How One Becomes Perfect

Self-Inquiry—Self-Appraisal:

(a) Rate yourself 1-9 (see scale) at each of the 27 items below,

based on the extent you are that in your daily life.

1--------2--------3--------4--------5--------6--------7--------8--------9

Never Rarely Occasionally Often Always

(b) Mark the three teachings most important to you now.

(c) Put a * * by any “impossibles” (that at this point seem hopelessly unattainable at this point) for revisiting later.

(d) What one major change would raise your self appraisal two levels?

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In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna says:

“Learn from Me now the qualities that make the loving yogi (you) one with Me, the Godhead. There is no higher achievement in life!

___ 1) Cultivate a pure intellect.

___ 2) Free your mind and heart of delusion.

___ 3) Be self-restrained, give up the ego.

___ 4) Subdue your senses through steady will.

___ 5) Abandon the world’s sights, tastes, and noises.

___ 6) Put aside with no regret the likes and dislikes so burdensome in your life.

___ 7) Seek solitude.

___ 8) Eat but little.

___ 9) Lead a simple, self-reliant life.

___10) Curb your thoughts, speech and actions.

___11) Be detached, impersonal.

___12) Engage your mind always in concentration, contemplation, and meditation on Brahman.

___13) Cast from yourself all egotism, violence, arrogance, desire, anger, attachment.

___14) Turn your back on luxuries and property, possess little and shed any sense of ‘mine.’

___15) Be calm, at peace with yourself and others.

___16) Enter into the supreme state of unity with Me, as I am Truth, Consciousness, and Bliss; be united with Me, Brahman, the True Self Within.

___17) Be tranquil of mind and heart, neither craving nor grieving anything or anyone.

___18) Accept all people equally and serve Me, Divinity, in every living creature.

___19 Love Me most dearly. To love is to know Me (Divinity), to know My innermost nature, the Truth that I am. Through this sacred and deep knowing you gain access to Me. As a deep knower of the Divine you actually become the Divine.

___20) Do not renounce action itself, only your sense of doership; while you engage in worldly action be but an instrument of the Divine.

___21) Surrender, and there is no weariness in your work.

___22) Mentally cast all thoughts and actions on Me.

___23) Know I am your best friend and only refuge.

___24) Fix your mind and intellect on Me and be solely devoted to Me.

___25) If you truly know that all acts of the mind, senses, and body are Divinity, then your sense of doership, of ‘I’ and ‘mine’ leaves you.

___26) Have no concern but to do Divinity’s work for Its sake only.

___27) Be only interested in merging in God.

It is by loving Divinity that you rise from the human to the Divine!”

– Krishna

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