for, that ! my friends.. is the true nature of the Conscious.

What are we striving for ?.. Perfection ?

Over the past few posts I have been deliberating on experience management and enriching life and evolving, but all this is very easy to confuse with "changing" or "improving". We come across various situations in life and relationships, where we are expected to "change" ... for our own good apparently, there is a very fine line between 'evolving' and 'changing ourselves', yet a world of a difference. I have often seen a constant strife, a persistent inner conflict within people, and their continuous struggle with life to adjust themselves to societal obligations under the garb of aiming towards perfection. A profound thinker (Jiddu krishnamurthy) once said; that, "it is no measure of health, to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society", i couldn't agree more. Society in itself is a collective being (well deliberate more on that in further posts) doing what it can to survive. We are spiritual beings, elements of consciousness cloaked under the blanket of egos, our journeys are solitary, our egos find their identity in the collective identity of society. I do not want to digress, we will discuss the ethos of the ego in some other post.. i would to deliberate on the idea of striving for perfection in this one.
Let me start with the premise first, I believe everyone is made perfect, and everyone is as perfect as they can be given their situation, circumstance and thoughts.
The issues start,  when they forget that, and try to achieve someone's, or a society's idea of perfection; when they lead such pseudo lives for so long.. they forget who they really are. People must first understand what they have forgotten; that they are perfect as they are and can continue to be themselves.
I believe "PERFECTION DOES NOT COME FROM CHANGE... IT COMES FROM DISCOVERY"
We are talking about perfection because improving, is always towards a perfectionist goal. One can improve something only until its perfect or until it reaches a state .. that matches the observer's view of perfection.
Further more, assuming that the hypothesis about every individual being unique is true, then each one's view of perfection is unique too.
Lets digress a bit, to see how a concept of perfection is conjured up in the human psyche. The idea of "perfect" is built over a period of time based on cause and effects seen (rather perceived) by each individual.. this cause and effect is basically a response to a stimulus in the environment. Now,since no two individuals could have had all the same experiences with the same environment, it is safe to assume that in some way their image of perfection is also unique.
Coming back, each individual always attempts to "tweak / improve" themselves..(and worse , sometimes others as well) to become a " Better version" until their image of perfection is reached. Now if u attempt to reach your image of perfection and I attempt to my image of perfection..we will hardly ever have a consensus on our betterment"/ "perfection".
The perfection which we ACTUALLY attempt to achieve is a societal image which again varies with the society we live in. A perfect american .. might not be a perfect Indian; similar differentiation in different societies; its just a perception of each society.
Therefore its safe to conclude that Perfection or betterment or improvement is a futile Struggle to attain a level that is a mere perception and not even a fact.. it is as elusive as a mermaid in a sea storm.
We'd rather spend the effort in eliminating every behavior programmed into us in response to stimuli from outside under the lieu of "adaptation"; in simpler words the more you let the outer world define your actions, emotions and thoughts.. the more u will drift from the perfection called "You".
Discover the "YOU" to realization of perfection.
For closure ...I would like to reiterate .. "PERFECTION IS NOT AN ACHIEVEMENT... ITS A REALIZATION"

I see that I may need to continue this post to contemplate further... until then...

Think about it :)