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twin aspects of our goal; our perfection and human perfection.
More on Perfection in action:
1. Hurry and tension makes for inefficiency in performance and that is not a sign of yogi.
2. Perfection we need and we cannot expect it in a day. More and more of the correct understanding of the system is possible by assiduous sadhana and also reading the literature of the ISRC.
Inner Peace
1. I am not feeling charmed by the inner peace or calmness but a feeling of gratitude coupled with helplessness is predominant. The motivation to prayer is more due to the feeling of duty rather than the experiences of meditation.
This is unfortunate self centredness. Calmness and peace are the criteria by which we come to know of the presence of the Divine and you want to ignore that-very unfortunate decision. When calmness and peace are reigning what is the need to feel helpless: words to which you are conditioned in thinking. Leave this harmful habit. Prayer and meditation are different and yet it is only the imperience (which you call experience) during meditation that is the motivating factor to pray.
2. Sometimes less clarity of the mind due to pleasure of the condition and carelessness.
Such an indulgence is natural when peace is felt (which you call pleasure): there is a natural tendency in such cases to take to rest or such other methods of torpor. When peace is felt as an outside fact this happens but if peace is felt internally or as our very real nature we are aware of that joy or happiness.
More on Inner Peace:
1. Aesthetics is different from spirituality in the true sense of the terms. Peace is