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= What is Purity? = Purity means freedom from soil or mixture. The divine Purity is that in which there is no mixture of the turbid ignorant movements of the lower nature. Ordinarily purity is used to mean (in the common language) freedom from vital passion and impulse. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p14 </ref> <center>~</center> This is purity, to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p2 </ref> <center>~</center> Sri Aurobindo does not use the word purity in the ordinary moral sense. For him, "purity" means "exclusively under the influence of the Divine", expressing only the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-282#p2 </ref> <center>~</center> To be pure, what does it mean? One is truly perfectly pure only when the whole being, in all its elements and all its movements, adheres fully, exclusively, to the divine Will. This indeed is total purity. It does not depend on any moral or social law, any mental convention of any kind. It depends exclusively on this: when all the elements and all the movements of the being adhere exclusively and totally to the divine Will. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-december-1954#p18 </ref> <center>~</center> ... man is a mental being, he must necessarily in the course of his evolution leave behind this unconscious and spontaneous purity, which is very similar to the purity of the animal, and after passing through an unavoidable period of mental perversion and impurity, rise beyond the mind into the higher and luminous purity of the divine consciousness. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-30#p6 </ref> <center>~</center> Purity or impurity depends upon the consciousness; in the divine consciousness everything is pure, in the ignorance everything is subject to impurity, not the body only or part of the body, but mind and vital and all. Only the self and the psychic being remain always pure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p16</ref> <center>~</center> Whatever may be the past, whatever may be the faults committed, whatever the ignorance in which one might have lived, one carries deep within oneself the supreme purity which can translate itself into a wonderful realisation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-flowers#p20</ref> '''Perfect Purity''' If one lives only for the Divine and by the Divine, there follows a perfect purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p5</ref> <center>~</center> Perfect purity is to be, to be ever more and more, in a self-perfecting becoming. One must never pretend that one is: one must be, spontaneously. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/12-june-1957#p11 </ref> <center>~</center> Purity is perfect sincerity and one cannot have it unless the being is entirely consecrated to the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p6</ref> <center>~</center> On earth, true purity is to think as the Divine thinks, to will as the Divine wills, to feel as the Divine feels. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p3 </ref> == How Purity is Different from == === Morality === 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> === 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> <center>~</center> Purity must be our aim, but not the purity of a void or of a bleak and rigid coldness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-master-of-the-work#p7</ref === Transformation === Purification of the nature by the "influence" of the Spirit is not what I mean by transformation; purification is only part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change—the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose. What I mean by the spiritual transformation is something dynamic (not merely liberation of the self, or realisation of the One which can very well be attained without any descent). It is a putting on of the spiritual consciousness dynamic as well as static in every part of the being down to the subconscient. That cannot be done by the influence of the Self leaving the consciousness fundamentally as it is with only purification, enlightenment of the mind and heart and quiescence of the vital. It means a bringing down of Divine Consciousness static and dynamic into all these parts and the entire replacement of the present consciousness by that. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/transformation-in-the-integral-yoga#p13</ref> == Purity in Instruments == === Mental Purity === Mental purity: a mirror which does not distort. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p11</ref> <center>~</center> Perfect mental purity: a spotless mirror constantly turned towards the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p12 </ref> <center>~</center> 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> <center>~</center> 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> <center>~</center> 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> <center>~</center> 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> <center>~</center> Power of integral purity: the power to accept nothing but the divine influence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p10</ref> <center>~</center> 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> <center>~</center> Divine purity: it is happy just to be, in all simplicity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p16</ref> <center>~</center> 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> <center>~</center> 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> <center>~</center> 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> == Buddhist's view == That was the wisdom of the Buddha who spoke of "the Middle Way": neither too much of this nor too much of that, neither falling into this nor falling into that—a little of everything and a balanced way... but ''pure''. Purity and sincerity are the same thing. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-103-104-105-106-107#p77 </ref> <center>~</center> So too the word "impurity". Pure, as it is understood morally, has not at all the meaning it is given in a truly spiritual teaching; and particularly from the Buddhist standpoint, purity is absence of ignorance, as I have already told you last time, and ignorance means ignoring the inner law, the truth of the being. And loyalty means not to take the illusion for the reality, the changing and fluctuating appearances for the inner and real permanence of the being. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p62 </ref> == Purity in Relation to other Qualities == ''' Perfection and Purity ''' It is only by a very persistent effort that one can succeed in overcoming his difficulties; and yet it seems impossible to cut oneself off completely from one's solidarity with the rest of the world. Therefore a perfect purity, a perfect perfection seem impossible so long as the world has not reached at least a certain degree of perfection. Even the ascetic, the solitary, who goes and sits in a cave or under a tree or in the jungle, cannot completely free himself from solidarity with the rest of the world. The air he breathes is full of all the vibrations of the world, the food he eats, whatever it may be, even if it is reduced to the minimum, contains the vibrations of the world; and so, it is enough for him to exist to be in solidarity with the difficulties of the world. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-december-1954#p5 </ref> ''' Aspiration and Purity ''' It is the most important for you. Particularly what you must aspire for is peace in all the being, complete equanimity, samata. The feeling that peace is not enough must go. Peace and purity and equanimity once established, all the rest must be the Mother's free gift, not a result of the demand from the being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p5</ref> ''' Sincerity and Purification''' Sincerity! Sincerity! How sweet is the purity of thy presence! <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/sincerity#p23 </ref> <center>~</center> There is, besides, a marvellous joy in being sincere. Every act of sincerity carries in itself its own reward: the feeling of purification, of soaring upwards, of liberation one gets when one has rejected even one tiny particle of falsehood. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-december-1956#p31</ref> ''' Concentration and Purity ''' Along with purity and as a help to bring it about, concentration. Purity and concentration are indeed two aspects, feminine and masculine, passive and active, of the same status of being; purity is the condition in which concentration becomes entire, rightly effective, omnipotent; by concentration purity does its works and without it would only lead to a state of peaceful quiescence and eternal repose. Their opposites are also closely connected; for we have seen that impurity is a confusion of dharmas, a lax, mixed and mutually entangled action of the different parts of the being; and this confusion proceeds from an absence of right concentration of its knowledge on its energies in the embodied Soul. The fault of our nature is first an inert subjection to the impacts of things as they come in upon the mind pell-mell without order or control and then a haphazard imperfect concentration managed fitfully, irregularly with a more or less chance emphasis on this or on that object according as they happen to interest, not the higher soul or the judging and discerning intellect, but the restless, leaping, fickle, easily tired, easily distracted lower mind which is the chief enemy of our progress. In such a condition purity, the right working of the functions, the clear, unstained and luminous order of the being is an impossibility; the various workings, given over to the chances of the environment and external influences, must necessarily run into each other and clog, divert, distract, pervert. Equally, without purity the complete, equal, flexible concentration of the being in right thought, right will, right feeling or secure status of spiritual experience is not possible. Therefore the two must proceed together, each helping the victory of the other, until we arrive at that eternal calm from which may proceed some partial image in the human being of the eternal, omnipotent and omniscient activity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/concentration#p1</ref> ''' Instinct and Purity ''' For the purity of which Sri Aurobindo speaks here is the purity of instinct, that obeys Nature's impulses spontaneously, never calculating, never questioning, never asking whether it is good or bad, whether what one does is right or wrong, whether it is a virtue or a sin, whether the outcome will be favourable or unfavourable. All these notions come into play when the mental ego makes its appearance and begins to take a dominant position in the consciousness and to veil the spontaneity of the soul. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-30#p4</ref> ''' Faith and Purity ''' At every moment all the unforeseen, the unexpected, the unknown is before us―and what happens to us depends mostly on the intensity and purity of our faith. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith#p19</ref> ''' Surrender and Purity ''' Detailed surrender means the surrender of all the details of life, even the smallest and the most insignificant in appearance. And this means to remember the Divine in all circumstances; whatever we think, feel or do, we must do it for Him as a way of coming close to Him, to be more and more what He wants us to be, capable of manifesting His will in perfect sincerity and purity, to be the instruments of His Love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/surrender#p7</ref> ''' Receptivity and Purity ''' If we call "perfect receptivity" the receptivity that receives only the Divine Influence and no other, it is certain—and at the same time it is perfect purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/27-november-1968#p2</ref> ''' Truth and Purity ''' When we are in the presence of hostile forces, only the purity of an absolute truth can conquer them. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/20-july-1935#p7</ref> ''' Peace and Purity ''' Peace and purity of the consciousness are the very foundation of the necessary change in the nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p1</ref> <center>~</center> Peace is necessary for all; without peace and an increasing purity, even if one opens, one cannot receive perfectly all that comes down through the opening. Light too is necessary for all—without light one cannot take full advantage of all that comes down. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p2</ref> == Path of Purity == Life is hard for the modest one who seeks purity, who is detached, unassuming and whose judgment is correct. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p12 </ref> <center>~</center> There was a third thing?... Yes, you must not cherish the illusion that if you want to follow the straight path, if you are modest, if you seek purity, if you are disinterested, if you want to lead a solitary existence and have a clear judgment, things will become easy.... It is quite the contrary! When you begin to advance towards inner and outer perfection, the difficulties start at the same time. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p29</ref> <center>~</center> Very often the earlier stage of the sadhana is successful, because there is an opening of the mind to first workings of the Force—afterwards the lower vital consciousness and the physical rise up and if these are not ready or inclined for the sadhana, it ceases. The sadhaka has first to purify and open them and call in the Force to work there and make all ready until he can bring the true consciousness and experience there. Yoga implies a long and difficult work and one must be ready to accept the necessity of years of preparation and purification and increasing consecration before the greater results can come. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p7</ref> === Dhammapada === "All conditioned things are impermanent." When one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered from sorrow. That is the Path of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-path#p5</ref> <center>~</center> "All conditioned things are subject to suffering." When one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered from sorrow. That is the Path of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-path#p6</ref> <center>~</center> "All things are insubstantial." When one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered from sorrow. That is the Path of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-path#p7</ref> = What is Impurity? = == Impurities due to Evolution == … there are two forms of impurity which are at the root of the whole confusion. One is a defect born of the nature of our past evolution, which has been a nature of separative ignorance; this defect is a radically wrong and ignorant form given to the proper action of each part of our instrumental being. The other impurity is born of the successive process of an evolution, where life emerges in and depends on body, mind emerges in and depends on life in the body, supermind emerges in and lends itself to instead of governing mind, soul itself is apparent only as a circumstance of the bodily life of the mental being and veils up the spirit in the lower imperfections. This second defect of our nature is caused by this dependence of the higher on the lower parts; it is an immixture of functions by which the impure working of the lower instrument gets into the characteristic action of the higher function and gives to it an added imperfection of embarrassment, wrong direction and confusion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p3</ref> == Ego == The ego seems to have been indispensable at one time for the formation of the individual consciousness, but with the ego were born all the obstacles, sufferings, difficulties, all that now appears to us as adverse and anti-divine forces. But these forces themselves were a necessity for attaining an inner purification and the liberation from ego. The ego is at once the result of their action and the cause of their prolongation. When the ego disappears, the adverse forces will also disappear, having no longer any reason for their existence in the world. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-fool#p20 </ref> <center>~</center> In human egoism and its satisfaction there can be no divine culmination and deliverance. A certain purification from egoism is the condition even of ethical progress and elevation, for social good and perfection; much more is it indispensable for inner peace, purity and joy. But a much more radical deliverance, not only from egoism but from ego-idea and ego-sense, is needed if our aim is to raise human into divine nature. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p2 </ref> == Insincerity == Now, there are stages, there are degrees. For example, insincerity, which is one of the greatest impurities, always arises from the fact that a movement or a set of movements, an element of the being or a number of elements, want to follow their own will and not be the expression of the divine Will. So this produces in the being either a revolt or a falsehood. I don't mean that one tells lies, but I mean that one is in a state of falsehood, of insincerity. And then, the consequences are more or less serious and more or less extensive according to the gravity of the movement itself and its importance. But these, if one sees from the point of view of purity, these are the real impurities. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-december-1954#p19 </ref> <center>~</center> It is obvious that in the purity of its essence, only that which is perfectly divine can feel that suffering; but partially, momentarily, like flashes of lightning behind the dark clouds of egoism, it appears in all who have a vast and generous heart. However, most often, in the individual consciousness it is mixed with that mean and petty self-pity which is the cause of depression and weakness. Nevertheless, when one is vigilant enough to refuse this mixture or at least to reduce it to a minimum, one soon realises that this divine compassion is based on a sublime and eternal joy which alone has the strength and the power to deliver the world from its ignorance and misery. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/5-february-1956#p5 </ref> == Hidden Impulses and Desires == There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within and sit upon them. But the more you think of a thing and say, "I don't want it, I don't want it", the more you are bound to it. What you should do is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice of it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, remain indifferent and unconcerned. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/14-april-1929#p6 </ref> <center>~</center>

