A tourist once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, “Do you need two statues of the same idol?” “No,” said the sculptor without looking up, “We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage.” “Where is the damage?” he asked. “There is a scratch on the nose of the idol.” Said the sculptor, still busy with his work. Asked the visitor: “Where are you going to install the idol?” The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a 20 feet high pillar. “Then who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?” the gentleman asked. The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman and said: “I will know it.”

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

It is through action without attachment alone that Janaka and other wise men reached perfection.