Spiritually Perfect
- There are beginners, those who are practicing, the spiritually mature, and the most perfect among the mature ones.
- He who has just begun spiritual practices belongs to first class. A beginner applies marks of sandalwood paste on his forehead, applies a sectarian mark on his body and uses a rosary. He shows a lot of external signs like these. The practicing aspirant is more advanced. His tendency to show off is reduced. He has yearning for God and calls upon Him sincerely. He repeats His Name and prays to Him with a guileless heart. Who is a spiritually mature person? One who has a firm conviction that God exists and that He does everything. Such a person has seen God.
- Who is ‘the most perfect among the mature ones?’ One who has talked with God – not just seen Him, but talked to Him as a son to his father, or a mother to her child, or a friend to a friend, or as a lover to the beloved.
Ever-perfect Souls
- The ever-perfect are a class by themselves. Not every bird has a crooked beak. They are never attached to the world. There is the example of Prahlada.
- The ever-perfect are like bees, which sit only on flowers to sip honey. The ever-perfect drink the nectar of the Divine; they never seek worldly pleasures.
- Narendra, Bhavanath, and Rakhal are ever-perfect souls. They belong to the class of the ishvarakoti. Teaching them is not necessary.