~~Purity means freedom from soil or mixture. The divine Purity is~~ that ~~in which there~~ is ~~no mixture~~ an old blunder. Only a consciousness full of light can be pure. For instance, when you are conscious, your mind is clear and you have the ~~turbid ignorant movements~~ right ideas about things and people; your mind is pure of ignorance. But when the ~~lower nature. Ordinarily purity~~ mind is ~~used to mean (in the common language) freedom from vital passion~~ clouded by some impurity,—say, anger, jealousy or pride or some unreasonable desire,—you at once become ignorant and mistake and ~~impulse~~misunderstand everything. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#~~p14~~ p19 </ref~~></span~~>

~~Ignorance is~~ = Focus on Purity not a state of innocence or purity; that is an old blunder. Only a consciousness full of light can be pure. For instance, when you are conscious, your mind is clear and you have the right ideas about things and people; your mind is pure of ignorance. But when the mind is clouded by some impurity,—say, anger, jealousy or pride or some unreasonable desire,—you at once become ignorant and mistake and misunderstand everything. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p19 </ref>Impurity ==

~~All purification~~ Thinking too much about one's impurities does not help. It is a release, a delivery; for it is a throwing away of limiting, binding, obscuring imperfections and confusions: purification from desire brings the freedom of the psychic prana, purification from wrong emotions and troubling reactions the freedom of the heart, purification from better to keep the ~~obscuring limited~~ thought ~~of the sense mind the freedom of the intelligence, purification from mere intellectuality the freedom of~~ fixed on the ~~gnosis. But all this is an instrumental liberation. The freedom of the soul, mukti~~purity, ~~is of a larger~~ light and ~~more essential character; it is an opening out of mortal limitation into the illimitable immortality of the Spirit~~peace that one wants to acquire. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwsa~~cwm/2414/~~the~~mistakes-no-~~liberation~~torment-ofworry-~~the~~or-~~spirit~~sadness#p1 p5 </ref~~></span~~>

Perfect purity is to be, to be ever more and more, in a self-perfecting becoming. One must never pretend that one is: one must be, spontaneously. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/12-june-1957#p11 </refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~Purification—rejecting from~~ It is a mistake to dwell too much on the lower nature and its obstacles, which is the negative side of the sadhana. They have to be seen and purified, but preoccupation with them as the one important thing is not helpful. The positive side of experience of the descent is the more important thing. If one's waits for the lower nature to be purified entirely and for all time before calling down the positive experience, one might have to wait for ever. It is true that the more the lower nature is purified, the easier is ~~egoistic or~~ the descent of the ~~nature of rajasic desire~~higher Nature, but it is also and more true that the more the higher Nature descends, the more the lower is purified. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2930/~~purity~~the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p2 p35</ref~~></span~~>

~~This is purity, to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p2 </ref>~~= Disinterestedness ==

~~If one lives only~~ You must be good for the ~~Divine and by~~ love of goodness, you must be just for the ~~Divine~~love of justice, ~~there follows a perfect~~ you must be pure for the love of purityand you must be disinterested for the love of disinterestedness; then you are sure to advance on the way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1403/~~purity~~impurity#p5p32</ref~~></span~~>

On earth, true purity is to think as the Divine thinks, to will as the Divine wills, to feel as the Divine feels. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p3 </refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~Sri Aurobindo does not use the word~~ purity ~~in the ordinary moral sense. For him, "purity" means "exclusively under the influence of the Divine", expressing only the Divine~~and impurity depend on ourselves; no one can purify another. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1003/~~aphorism~~the-~~282~~ego#p2 p9</ref~~></span~~>

~~To be pure, what does it mean~~What is Purification? One is truly perfectly pure only when the whole being, in all its elements and all its movements, adheres fully, exclusively, to the divine Will. This indeed is total purity. It does not depend on any moral or social law, any mental convention of any kind. It depends exclusively on this: when all the elements and all the movements of the being adhere exclusively and totally to the divine Will. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-december-1954#p18 </ref>

~~And yet for the sake of completeness it should be added~~ Purification—rejecting from one's nature all that ~~because man~~ is ~~a mental being, he must necessarily in the course~~ egoistic or of ~~his evolution leave behind this unconscious and spontaneous purity, which is very similar to~~ the ~~purity~~ nature of ~~the animal, and after passing through an unavoidable period of mental perversion and impurity, rise beyond the mind into the higher and luminous purity of the divine consciousness~~rajasic desire. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1029/~~aphorism-30~~purity#p6 p2 </ref~~></span~~>

Purity is perfect sincerity and one cannot have it unless the being is entirely consecrated to the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p6</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~Purity or impurity depends upon the consciousness; in the divine consciousness everything is pure~~Thus purification, liberation, ~~in the ignorance everything is subject to impurity~~perfection, ~~not the body only or part~~ delight of being are four constituent elements of the ~~body~~Yoga,—śuddhi, mukti, siddhi, ~~but mind and vital and all. Only the self and the psychic being remain always pure~~bhukti. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/~~purity~~the-perfection-of-the-mental-being#~~p16~~p12 </ref~~></span~~>

~~== What does Buddhism say about Purity? ==~~<center>~</center>

That was the wisdom of the Buddha who spoke of "the Middle Way": neither too much of this nor too much of that, neither falling into this nor falling into that—a little of everything and An integral purification is a ~~balanced way... but pure. Purity~~ long and ~~sincerity are the same thing~~slow labour. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1017/~~aphorism~~21-~~103~~june-~~104-105-106-107~~1935#~~p77~~ p2</ref~~></span~~>

