A mighty kinship is this daring’s cause.
All we attempt in this imperfect world,
Looks forward or looks back beyond Time’s gloss
To its pure idea and firm inviolate type
In an absolute creation’s flawless skill.
To seize the absolute in shapes that pass,
To fix the eternal’s touch in time-made things,
This is the law of all perfection here.
A fragment here is caught of heaven’s design;
Else could we never hope for greater life
And ecstasy and glory could not be.

- 'Savitri' by Sri Aurobindo
Book II The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds
Canto II The Kingdom of Subtle Matter  





I remember my professor of anatomy in medical school. He used to push all his students to do better and better. From him I heard for the first time the word Yoga for perfection. Whether it was sharpening a scalpel, studying or dissection he said that one should always aspire to "do Yoga". These things helped me, these things became a part of me. Discipline became a part of me, hard work became a part of me and the aspiration for perfection too became a part of my nature.

- Dr. G. Venkataswamy