There was a musician by name Johnson in Italy. He makes violins. He takes one or two years to make a violin. Others ask him ‘Johnson, if you take one or two years to make a violin, how can you live?’ Then he said ‘brother, God is totally perfect. So for that God, who is perfection, I do a perfect job’. ‘God is total. So my work should also be total and perfect.

ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदम् पूर्णात् पूर्णमुदच्यते |

पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ||

ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ||

Purnamadah purnamidam Purnat, Purnamudachyate; Purnasya Purnamadaya Purnameva Vashishayte’. God is all perfection. I should also be perfect.

It is no service at all if you think that you are serving because of the pressure of the Organisation. You should do it to satisfy your conscience. One may know or not but one should do to the satisfaction of the conscience because God is all perfection. We should do it perfectly to satisfy that God who is all perfection. (DTB Vol.6, pp. 13-14)

You are flowers in God’s Garden,

You are stars in God’s sky,

You must love flowers and stars

You are wonderful beings in God’s world.

You must possess the head of Sankaracharya,

The heart of Buddha, and

The hands of Janaka Maharaja

Then you will be perfect men.

(BA, p. 79)

Man cannot attain perfection without regulated habits. When a man’s life is regulated by good habits then only can he become a good human. However, modern man today is tormented by excessive desires. He is concerned very much about the devaluation of ‘currency’ - be it a rupee, pound or dollar. However, it should be remembered that men are more valuable than all the wealth of the world. Man himself creates value for rupee, dollar, pound, bullion land, etc. Man is not able to realize, but the actual thing that has declined in value is ‘Value of Man’. The devaluation of man is responsible for the rise in the prices of all other commodities. There will be imbalance if man stands on one side of the scale while the rest of the world on the other. Therefore, man is the most valuable object in the entire creation of God. It is unwise to lament about the apparent devaluation of land, money, bullion etc; while on the other hand the actual thing that had declined in value is the value of man himself.  (M, p. 224)