So too the word "impurity". Pure, as it is understood morally, has not at all the meaning it is given in a truly spiritual teaching; and particularly from the Buddhist standpoint, purity is absence of ignorance, as I have already told you last time, and ignorance means ignoring the inner law, the truth of the being. And loyalty means not to take the illusion for the reality, the changing and fluctuating appearances for the inner and real permanence of the being. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p62 </refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~= Object~~ All purification is a release, a delivery; for it is a throwing away of ~~Purity =~~limiting, binding, obscuring imperfections and confusions: purification from desire brings the freedom of the psychic prana, purification from wrong emotions and troubling reactions the freedom of the heart, purification from the obscuring limited thought of the sense mind the freedom of the intelligence, purification from mere intellectuality the freedom of the gnosis. But all this is an instrumental liberation. The freedom of the soul, mukti, is of a larger and more essential character; it is an opening out of mortal limitation into the illimitable immortality of the Spirit. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-liberation-of-the-spirit#p1 </ref>

<~~span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"~~center>The object of purification is to make the whole mental being a clear mirror in which the divine reality can be reflected, a clear vessel and an unobstructing channel into which the divine presence and through which the divine influence can be poured, a subtilised stuff which the divine nature can take possession of, new-shape and use to divine issues. For the mental being at present reflects only the confusions created by the mental and physical view of the world, is a channel only for the disorders of the ignorant lower nature and full of obstructions and impurities which prevent the higher from acting; therefore the whole shape of our being is deformed and imperfect, indocile to the highest influences and turned in its action to ignorant and inferior utilities. It reflects even the ~world falsely; it is incapable of reflecting the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p6 </ref></spancenter>

~~= Purity~~ The systematic purification of the whole being for an integral reflection and taking in ~~Relation~~ of the divine reality can only be done by the special methods of Yoga. Its absolute concentration has to ~~other Qualities =~~take the place of the dispersed concentrations of the lower knowledge; the vague and ineffective identification which is all the lower knowledge can bring, has to be replaced by the complete, intimate, imperative and living union which Yoga brings. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p9</ref>

~~== Knowledge and Purity ==~~<center>~</center>

~~For all this movement~~ ...you must add the Force of ~~knowledge~~ spiritual purification which ~~we are describing~~ is ~~a method~~ such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. If you have this Force at your disposal or if you can ask for it and get it, you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately, for if it happens to be in the midst of this Force it gets dissolved, it disappears; for no force of ~~purification~~ disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and ~~liberation whereby entire and final self-knowledge becomes~~ with it that also disappears. It can be changed into a constructive force, that is possible, ~~a progressive self-knowledge being itself~~ or it may be simply dissolved and reduced to nothing. And with that not only is the ~~instrument~~ illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the ~~purification and liberation~~illness once for all, it never comes back. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwsa~~cwm/2305/~~the-release-from-the-heart-and~~22-~~the~~july-~~mind~~1953#p9p62</ref~~></span~~>

== ''' Purification before Perfection ~~and Purity ==~~'''

As you pursue this labour of purification and unification, you must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of your beingThe world will be made better only in proportion as we make ourselves better. ~~When~~ The Vedantic truth that the ~~higher truth manifests,~~ world is only a projection—a function—of our consciousness is as pragmatically true as it ~~must find in you a mind~~ is spiritually true. The ills that ~~is supple~~ humanity suffers from—collectively and ~~rich enough to be able to give~~ individually—stem from the ~~idea~~ errors that ~~seeks to express itself a form~~ lie at the roots of ~~thought which preserves its force and clarity~~our ignorant nature. ~~This thought, again, when it seeks~~ We must be cleansed of these evils—individually first of all—if we ever hope to ~~clothe itself in words, must find in you~~ see a ~~sufficient power of expression so that the words reveal the thought and do not deform it~~clean world outside. ~~And the formula in which you embody the truth should be manifested in all your feelings, all your acts~~ A yoga of ~~will, all your actions, in all~~ self-purification is the ~~movements~~ condition precedent to a yoga of ~~your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest~~ perfection. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1214/~~the~~helping-~~science~~others-ofand-the-~~living~~world#p6 p23</ref~~></span~~>

It is only by a very persistent effort that one can succeed in overcoming his difficulties; and yet it seems impossible to cut oneself off completely from one's solidarity with the rest of the world. Therefore a perfect purity, a perfect perfection seem impossible so long as the world has not reached at least a certain degree of perfection. Even the ascetic, the solitary, who goes and sits in a cave or under a tree or in the jungle, cannot completely free himself from solidarity with the rest of the world. The air he breathes is full of all the vibrations of the world, the food he eats, whatever it may be, even if it is reduced to the minimum, contains the vibrations of the world; and so, it is enough '' Aspiration for ~~him to exist to be in solidarity with the difficulties of the world. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-december-1954#p5 </ref>~~Purification '''

If there is to be an active perfection of our being, the first necessity is a purification of the working of the instruments which it now uses for a music of discords. The being itself, the spirit, the divine Reality in man stands in no need of purification; it is for ever pure, not affected by the faults of its instrumentation or the stumblings of mind and heart and body in their work, as the sun, says the Upanishad, is not touched or stained by the faults of the eye of vision. Mind, heart, the soul of vital desire, the life in the body are the seats of impurity; it is they that aspiration must be set right if the working of the spirit is to be a perfect working and not marked by its present greater or less concession to the devious pleasure of the lower nature. What is ordinarily called purity of the being, is either a negative whiteness, a freedom from sin gained by a constant inhibition of whatever action, feeling, idea or will we think to be wrong, or else, the highest negative or passive purity, the for entire God-content, inaction, the complete stilling of the vibrant mind and the soul of desire, which in quietistic disciplines leads to a supreme peace; for then the spirit appears in all the eternal purity of its immaculate essence. That gained, there would be nothing farther to be enjoyed or done. But here we have the more difficult problem of a total, unabated, even an increased and more powerful action founded on perfect bliss of the being, the purity of the soul's instrumental as well as the spirit's essential nature. Mind, heart, life, body are to do the works of the Divine, all the works which they do now and yet more, but to do them divinely, as now they do not do them. This is the first appearance of the problem before him on which the seeker of perfection has to lay hold, that it is not a negative, prohibitory, passive or quietistic, but a positive, affirmative, active purity which is his object. A divine quietism discovers the immaculate eternity of the Spirit, a divine kinetism adds to it the right pure undeviating action of the soulpurification, ~~mind and body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p1</ref>~~especially

~~Moreover, it is a total~~ *purification ~~of all the complex instrumentality in all the parts of each instrument that is demanded of us by the integral perfection. It is not~~from sex, ultimately, the narrower moral purification of the ethical nature. Ethics deals only with the desire-soul and the active outward dynamical part of our being; its field is confined to character and action. It prohibits and inhibits certain actions, certain desires, impulses, propensities,—it inculcates certain qualities in the act, such as truthfulness, love, charity, compassion, chastity. When it has got this done and assured a base of virtue, the possession of a purified will and blameless habit of action, its work is finished. But the Siddha of the integral perfection has to dwell in a larger plane of the Spirit's eternal purity beyond good and evil… it is meant so that the Siddha of the active integral perfection will live dynamically in the working of the transcendent power of the divine Spirit as a universal will through the supermind individualised in him for action. His works will therefore be the works of an eternal Knowledge, an eternal Truth, an eternal Might, an eternal Love, an eternal Ananda; but the truth, knowledge, force, love, delight will be the whole essential spirit of whatever work he will do and will not depend on its form; they will determine his action from the spirit within and the action will not determine the spirit or subject it to a fixed standard or rigid mould of working. He will have no dominant mere habit of character, but only a spiritual being and will with at the most a free and flexible temperamental mould for the action. His life will be a direct stream from the eternal fountains, not a form cut to some temporary human pattern. His perfection will not be a sattwic purity, but a thing uplifted beyond the gunas of Nature, a perfection of spiritual knowledge, spiritual power, spiritual delight, unity sex imaginations may enter and ~~harmony of unity;~~ the outward perfection of his works will be freely shaped as the self-expression of this inner spiritual transcendence and universality. For this change he must make conscient in him that power of spirit and supermind which is now superconscient to our mentality. But that cannot work in him so long as his present mental, vitalsex impulse may cease, ~~physical being is not liberated from its actual inferior working. This purification is the first necessity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p2</ref>~~

~~In other words,~~ *purification must not be understood in any limited sense of a selection of certain outward kinetic movements, their regulation, the inhibition of other action or a liberation of certain forms of character or particular mental and moral capacities. These things are secondary signs of our derivative being, not essential powers and first forces. We have to take a wider psychological view of the primary forces of our nature. We have to distinguish the formed parts of our being, find out their basic defect of impurity or wrong action from desires and ~~correct that, sure that the rest will then come right naturally. We have not to doctor symptoms of impurity, or that only secondarily, as a minor help~~demands, ~~but to strike at its roots after a deeper diagnosis. W~~

~~== Aspiration~~ *purification from depression which is the result of disappointed desires.It is the most important for you. Particularly what you must aspire for is peace in all the being, complete equanimity, samata. The feeling that peace is not enough must go. Peace and ~~Purity ==~~purity and equanimity once established, all the rest must be the Mother’s free gift, not a result of the demand from the being.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p5</ref>

~~The aspiration must be for entire purification, especially ~~= Object of Purification ==

