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44 International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 9 (29): 39-71, Winter 2022
However, the alchemist to complete purity and a sense
never sees the situation of calmness. (Chopra, 2005a: 80)
in this way. In his view, So, the human’s knowledge of
being perfect means getting God Almighty is biological.
rid of any role.” (Ibid: 75)
(Chopra, 2003a: 53) The human is like a child
growing up; he has to evolve
As a result, if the human toward a complete imagination
gets rid of all roles, he can be until a day that he can see
perfect and gain perfection. everything as God sees. (Ibid: 80)
Real and spiritual perfection,
according to Chopra, is in this 2. Spiritual Perfection,
way that the human in the according to Mulla Sadra
seven stages of theology and Some scholars, such as Farabi,
love can reach God and inner believe that the concept of
perfection is self-evident and
calmness and see the universe clear; the goal and end of any
as God sees it. movement are considered the
Explaining the seven steps,
perfection of that movement.
Chopra says that the reality
(Farabi, 1992: 228)
may be merely a symbol of the
In Sadra’s writings, the
functioning of God’s mind and three words kamāl, istikmāl,
if so, the primitive belief that and takāmul are synonymous.
God exists in every leaf of Therefore, in another sense,
every plant, every creature, the perfection of an object is
etc, may contain the highest from the lower levels to the
truth. At each stage, God higher levels, which ends in
makes us a journey that ends God Almighty; (Sadr ul-Din Shirazi,
