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Purity and Purification Compilation (view source)
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As is said in the Upanishads, our whole mind-consciousness is shot through with the threads and currents of this Prana, this Life-energy that strives and limits, grasps and misses, desires and suffers, and only by its purification can we know and possess our real and eternal self. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p4</ref>
= True Purity =
== Not Morality but Spiritual Purity ==
For example, if you take your stand on a moral viewpoint—which is itself altogether wrong from the spiritual point of view—there are people who apparently lead an altogether perfectly moral life, who conform to all the social laws, all the customs, the moral conventions, and who are a mass of impurity—from the spiritual point of view these beings are profoundly impure. On the other hand there are some poor people who do things... who are born, for instance, with a sense of freedom, and do things which are not considered very respectable from the social or moral point of view, and who can be in a state of inner aspiration and inner sincerity which makes them infinitely purer than the others. This is one of the big difficulties. As soon as one speaks of these things, there arises the deformation produced in the consciousness by all the social and moral conventions. As soon as you speak of purity, a moral monument comes in front of you which completely falsifies your notion. And note that it is infinitely easier to be moral from the social point of view than to be moral from the spiritual point of view. To be moral from the social viewpoint one has only to pay good attention to do nothing which is not approved of by others; this may be somewhat difficult, but still it is not impossible; and one may be, as I said, a monument of insincerity and impurity while doing this; whereas to be pure from the spiritual point of view means a vigilance, a consciousness, a sincerity that stand all tests. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-december-1954#p20</ref>
== Not Ascetic Purity ==
Once and for all it swept away not only all the ordinary notions of morality, but everything that is considered here in India as necessary for the spiritual life. From this point of view it was very instructive First of all this kind of so-called ascetic purity. Ascetic purity is simply the rejection of all vital movements; instead of taking up these movements and turning them towards the Divine, that is to say, instead of seeing the supreme Presence in them and letting the Supreme act freely on them, you tell Him, "No, that is not your concern." He is not allowed to interfere with them. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-69#p8</ref>
== Purity in Instruments ==
=== Mental Purity ===
Mental purity: a mirror which does not distort. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p11</ref>
Perfect mental purity: a spotless mirror constantly turned towards the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p12 </ref>
Integral mental purity: silent, attentive, receptive, concentrated on the Divine―this is the path to purity. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p13 </ref>
=== Vital Purity ===
Vital purity: it begins with the abolition of desire. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p14 </ref>
It is therefore no integral Yoga that kills these vital energies, forces them into a nerveless quiescence or roots them out as the source of noxious activities. Their purification, not their destruction,—their transformation, control and utilisation is the aim in view with which they have been created and developed in us. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-three-steps-of-nature#p6</ref>
The purification of the vital takes a long time because until all the parts are free, none is quite free and because they use a multitude of movements which have to be changed or enlightened,—and moreover there is a great habit of persistence and resistance in the habitual movements of the nature. One therefore easily thinks that one has made no progress, but all sincere and sustained effort of purification has its result and after a time the progress made will become evident. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p31</ref>
=== Purity in Cells ===
Light in the cells: the first step towards purity in the cells. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-body-the-physical#p19</ref>
Purity in the cells cannot be obtained except through conquest of desires; it is the true condition for good health. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-body-the-physical#p20</ref>
== Integral Purity ==
*Integral purity: the whole being is purified of the ego. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p9</ref>
*Power of integral purity: the power to accept nothing but the divine influence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p10</ref>
*The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. An integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ananda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ananda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-synthesis-of-the-systems#p19</ref>
== Divine Purity ==
The Divine Purity is a more wide and all-embracing experience than the psychic. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p15</ref>
Divine purity: it is happy just to be, in all simplicity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p16</ref>
For it should be said, surely, that purity as conceived on earth has nothing to do with divine purity. At the best it is an approximation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/14-april-1954#p19</ref>
It is like the word "purity"; one could hold forth interminably on the difference between divine purity and what people call purity. The divine purity, at the lowest, allows no influence other than the divine influence—at the lowest. But that is already very much distorted; the divine purity means that there is only the Divine, nothing else—it is perfectly pure, there is only the Divine, there is nothing other than Him. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-63-64-65#p31</ref>
We are the deforming intermediary between the purity of the animal and the divine purity of the gods. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/19-july-1958#p13</ref>
= Purity in Relation to other Qualities =