~~<span style="background~~The object of purification is to make the whole mental being a clear mirror in which the divine reality can be reflected, a clear vessel and an unobstructing channel into which the divine presence and through which the divine influence can be poured, a subtilised stuff which the divine nature can take possession of, new-~~color:transparent~~shape and use to divine issues. For the mental being at present reflects only the confusions created by the mental and physical view of the world, is a channel only for the disorders of the ignorant lower nature and full of obstructions and impurities which prevent the higher from acting;~~color:#000000~~therefore the whole shape of our being is deformed and imperfect, indocile to the highest influences and turned in its action to ignorant and inferior utilities. It reflects even the world falsely;"it is incapable of reflecting the Divine. <ref>~~(1) purification from sex, so that no sex imaginations may enter~~ http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and -the ~~sex impulse may cease,~~ -lower-knowledge#p6 </~~span~~ref>

<~~span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"~~center>~~(2) purification from desires and demands,~~ ~</~~span~~center>

~~(3)~~ A certain amount of purification ~~from depression which~~ is necessary before there can be any realisation of the Divine and that is what has been going on in you. It is after all not a very long time since the ~~result of disappointed desires~~real purification began and it is never an easy work. So the impatience may be natural, but it is not exactly reasonable. <ref>http://incarnateword. in/cwsa/29/purity#p1</~~span~~ref>

It is the most important for you. Particularly what you must aspire for is peace in all the being, complete equanimity, samata. The feeling that peace is not enough must go. Peace and purity and equanimity once established, all the rest must be the Mother's free gift, not a result of the demand from the being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p5</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~== Sincerity~~ As is said in the Upanishads, our whole mind-consciousness is shot through with the threads and ~~Purification ==~~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>

~~Sincerity! Sincerity! How sweet~~ Why Purification is ~~the purity of thy presence! <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/sincerity#p23 </ref>~~Important? =

~~There is, besides~~No protection, ~~a marvellous joy in being sincere. Every act of sincerity carries in itself its own reward:~~ no Grace can save those who refuse the ~~feeling of~~ indispensable purification~~, of soaring upwards, of liberation one gets when one has rejected even one tiny particle of falsehood~~. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/1915-~~december~~august-1956#~~p31~~p6</ref~~></span~~>

~~== Love~~ With the inner liberation, with a total sincerity and ~~Purity ==~~perfect purity, all suffering will disappear, because it will no longer be necessary for the progress of the consciousness towards its final goal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-fool#p21</ref>

In this way it is not necessary to introduce the principle of love into the explanation. But if you want to know or understand the nature of the Force or the Power that enables or brings about this transformation—particularly where evil is concerned, but also with ugliness to a certain extent—you see that love is obviously the most potent and integral of all powers—integral in the sense that it applies in all cases. It is even more powerful than the power of purification which dissolves all bad will and which is, as it were, the master of the adverse forces, but which has not the direct power of transformation. The power of purification first dissolves in order to allow the transformation afterwards. It destroys one form in order to be able to create a better one, whereas love need not dissolve in order to transform; it possesses the direct power of transformation. Love is like a flame that changes what is hard into something malleable and even sublimates this malleable thing into a kind of purified vapour—it does not destroy, it transforms. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p12 </ref>== Beauty ===

~~The love that one contains in silence acts within oneself for~~ Pure sense of beauty can be acquired only through a great purification and transformation. The love that one turns outwards—if one does it in a pure and disinterested way—may occasionally help others. But most often they receive it wrongly... So you must do as your instinct guides you. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1715/~~24-july-1934~~beauty#p3p14</ref~~></span~~>

~~== Concentration~~ The preoccupation with universal beauty even in its aesthetic forms has an intense power for refining and ~~Purity ==~~subtilising the nature, and at its highest it is a great force for purification. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p8</ref>

Along with purity and as a help to bring it about, concentration. Purity and concentration are indeed two aspects, feminine and masculine, passive and active, of the same status of being; purity is the condition in which concentration becomes entire, rightly effective, omnipotent; by concentration purity does its works and without it would only lead to a state of peaceful quiescence and eternal repose. Their opposites are also closely connected; for we have seen that impurity is a confusion of dharmas, a lax, mixed and mutually entangled action of the different parts of the being; and this confusion proceeds from an absence of right concentration of its knowledge on its energies in the embodied Soul. The fault of our nature is first an inert subjection to the impacts of things as they come in upon the mind pell-mell without order or control and then a haphazard imperfect concentration managed fitfully, irregularly with a more or less chance emphasis on this or on that object according as they happen to interest, not the higher soul or the judging and discerning intellect, but the restless, leaping, fickle, easily tired, easily distracted lower mind which is the chief enemy of our progress. In such a condition purity, the right working of the functions, the clear, unstained and luminous order of the being is an impossibility; the various workings, given over to the chances of the environment and external influences, must necessarily run into each other and clog, divert, distract, pervert. Equally, without purity the complete, equal, flexible concentration of the being in right thought, right will, right feeling or secure status of spiritual experience is not possible. Therefore the two must proceed together, each helping the victory of the other, until we arrive at that eternal calm from which may proceed some partial image in the human being of the eternal, omnipotent and omniscient activity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/concentration#p1</ref>== Calm ===

~~== Instinct~~ Purification and ~~Purity ==~~calm are the first needs in the Yoga. One may have a great wealth of experiences of that kind (worlds, visions, voices etc.) without them, but these experiences occurring in an unpurified and troubled consciousness are usually full of disorder and mixture. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p50</ref>

For the purity of which Sri Aurobindo speaks here is the purity of instinct, that obeys Nature's impulses spontaneously, never calculating, never questioning, never asking whether it is good or bad, whether what one does is right or wrong, whether it is a virtue or a sin, whether the outcome will be favourable or unfavourable. All these notions come into play when the mental ego makes its appearance and begins to take a dominant position in the consciousness and to veil the spontaneity of the soul. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-30#p4</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~== Faith~~ In your nature there are many obstacles, chiefly a great activity of the outward-going mind and ~~Purity ==~~a thick crust of the impure lower Prakriti that covers the heart and the vital being. Quieting of the mind and purification of the nature are what you must have before you can fulfil your aim. Aspire for these two things first; ask for them constantly from above. You will not be able to achieve them by your own unaided effort. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p9</ref>

At every moment all the unforeseen, the unexpected, the unknown is before us―and what happens to us depends mostly on the intensity and purity of our faith. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith#p19</ref>== Perfection ===

~~== Surrender~~ As you pursue this labour of purification and ~~Purity ==~~unification, you must at the same time take great care to perfect the external and instrumental part of your being. When the higher truth manifests, it must find in you a mind that is supple and rich enough to be able to give the idea that seeks to express itself a form of thought which preserves its force and clarity. This thought, again, when it seeks to clothe itself in words, must find in you a sufficient power of expression so that the words reveal the thought and do not deform it. And the formula in which you embody the truth should be manifested in all your feelings, all your acts of will, all your actions, in all the movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-science-of-living#p6 </ref>

Detailed surrender means the surrender of all the details of life, even the smallest and the most insignificant in appearance. And this means to remember the Divine in all circumstances; whatever we think, feel or do, we must do it for Him as a way of coming close to Him, to be more and more what He wants us to be, capable of manifesting His will in perfect sincerity and purity, to be the instruments of His Love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/surrender#p7</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~There are two possibilities~~If there is to be an active perfection of our being, ~~one~~ the first necessity is a purification of the working of the instruments which it now uses for a music of discords. The being itself, the spirit, the divine Reality in man stands in no need of purification ; it is for ever pure, not affected by ~~personal effort~~the faults of its instrumentation or the stumblings of mind and heart and body in their work, as the sun, ~~which takes a long time~~says the Upanishad, ~~another~~ is not touched or stained by ~~a direct intervention~~ the faults of the eye of vision. Mind, heart, the soul of vital desire, the ~~Divine Grace which is usually rapid~~ life in ~~its action. For~~ the ~~latter there~~ body are the seats of impurity; it is they that must be set right if the working of the spirit is to be a ~~complete surrender~~ perfect working and ~~self-giving and for that again usually it~~ not marked by its present greater or less concession to the devious pleasure of the lower nature. What is ordinarily called purity of the being, is ~~necessary~~ either a negative whiteness, a freedom from sin gained by a constant inhibition of whatever action, feeling, idea or will we think to ~~have a~~ be wrong, or else, the highest negative or passive purity, the entire God-content, inaction, the complete stilling of the vibrant mind ~~that can remain quite quiet~~ and ~~allow~~ the ~~Divine Force~~ soul of desire, which in quietistic disciplines leads to ~~act supporting it with~~ a supreme peace; for then the spirit appears in all the eternal purity of its ~~complete adhesion at every step~~immaculate essence. That gained, ~~but otherwise remaining still and quiet~~there would be nothing farther to be enjoyed or done. ~~This last condition which resembles~~ But here we have the ~~baby cat attitude spoken~~ more difficult problem of ~~by Ramakrishna~~a total, unabated, even an increased and more powerful action founded on perfect bliss of the being, ~~is difficult to have~~the purity of the soul's instrumental as well as the spirit's essential nature. ~~Those who~~ Mind, heart, life, body are ~~accustomed~~ to ~~a very active movement~~ do the works of ~~their thought and will in~~ the Divine, all the works which they donow and yet more, ~~find it difficult~~ but to ~~still~~ do them divinely, as now they do not do them. This is the first appearance of the ~~activity and adopt~~ problem before him on which the ~~quietude~~ seeker of ~~mental self-giving. This does~~ perfection has to lay hold, that it is not ~~mean that they cannot do the Yoga~~ a negative, prohibitory, passive or ~~cannot arrive at self-giving—only~~ quietistic, but a positive, affirmative, active purity which is his object. A divine quietism discovers the ~~purification and~~ immaculate eternity of the ~~self-giving take~~ Spirit, a ~~long time~~ divine kinetism adds to ~~accomplish and one must have~~ it the right pure undeviating action of the ~~patience and steady perseverance~~ soul, mind and ~~resolution to go through~~body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/~~surrender~~the-instruments-of-the-spirit#~~p78~~p1</ref~~></span~~>

