and does not exclude the possibility of finding expression through the opposite. It can express itself through either of the opposites according to the logic implied in the situation. That is why it transcends the opposites and is capable of giving a rational response to all the possible situations in life. It ensures perfect adaptability without surrendering the standpoint of the Truth, and secures an unshakable peace and sense of harmony in the midst of diverse situations which must be baffling to those who have not had all-sided development.
Human activities are limited by the opposites and perfection is beyond them. It should not be imagined, however, that perfection has no human element about it. Human beings are Perfection is the supreme development of the human unhappy, and they laugh to make themselves and others happy, but even a Perfect Man who is eternally happy is not without a sense of humour. In other words, perfection does not consist in being inhuman, but super-human; it is the full development of that rationality which is implicit in humanity.
Perfection does not belong to God as God, nor does it belong to man as man. We get perfection when man becomes God or when God becomes man. The finite being who is conscious Perfection belongs to man becoming God or God becoming man of his being finite is obviously short of perfection; but when he is conscious of being one with the Infinite, he is perfect. That is what happens when man gives up the illusion of being finite and attains Godhood by realising his divinity. If by the Infinite we mean that which is opposed to the finite, or that which is away from the finite, and necessarily other than the finite, that Infinite is already limited by its being unable to assert itself in and
