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.