~~== Beauty and Purity ==~~<center>~</center>

~~<span style="background~~Moreover, it is a total purification of all the complex instrumentality in all the parts of each instrument that is demanded of us by the integral perfection. It is not, ultimately, the narrower moral purification of the ethical nature. Ethics deals only with the desire-~~color:transparent~~soul and the active outward dynamical part of our being; its field is confined to character and action. It prohibits and inhibits certain actions, certain desires, impulses, propensities,—it inculcates certain qualities in the act, such as truthfulness, love, charity, compassion, chastity. When it has got this done and assured a base of virtue, the possession of a purified will and blameless habit of action, its work is finished. But the Siddha of the integral perfection has to dwell in a larger plane of the Spirit's eternal purity beyond good and evil… it is meant that the Siddha of the active integral perfection will live dynamically in the working of the transcendent power of the divine Spirit as a universal will through the supermind individualised in him for action. His works will therefore be the works of an eternal Knowledge, an eternal Truth, an eternal Might, an eternal Love, an eternal Ananda;~~color:#000000~~but the truth, knowledge, force, love, delight will be the whole essential spirit of whatever work he will do and will not depend on its form;~~">Pure sense~~ they will determine his action from the spirit within and the action will not determine the spirit or subject it to a fixed standard or rigid mould of working. He will have no dominant mere habit of ~~beauty can~~ character, but only a spiritual being and will with at the most a free and flexible temperamental mould for the action. His life will be ~~acquired only through~~ a ~~great~~ direct stream from the eternal fountains, not a form cut to some temporary human pattern. His perfection will not be a sattwic purity, but a thing uplifted beyond the gunas of Nature, a perfection of spiritual knowledge, spiritual power, spiritual delight, unity and harmony of unity; the outward perfection of his works will be freely shaped as the self-expression of this inner spiritual transcendence and universality. For this change he must make conscient in him that power of spirit and supermind which is now superconscient to our mentality. But that cannot work in him so long as his present mental, vital, physical being is not liberated from its actual inferior working. This purificationis the first necessity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1524/~~beauty~~the-instruments-of-the-spirit#~~p14~~p2</ref~~></span~~>

The preoccupation with universal beauty even in its aesthetic forms has an intense power for refining and subtilising the nature, and at its highest it is a great force for purification. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p8</ref>== Manifestation ===

~~== Receptivity~~ Neither the complete purification nor the permanent and ~~Purity ==~~perfect manifestation can come all at once, it is a matter of time and patient progress. The two (purification and manifestation) go on progressing side by side and become more and more strong to play into each other's hands—that is the usual course of the sadhana. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p35</ref>

If we call "perfect receptivity" the receptivity that receives only the Divine Influence and no other, it is certain—and at the same time it is perfect purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/27-november-1968#p2</ref>== Knowledge ===

~~== Truth~~ For all this movement of knowledge which we are describing is a method of purification and ~~Purity ==~~liberation whereby entire and final self-knowledge becomes possible, a progressive self-knowledge being itself the instrument of the purification and liberation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p9</ref>

When we are in the presence of hostile forces, only the purity of an absolute truth can conquer them. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/20-july-1935#p7</ref>What to Purify and How? =

~~== Calm~~ In other words, purification must not be understood in any limited sense of a selection of certain outward kinetic movements, their regulation, the inhibition of other action or a liberation of certain forms of character or particular mental and ~~Purity ==~~moral capacities. These things are secondary signs of our derivative being, not essential powers and first forces. We have to take a wider psychological view of the primary forces of our nature. We have to distinguish the formed parts of our being, find out their basic defect of impurity or wrong action and correct that, sure that the rest will then come right naturally. We have not to doctor symptoms of impurity, or that only secondarily, as a minor help, but to strike at its roots after a deeper diagnosis. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p2</ref>

Purification and calm are the first needs in the Yoga. One may have a great wealth of experiences of that kind (worlds, visions, voices etc.) without them, but these experiences occurring in an unpurified and troubled consciousness are usually full of disorder and mixture. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p50</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~~~... the main need is a certain preparation of the consciousness so that it may be able to respond more and more freely to the higher Force. In ~~your nature there~~ this preparation many things are ~~many obstacles~~useful—the poetry and music you are doing can help, ~~chiefly~~ for it acts as a ~~great activity~~ sort of śravaṇa and manana, even, if the ~~outward-going mind and~~ feeling roused is intense, a ~~thick crust~~ sort of natural nididhyāsana. Psychic preparation, clearing out of the ~~impure lower Prakriti that covers the heart~~ grosser forms of mental and ~~the~~ vital ~~being. Quieting of the~~ ego, opening mind and ~~purification of~~ heart to the ~~nature are what you must have before you can fulfil your aim. Aspire for these two~~ Guru and many other things ~~first; ask for them constantly~~ help greatly—it is not perfection or a complete freedom from ~~above. You will not be able to achieve them by your own unaided effort~~the dualities or ego that is the indispensable preliminary, but preparedness, a fineness of the inner being which makes spiritual responses and receiving possible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2930/~~purity~~the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p9p37</ref~~></span~~>

== ~~Peace and Purity~~ Purification of Understanding ==

~~<span style="background-color:transparent~~The first necessity of preparation is the purifying of all the members of our being;~~color:#000000~~especially, for the path of knowledge, the purification of the understanding, the key that shall open the door of Truth;~~">Peace~~ and ~~purity of~~ a purified understanding is hardly possible without the ~~consciousness are the very foundation~~ purification of the ~~necessary change in~~ other members. An unpurified heart, an unpurified sense, an unpurified life confuse the ~~nature~~understanding, disturb its data, distort its conclusions, darken its seeing, misapply its knowledge; an unpurified physical system clogs or chokes up its action. There must be an integral purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/~~peace-~~the-~~basis-of-the~~purified-~~sadhana~~understanding#p1p3</ref~~></span~~>

Peace is necessary for all; without peace and an increasing purity, even if one opens, one cannot receive perfectly all that comes down through the opening. Light too is necessary for all—without light one cannot take full advantage of all that comes down. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p2</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~== Manifestation~~ By the understanding we mean that which at once perceives, judges and ~~Purity ==~~discriminates, the true reason of the human being not subservient to the senses, to desire or to the blind force of habit, but working in its own right for mastery, for knowledge. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p5</ref>

~~Neither the complete purification nor the permanent~~ == Causes and ~~perfect manifestation can come all at once, it is a matter~~ Remedy of time and patient progress. The two (purification and manifestation) go on progressing side by side and become more and more strong to play into each other's hands—that is the usual course of the sadhana. <ref>http://incarnateword.Impurity in~~/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p35</ref>~~Understanding ===

~~== Transformation~~ '''''Intermiscence of Desire''''' - The ﬁrst cause of impurity in the understanding is the intermiscence of desire in the thinking functions, and ~~Purity ==~~desire itself is an impurity of the Will involved in the vital and emotional parts of our being. When the vital and emotional desires interfere with the pure will-to-know, the thought-function becomes subservient to them, pursues ends other than those proper to itself and its perceptions are clogged and deranged. The understanding must lift itself beyond the siege of desire and emotion and, in order that it may have perfect immunity, it must get the vital parts and the emotions themselves puriﬁed.

~~Purification of the nature by the "influence" of the Spirit~~ The will to enjoy is not what I mean by transformation; purification is only part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change—the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign proper to ~~my purpose. What I mean by~~ the ~~spiritual transformation is something dynamic (~~vital being but not ~~merely liberation of~~ the ~~self,~~ choice or ~~realisation of~~ the ~~One~~ reaching after the enjoyment which ~~can very well~~ must be ~~attained without any descent). It is a putting on of the spiritual consciousness dynamic as well as static in every part of~~ determined and acquired by higher functions; therefore the vital being ~~down~~ must be trained to accept whatever gain or enjoyment comes to it in the ~~subconscient. That cannot be done by the influence~~ right functioning of the ~~Self leaving~~ life in obedience to the ~~consciousness fundamentally as it is with only purification, enlightenment~~ working of the ~~mind~~ divine Will and ~~heart and quiescence of the vital. It means a bringing down~~ to rid itself of ~~Divine Consciousness static and dynamic into all these parts~~ craving and ~~the entire replacement of the present consciousness by that. <ref>http://incarnateword~~attachment.~~in/cwsa/29/transformation-in-the-integral-yoga#p13</ref>~~

