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=What is Sincerity?=

Sincerity consists in making all the elements of the being, all the movements (whether outer or inner), all the parts of the being, all of them, have one single will to belong to the Divine, to live only for the Divine, to will only what the Divine wills, to express only the divine Will, to have no other source of energy than that of the Divine.

Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine Will.

Sincerity means to lift all the movements of the being to the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/sincerity#p6</ref>

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/sincerity#p2</ref>

Sincerity—what we call sincerity, that is to say honesty and transparency: that there may be nowhere in the being anything which pretends, hides or wants to pass itself off for what it is not. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/22-february-1956#p42</ref>

Sincerity means more than mere honesty. It means that you mean what you say, feel what you profess, are earnest in your will. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/sincerity#p5</ref>

To be sincere, all the parts of the being must be united in their aspiration for the Divine―not that one part wants and others refuse or revolt. To be sincere in the aspiration―to want the Divine for the Divine's sake, not for fame or name or prestige or power or any satisfaction of vanity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/sincerity#p7 </ref>

There are several degrees of sincerity.

And finally, if we go far enough, if we push the description far enough, so long as there is a part of the being which contradicts the central aspiration for the Divine, one is not perfectly sincere. That is to say, a perfect sincerity is something extremely rare. And most commonly, very very frequently, when there are things in one's nature which one does not like, one takes the greatest care to hide them from oneself, one finds favourable explanations or simply makes a little movement, like this (gesture). You have noticed that when things move like this you can't see them clearly. Well, where the defect is seated, there is a kind of vibrations which does this, and so your sight is not clear, you no longer see your defects. And this is automatic. Well, all these are insincerities.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/10-november-1954#p27,p28,p30</ref>

It must be sincere. If it is truly sincere, it becomes happy. So long as it is not—you may reverse the thing—so long as it is not happy, you may be sure it is not perfectly sincere; for if it is perfectly sincere, it is always happy. If it is not happy, it means that there is something which holds back, something which would like things to be otherwise, something that has a will of its own, a desire of its own, its own purpose and is not satisfied, and therefore is not completely surrendered, not sincere in its surrender. But if one is sincere in one's surrender, one is perfectly happy, automatically; rather, one automatically enjoys an ineffable happiness. Therefore, as long as this ineffable happiness is not there, it is a sure indication that you are not sincere, that there is something, some part of the being, larger or smaller, which is not sincere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/7-july-1954#p61</ref>

Aspiration and will to change are not so very far from each other, and if one has either, it is usually enough for going through,—provided of course it maintains itself. The opposition in certain parts of the being exists in every sadhak and can be very obstinate. Sincerity comes by having first the constant central aspiration or will, next, the honesty to see and avow the refusal in parts of the being, finally, the intention of seeing it through even there, however difficult it may be. You have admitted certain things changed in you, so you can no longer pretend that you have made no progress at all.

<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-difficulties-of-human-nature#p25</ref>

===Faith and Sincerity===