The theme of today’s reflection is if you want to be perfect. The young man was much better than any other lived at his time. But still he lacked something. How to understand it better?
I remember the famous saying in one of the languages of India that human is created half animal and half divine. It is a scale to measure our position based on our behaviour. Most of us live in almost the center. There is a chance to fall to the animal state as well as a chance to elevate to the Divine state. Our free will and capacity to decide determine our position on this scale.
In this scale of inhuman – human – divine the rich young man stood at the center, a human. The inhuman here means those who follow the way of the animal, who break the laws and commit murder, adultery, oppress others, unjust and so on. The rich young man, by obeying the commandments of God could attain the level of human in the scale of behavior.
Jesus calls him for a higher level – the level of Perfection / divine. It can be attained only by total focus on Jesus, by liberating oneself from all the bondages of the earth. For the young man the bondage was his wealth and he could not liberate himself from that bondage to become perfect.
We are called to be perfect since we are the followers of Christ. How far we keep this detachment spirit to the material world and its pleasures?
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