~~= Outcome~~ Similarly the heart must be freed from subjection to the cravings of ~~Purity =~~the life principle and the senses and thus rid itself of the false emotions of fear, wrath, hatred, lust, etc. which constitute the chief impurity of the heart. The will to love is proper to the heart, but here also the choice and reaching after love have to be foregone or tranquillised and the heart taught to love with depth and intensity indeed, but with a calm depth and a settled and equal, not a troubled and disordered intensity.The tranquillisation and mastery (sama and dama) of these members is a ﬁrst condition for the immunity of the understanding from error, ignorance and perversion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p9</ref>

~~With~~ mind''''' - The second cause of impurity in the understanding is the ~~inner liberation, with a total sincerity~~ illusion of the senses and ~~perfect purity, all suffering will disappear, because it will no longer be necessary for~~ the ~~progress~~ intermiscence of the ~~consciousness towards its final goal~~sense-mind in the thinking functions. ~~<ref>http://incarnateword~~No knowledge can be true knowledge which subjects itself to the senses or uses them otherwise than as ﬁrst indices whose data have constantly to be corrected and overpassed.~~in/cwm/03/the-fool#p21</ref>~~

~~= Why Purity? =~~…the beginning of philosophy is the examination of the principles of things which the senses mistranslate to us; the beginning of spiritual knowledge is the refusal to accept the limitations of the sense-life or to take the visible and sensible as anything more than phenomenon of the Reality. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p10</ref>

A certain amount of purification is necessary before there can be any realisation of the Divine and that is what has been going on in you. It is after all not a very long time since the real purification began and it is never an easy work. So the impatience may be natural, but it is not exactly reasonable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p1</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~You must~~ mind be ~~good for~~ stilled and taught to leave the ~~love~~ function of ~~goodness, you must be just for~~ thought to the mind that judges and understands. When the understanding in us stands back from the ~~love~~ action of ~~justice~~the sense-mind and repels its intermiscence, ~~you must be pure for~~ the ~~love of purity~~ latter detaches itself from the understanding and ~~you must~~ can be ~~disinterested for the love~~ watched in its separate action. It then reveals itself as a constantly swirling and eddying undercurrent of habitual concepts, associations, perceptions, desires without any real sequence, order or principle of ~~disinterestedness; then you are sure to advance on the way~~light. ~~<ref>http://incarnateword~~It is a constant repetition in a circle unintelligent and unfruitful.~~in/cwm/03/impurity#p32</ref>~~

~~= Where~~ There is ~~Purity? =~~nothing to be done with this fickle, restless, violent and disturbing factor but to get rid of it whether by detaching it and then reducing it to stillness or by giving a concentration and singleness to the thought by which it will of itself reject this alien and confusing element. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified- understanding#p11</ref>

The purification of the heart is the central necessity, but a purification of the mind, vital and physical is also called for. But the most important thing for purification of the heart is an absolute sincerity. No pretence with oneself, no concealment from the Divine or oneself or the Guru, a straight look at one's nature and one's movements, a straight will to make them straight. It does not so much matter if it takes time; one must be prepared to make it one's whole life-task to seek the Divine. Purifying the heart means after all a pretty considerable achievement and it is no use getting despondent, despairful etc. because one finds things in oneself that still need to be changed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p42</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~Whatever may be~~ A third cause of impurity has its source in the ~~past~~understanding itself and consists in an improper action of the will to know. That will is proper to the understanding, ~~whatever may be~~ but here again choice and unequal reaching after knowledge clog and distort. They lead to a partiality and attachment which makes the ~~faults committed~~intellect cling to certain ideas and opinions with a more or less obstinate will to ignore the truth in other ideas and opinions, ~~whatever~~ cling to certain fragments of a truth and shy against the ~~ignorance in~~ admission of other parts which ~~one might have lived~~are yet necessary to its fullness, ~~one carries deep within oneself~~ cling to certain predilections of knowledge and repel all knowledge that does not agree with the ~~supreme purity~~ personal temperament of thought which ~~can translate itself into a wonderful realisation. <ref>http://incarnateword~~has been acquired by the past of the thinker.~~in/cwm/03/the-flowers#p20</ref>~~

~~These adverse forces are connected with sexual desire. They live on~~ The remedy lies in a perfect equality of the ~~energy wasted when~~ mind, in the ~~act takes place~~cultivation of an entire intellectual rectitude and in the perfection of mental disinterestedness. ~~And even a thought~~The purified understanding as it will not lend itself to any desire or craving, ~~a mental~~ so will not lend itself either to any predilection or distaste for any particular idea or ~~vital desire~~ truth, and will refuse to be attached even to those ideas of which it is ~~sufficient~~ the most certain or to ~~let~~ lay on them ~~come in and settle in the atmosphere. Thus it~~ such an undue stress as is in likely to disturb the ~~mind itself that~~ balance of truth and depreciate the ~~purification must take place~~values of other elements of a complete and perfect knowledge. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1523/~~adverse~~the-~~forces~~purified-understanding#~~p20~~p12</ref~~></span~~>

~~= How to Purify? =~~<center>~</center>

~~To rid the prana of desire~~ An understanding thus purified would be a perfectly flexible, entire and ~~incidentally to reverse the ordinary poise~~ faultless instrument of ~~our nature~~ intellectual thought and ~~turn the vital~~ being free from ~~a troublesomely dominant power into~~ the ~~obedient instrument~~ inferior sources of obstruction and distortion would be capable of as true and complete a ~~free and unattached mind, is then the first step in purification. As this deformation~~ perception of the ~~psychical prana is corrected, the purification~~ truths of the ~~rest of~~ Self and the ~~intermediary parts of~~ universe as the ~~antaḥkaraṇa is facilitated, and when that correction is completed, their purification too~~ intellect can ~~be easily made absolute~~attain. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/~~purification-~~the-~~lower~~purified-~~mentality~~understanding#p7p13</ref~~></span~~>

~~The systematic purification~~ = Purification of the whole being for an integral reflection and taking in of the divine reality can only be done by the special methods of Yoga. Its absolute concentration has to take the place of the dispersed concentrations of the lower knowledge; the vague and ineffective identification which is all the lower knowledge can bring, has to be replaced by the complete, intimate, imperative and living union which Yoga brings. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p9</ref>Heart ==

~~It is the inner offering~~ The purification of the heart~~'s adoration, the soul of it in the symbol, the spirit of it in the act, that~~ is the ~~very life of the sacrifice. If this offering is to be complete and universal~~central necessity, ~~then~~ but a ~~turning~~ purification of ~~all our emotions to~~ the ~~Divine is imperative. This is the intensest way of purification for the human heart~~mind, ~~more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power~~ vital and ~~superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must be lit into which all~~ physical is ~~thrown with the Divine Name upon it~~also called for. ~~In that fire all~~ But the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out most important thing for purification of the ~~flame and smoke and frankincense. It~~ heart is ~~the divine love which so emerges that, extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man and all creatures in~~ an ~~active universal equality, will be more potent for the perfectibility of life and a more real instrument than the ineffective mental ideal of brotherhood can ever be~~absolute sincerity. It is this poured out into acts that could alone create a harmony in the world and a true unity between all its creatures; all else strives in vain towards that end so long as Divine Love has not disclosed itself as the heart of the delivered manifestation in terrestrial Nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p14</ref>

~~It has been seen that a most effective way of purification is for~~ *No pretence with oneself *No concealment from the ~~mental Purusha to draw back, to stand as~~ Divine or oneself or the ~~passive witness and observe and know himself~~ Guru*A straight look at one's nature and ~~the workings of Nature in the lower, the normal being; but this must be combined, for perfection, with a~~ one's movements*A straight will to ~~raise the purified nature into the higher spiritual being. <ref>http://incarnateword~~make them straight.~~in/cwsa/24/the-action-of-the-divine-shakti#p7</ref>~~

~~...you~~ one must ~~add the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that~~be prepared to make it one's in whole life-task to seek the ~~least destructive can survive there~~Divine. ~~If you have this Force at your disposal or if you can ask for it~~ Purifying the heart means after all a pretty considerable achievement and ~~get~~ itis no use getting despondent, ~~you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately, for if it happens to be~~ despairful etc. because one finds things in the midst of this Force it gets dissolved, it disappears; for no force of disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and with it oneself that ~~also disappears. It can~~ still need to be changed into a constructive force, that is possible, or it may be simply dissolved and reduced to nothing. And with that not only is the illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness once for all, it never comes back. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0530/22the-~~july~~danger-~~1953~~of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#~~p62~~p42</ref~~></span~~>

~~= Purification of Various Qualities =~~<center>~</center>

~~== Purification~~ It is the inner offering of ~~Ambition ==~~the heart's adoration, the soul of it in the symbol, the spirit of it in the act, that is the very life of the sacrifice. If this offering is to be complete and universal, then a turning of all our emotions to the Divine is imperative. This is the intensest way of purification for the human heart, more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it. In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense. It is the divine love which so emerges that, extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be more potent for the perfectibility of life and a more real instrument than the ineffective mental ideal of brotherhood can ever be. It is this poured out into acts that could alone create a harmony in the world and a true unity between all its creatures; all else strives in vain towards that end so long as Divine Love has not disclosed itself as the heart of the delivered manifestation in terrestrial Nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p14</ref>

~~And so, purification~~ = Purification of experience means to make the experience sincere and motiveless. To take away all one's motives of ambition and vanity, of desire, power, etc. This is called purifying the experience, making it sincere, spontaneous and not mixing it with desires and ambitions. There are spiritual ambitions, he speaks of them, and these are even the most dangerous. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/12-january-1955#p34</ref>Mind ==

