From the true standpoint, the divine perfection is the whole (Mother makes a global gesture), and the fact that within this whole nothing can be missing is precisely what makes it perfect. [[Mother later clarified this point: 'It is impossible for anything to be missing because it is impossible for anything not to be part of the whole. Nothing can exist apart from the whole. But I am taking this now to its extreme limit of meaning - not down-to-earth, but to the heights, to the extreme limits of meaning. I will explain: everything is not necessarily contained within a given universe, because one universe is only one mode of manifestation - but all possible universes exist. And so I always come back to the same thing: nothing can exist apart from the whole. If we give the whole the name of "God," for example, then we say that nothing can exist apart from Him. But words are so earthbound, aren't they?' (Mother makes a down-to-earth gesture.) ]] Consequently, perfection means that each thing is in its place, exactly what it should be, and that relationships among things are also exactly what they should be. Perfection is one way to approach the Divine; Unity is another. But Perfection is a global approach: all is there and all is as it should be - that is to say, the perfect expression of the Divine (you can't even say 'of His Will,' because that still implies something apart, something emanating from Him!). It could be put like this (but it brings it down considerably): He is what He is and exactly as He wants to be. The 'exactly as He wants to be' takes us down quite a few steps, but it still gives an idea of what I mean by 'perfection'! Divine perfection implies infinity and eternity - all is coexistent beyond time and space. page 254 - Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 7th July - 1961

But Perfection is only one side, one special way of approaching the Divine. There are innumerable sides, angles, aspects - innumerable ways to approach the Divine. When I am walking, for example, doing japa, I have the sense of Unity (I have spoken to you of all the things I mention when I am upstairs walking: will, truth, purity, perfection, unity, immortality, eternity, infinity, silence, peace, existence, consciousness - the list goes on). And when one follows a particular tack and does succeed in reaching or approaching or contacting the Divine, one realizes through experience that these many approaches differ only in their most external forms - the contact itself is identical. It's like looking through a kaleidoscope - you revolve around a center, a globe, and see it under various aspects; but as soon as the contact is established, it's identical. page 256 - Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 12th July - 1961

While 'walking' in my room, a series of invocations or prayers have come to me [[See 'Prayers of the Consciousness of the Cells,' Agenda 1, pp. 337-350. ]] (I didn't choose them - they were dictated to me) in which I implore the Lord to manifest his Perfection (and I am quite aware of how foolish this expression is, but it does correspond to an aspiration). [[As Mother had previously said that 'all is as it should be ... the Divine is what He is and exactly as He wants to be,' one shouldn't need to 'implore' Him to manifest his Perfection. ]] [254] When I say 'manifest,' I mean to manifest in our physical, material world - I'm asking for the transformation of this world. And the moment I utter one of these invocations, the sense of the particular approach it represents is there; that's why I am now able to give such a lecture on Perfection - Perfection is one of these approaches. 'Manifest this,' I tell Him, 'Manifest that, manifest Your Perfection....' (The series is very long and it takes me quite a while to go through it all.) Well, each time I say 'Manifest Your Perfection,' I have an awareness of what constitutes Perfection - it is something global. page 255 - Mother's Agenda , volume 2 , 7th July - 1961