== ~~Purity of Understanding~~ = Release from Subjection to the Body ===

~~The first necessity~~ We say then to the mind “This is a working of ~~preparation~~ Prakriti, this is ~~the purifying of all the members of our being~~neither thyself nor myself; ~~especially~~stand back from it.” We shall find, ~~for the path of knowledge~~if we try, that the ~~purification~~ mind has this power of detachment and can stand back from the ~~understanding~~body not only in idea, but in act and as it were physically or rather vitally. This detachment of the ~~key that shall open the door of Truth; and~~ mind must be strengthened by a ~~purified understanding is hardly possible without~~ certain attitudeof indifference to the ~~purification~~ things of the ~~other members. An unpurified heart~~body; we must not care essentially about its sleep or its waking, ~~an unpurified sense~~its movement or its rest, ~~an unpurified life confuse the understanding~~its pain or its pleasure, ~~disturb~~ its ~~data~~health or ill-health, ~~distort~~ its ~~conclusions, darken~~ vigour or its ~~seeing~~fatigue, ~~misapply~~ its ~~knowledge; an unpurified physical system clogs~~ comfort or ~~chokes up~~ its ~~action. There must be an integral purity. Here also there is an interdependence; for the purification of each member of our being profits by the clarifying of every other~~discomfort, the progressive tranquillisation of the emotional heart helping for instance the purification of the understanding while equally a purified understanding imposes calm and light on the turbid and darkened workings of the yet impure emotionsor what it eats or drinks. ~~It may even be said~~ This does not mean that ~~while each member of our being has its own proper principles of purification, yet it is~~ we shall not keep the ~~purified understanding that~~ body in ~~man is the most potent cleanser of his turbid and disordered being and most sovereignly imposes their~~ right ~~working on his other members. Knowledge, says the Gita, is the sovereign purity~~order so far as we can; ~~light is the source~~ we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of ~~all clearness and harmony even as~~ the ~~darkness of ignorance is the cause of all our stumblings~~physical frame. ~~Love, for example, is the purifier of the heart and by reducing all our emotions into terms of divine love the heart is perfected and fulfilled; yet love itself needs~~ But we have not either to be clarified by divine knowledge. The heart's love of God may be blind, narrow and ignorant and lead to fanaticism and obscurantism; it may, even when otherwise pure, limit our perfection by refusing to see Him except affected in ~~a limited personality and~~ mind by ~~recoiling from~~ hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the ~~true~~ physical and ~~infinite vision. The heart's love of~~ vital man ~~may equally lead~~ attaches to ~~distortions and exaggerations in feeling, action and knowledge which have to be corrected and prevented by~~ the ~~purification~~ things of the ~~understanding~~body, or indeed any but a quite subordinate and purely instrumental importance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-~~purified~~release-from-subjection-to-the-~~understanding~~body#p3p2</ref~~></span~~>

<~~span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"~~center>~~We must, however, consider deeply and clearly what we mean by the understanding and by its purification. We use the word as the nearest equivalent we can get in the English tongue to the~~ ~Sanskrit philosophical term buddhi; therefore we exclude from it the action of the sense mind which merely consists of the recording of perceptions of all kinds without distinction whether they be right or wrong, true or mere illusory phenomena, penetrating or superficial. We exclude that mass of confused conception which is merely a rendering of these perceptions and is equally void of the higher principle of judgment and discrimination. Nor can we include that constant leaping current of habitual thought which does duty for understanding in the mind of the average unthinking man, but is only a constant repetition of habitual associations, desires, prejudices, prejudgments, received or inherited preferences, even though it may constantly enrich itself by a fresh stock of concepts streaming in from the environment and admitted without the challenge of the sovereign discriminating reason. Undoubtedly this is a sort of understanding which has been very useful in the development of man from the animal; but it is only one remove above the animal mind; it is a half-animal reason subservient to habit, to desire and the senses and is of no avail in the search whether for scientific or philosophical or spiritual knowledge. We have to go beyond it; its purification can only be effected either by dismissing or silencing it altogether or by transmuting it into the true understanding. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p4</ref></spancenter>

~~= Path~~ Thus disciplined the mind will gradually learn to take up towards the body the true attitude of ~~Purity =~~the Purusha. First of all, it will know the mental Purusha as the upholder of the body and not in any way the body itself; for it is quite other than the physical existence which it upholds by the mind through the agency of the vital force. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p3</ref>

"All conditioned things are impermanent." When one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered from sorrow. That is the Path of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-path#p5</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~"All conditioned things are subject~~ Secondly, with regard to the movements and experiences of the body the mind will come to ~~suffering~~know the Purusha seated within it as, first, the witness or observer of the movements and, secondly, the knower or perceiver of the experiences.~~" When one has seen that~~ It will cease to consider in thought or feel in sensation these movements and experiences as its own but rather consider and feel them as not its own, as operations of Nature governed by ~~realisation, he is delivered from sorrow. That is~~ the ~~Path~~ qualities of ~~purity~~Nature and their interaction upon each other. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0323/the-~~path~~release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p6p4</ref~~></span~~>

"All things are insubstantial." When one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered from sorrow. That is the Path of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-path#p7</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~<span style="background-color:transparent~~Finally, the mind will come to know the Purusha in the mind as the master of Nature whose sanction is necessary to her movements. It will find that as the giver of the sanction he can withdraw the original fiat from the previous habits of Nature and that eventually the habit will cease or change in the direction indicated by the will of the Purusha;~~color:#000000~~not at once, for the old sanction persists as an obstinate consequence of the past Karma of Nature until that is exhausted, and a good deal also depends on the force of the habit and the idea of fundamental necessity which the mind had previously attached to it;~~">Life~~ but if it is ~~hard~~ not one of the fundamental habits Nature has established for the ~~modest one who seeks purity~~relation of the mind, ~~who~~ life and body and if the old sanction is ~~detached~~not renewed by the mind or the habit willingly indulged, ~~unassuming and whose judgment is correct~~then eventually the change will come. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0323/~~impurity~~the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#~~p12~~ p5</ref~~></span~~>

~~Purity must be our aim, but not~~ == Release from the ~~purity of a void or of a bleak~~ Heart and ~~rigid coldness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/~~the~~-master-of-the-work#p7</ref>~~Mind ===

~~There was a third thing?~~... ~~Yes, you must~~ the ascending soul has to separate itself not ~~cherish~~ only from the ~~illusion that if you want~~ life in the body but from the action of the life-energy in the mind; it has to ~~follow~~ make the mind say as the representative of the Purusha “I am not the Life; the Life is not the ~~straight path~~self of the Purusha, ~~if you~~ it is only a working and only one working of Prakriti.” The characteristics of Life are ~~modest~~action and movement, ~~if you seek purity, if you are disinterested, if you want~~ a reaching out to absorb and assimilate what is external to ~~lead a solitary existence~~ the individual and ~~have~~ a ~~clear judgment~~principle of satisfaction or dissatisfaction in what it seizes upon or what comes to it, which is associated with the all-pervading phenomenon of attraction and repulsion. These three things ~~will become easy.~~are everywhere in Nature because Life is everywhere in Nature.But in us mental beings they are all given a mental value according to the mind which perceives and accepts them.They take the form of action, of desire and of liking and disliking, pleasure and pain. It The Prana is ~~quite~~ everywhere in us supporting not only the ~~contrary! When you begin to advance towards inner~~ action of our body, but of our sense-mind, our emotional mind, our thought-mind; and ~~outer perfection~~bringing its own law or dharma into all these, it confuses, it limits, it throws into discord their right action and creates that impurity of misplacement and that tangled confusion which is the ~~difficulties start at~~ whole evil of our psychological existence. In that confusion one law seems to reign, the ~~same time~~law of desire. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0323/~~impurity~~the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#~~p29~~p1</ref~~></span~~>

Doing evil, one harms oneself; avoiding evil, one purifies oneself; purity and impurity depend on ourselves; no one can purify another. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-ego#p9</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~No protection~~mind. He has to say “I am not this thing that struggles and suffers, grieves and rejoices, loves and hates, hopes and is baffled, is angry and afraid and cheerful and depressed, a thing of vital moods and emotional passions. All these are merely workings and habits of Prakriti in the sensational and emotional mind.” The mind then draws back from its emotions and becomes with these, as with the bodily movements and experiences, ~~no Grace can save those who refuse~~ the ~~indispensable purification~~observer or witness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0823/15the-release-from-~~august~~the-~~1956~~heart-and-the-mind#p6</ref~~></span~~>

~~= Forms of Purity =~~<center>~</center>

~~== Integral Purity ==~~As with action and inaction, so it is with this dual possibility of indifference and calm on the one side and active joy and love on the other. Equality, not indifference is the basis. Equal endurance, impartial indifference, calm submission to the causes of joy and grief without any reaction of either grief or joy are the preparation and negative basis of equality; but equality is not fulfilled till it takes its positive form of love and delight. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p8</ref>

~~Integral purity: the whole being is purified of the ego. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p9</ref>~~'''''Emotional Mind'''''

~~An integral purification is~~ ... the emotional mind compelled to take note of all these discords and subject itself to their emotional reactions becomes a ~~long~~ hurtling field of joy and grief, love and hatred, wrath, fear, struggle, aspiration, disgust, likes, dislikes, indifferences, content, discontent, hopes, disappointments, gratitude, revenge and ~~slow labour~~all the stupendous play of passion which is the drama of life in the world. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1723/21the-release-from-the-heart-and-~~june~~the-~~1935~~mind#p2p3</ref~~></span~~>

<~~span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Power of integral purity: the power to accept nothing but the divine influence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p10</ref~~center>~</~~span~~center>

~~The divine existence~~ There is ~~of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. An integral purity~~ this emotional mind in which ~~shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves~~ these moods and ~~on the other~~ passions continue to occur according to the ~~perfect outpouring~~ habit of ~~its Truth and Law in us in~~ the ~~terms~~ modes of ~~life~~ Nature 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~~ observing mind 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~~sees them, ~~a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love~~ studies 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~~understands but is detached from them.~~in/cwsa/23/the-synthesis-of-the-systems#p19</ref>~~

~~== Self-Purification ==~~It observes them as if in a sort of action and play on a mental stage of personages other than itself, at first with interest and a habit of relapse into identification, then with entire calm and detachment, and, finally, attaining not only to calm but to the pure delight of its own silent existence, with a smile at their unreality as at the imaginary joys and sorrows of a child who is playing and loses himself in the play.

~~The world will be made better only in proportion~~ Secondly, it becomes aware of itself as we master of the sanction who by his withdrawal of sanction can make ~~ourselves better~~this play to cease. ~~The Vedantic truth that~~ When the ~~world~~ sanction is ~~only a projection—a function—of our consciousness is as pragmatically true as it is spiritually true. The ills that humanity suffers from—collectively~~ withdrawn, another significant phenomenon takes place; the emotional mind becomes normally calm and pure and ~~individually—stem~~ free from ~~the errors that lie at the roots of our ignorant nature. We must be cleansed of~~ these ~~evils—individually first of all—if we ever hope~~ reactions, and even when they come, they no longer rise from within but seem to ~~see a clean world~~ fall on it as impressions from outside~~. A yoga~~ to which its fibres are still able to respond; but this habit of ~~self-purification~~ response dies away and the emotional mind is in time entirely liberated from the ~~condition precedent to a yoga~~ passions which it has renounced. Hope and fear, joy and grief, liking and disliking, attraction and repulsion, content and discontent, gladness and depression, horror and wrath and fear and disgust and shame and the passions of ~~perfection~~love and hatred fall away from the liberated psychic being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1423/~~helping~~the-release-from-the-~~others~~heart-and-the-~~world~~mind#~~p23~~p6</ref~~></span~~>

~~== Divine Purity ==~~'''''Sense Mind'''''

~~The Divine Purity~~ Desire is ~~a more wide~~ at once the motive of our actions, our lever of accomplishment and ~~all~~the bane of our existence. If our sense-mind, emotional mind, thought-~~embracing experience than~~ mind could act free from the ~~psychic. <ref>http://incarnateword~~intrusions and importations of the life-energy, if that energy could be made to obey their right action instead of imposing its own yoke on our existence, all human problems would move harmoniously to their right solution.~~in/cwsa/29/purity#p15</ref>~~

~~Divine purity:~~ energy is to do what it is ~~happy just~~ bidden by the divine principle in us, to reach to and enjoy what is given to ~~be, in~~ it by that indwelling Divine and not to desire at all ~~simplicity~~. ~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p16</ref>~~

~~For it should be said~~mind is to lie open passively, ~~surely, that purity as conceived on earth has nothing~~ luminously to the contacts of Life and transmit their sensations and the rasa or right taste and principle of delight in them to ~~do with divine purity. At~~ the ~~best it is an approximation.~~ higher function; <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0623/14the-release-from-~~april~~the-~~1954~~heart-and-the-mind#~~p19~~p2</ref~~></span~~>

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</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~We are the deforming intermediary between~~ mind must also be rejected from the ~~purity~~ instrument of ~~the animal~~ thought and this is best done by the ~~divine purity~~ detachment of the ~~gods~~Purusha from thought and opinion itself. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1523/19the-release-from-the-heart-and-~~july~~the-~~1958~~mind#~~p13~~p9</ref~~></span~~>

~~== Ascetic Purity ==~~'''''Thought Mind'''''

~~Once~~ mind is to observe, understand, judge with a dispassionate delight in knowledge and open itself to messages and ~~for~~ illuminations playing upon all that it ~~swept away not only~~ observes and upon all ~~the ordinary notions of morality~~that is yet hidden from it but must progressively be revealed, ~~but everything~~ messages and illuminations that ~~is considered here~~ secretly flash down to us from the divine Oracle concealed in ~~India as necessary for~~ light above our mentality whether they seem to descend through the ~~spiritual life~~intuitive mind or arise from the seeing heart. ~~From~~ But this ~~point of view~~ it ~~was very instructive First~~ cannot do rightly because it is pinned to the limitations of ~~all this kind of so~~the life-~~called ascetic purity. Ascetic purity is simply~~ energy in the senses, to the ~~rejection~~ discords of ~~all vital movements; instead of taking up these movements~~ sensation and ~~turning them towards the Divine~~emotion, ~~that is~~ and to ~~say~~its own limitations of intellectual preference, inertia, straining, ~~instead of seeing~~ self-will which are the ~~supreme Presence~~ form taken in ~~them and letting~~ it by the ~~Supreme act freely on them~~interference of this desire-mind, ~~you tell Him, "No, that is not your concern." He is not allowed to interfere with them~~this psychic Prana. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1023/~~aphorism~~the-release-from-the-heart-69and-the-mind#p8p4</ref~~></span~~>

~~== Moral Versus Spiritual Purification ==~~<center>~</center>

~~For example, if you take your stand on a moral viewpoint—which is itself altogether wrong from~~ mind will be the same as with all the ~~spiritual point~~ rest of ~~view—there are people who apparently lead an altogether perfectly moral life, who conform to all~~ the ~~social laws~~being. The Purusha, ~~all~~ having used the ~~customs,~~ thought-mind for release from identification with the ~~moral conventions,~~ life and body and ~~who are a mass of impurity—from~~ with the ~~spiritual point~~ mind of ~~view these beings are profoundly impure. On~~ desire and sensations and emotions, will turn round upon the ~~other hand there are some poor people who do things... who are born~~all these ideas, opinions, ~~for instance~~speculations, ~~with a sense~~ strivings of ~~freedom~~the intellect, its predilections, preferences, dogmas, doubts, ~~and do things which~~ self-corrections are not ~~considered very respectable from the social or moral point of view, and who can be in~~ myself; all this is only a ~~state~~ working of ~~inner aspiration and inner sincerity~~ Prakriti which ~~makes them infinitely purer than~~ takes place in the ~~others~~thought-mind. ~~This~~ ” Thus a division is ~~one of~~ created between the mind that thinks and wills and the ~~big difficulties. As soon as one speaks of these things, there arises~~ mind that observes and the ~~deformation produced in~~ Purusha becomes the ~~consciousness by all~~ witness only; he sees, he understands the ~~social~~ process and ~~moral conventions. As soon as you speak~~ laws of ~~purity~~his thought, ~~a moral monument comes in front of you which completely falsifies your notion~~but detaches himself from it. ~~And note that it is infinitely easier to be moral from~~ Then as the ~~social point~~ master of ~~view than to be moral~~ the sanction he withdraws his past sanction from the ~~spiritual point~~ tangle 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;~~ mental undercurrent and ~~one may be, as I said, a monument of insincerity~~ the reasoning intellect and ~~impurity while doing this; whereas~~ causes both to ~~be pure~~ cease from their importunities. He becomes liberated from subjection to the ~~spiritual point~~ thinking mind and capable of ~~view means a vigilance, a consciousness, a sincerity that stand all tests~~the utter silence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0623/22the-~~december~~release-~~1954~~from-the-heart-and-the-mind#~~p20~~p9</ref~~></span~~>

== ~~Mental Purity~~ = Release from Ego ===

~~<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000~~In human egoism and its satisfaction there can be no divine culmination and deliverance. A certain purification from egoism is the condition even of ethical progress and elevation, for social good and perfection;~~">Mental~~ much more is it indispensable for inner peace, purity: and joy. But a ~~mirror which does~~ much more radical deliverance, not ~~distort. <ref>http://incarnateword~~only from egoism but from ego-idea and ego-sense, is needed if our aim is to raise human into divine nature.~~in/cwm/14/purity#p11</ref>~~

~~Perfect mental purity~~it brings contraction of the consciousness and with the contraction limitation of knowledge, disabling ignorance,—confinement and a diminution of power and by that diminution incapacity and weakness,—scission of oneness and by that scission disharmony and failure of sympathy and love and understanding,—inhibition or fragmentation of delight of being and by that fragmentation pain and sorrow. To recover what is lost we must break out of the walls of ego. The ego must either disappear in impersonality or fuse into a larger I: it must fuse into the wider cosmic “I” which comprehends all these smaller selves or the transcendent of which even the cosmic self is a ~~spotless mirror constantly turned towards the Divine~~diminished image. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1423/~~purity~~the-release-from-the-ego#~~p12~~ p2</ref~~></span~~>

~~Integral mental purity: silent, attentive, receptive, concentrated on the Divine―this~~ '''''Cosmic self is ~~the path to purity. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p13 </ref>~~not Collective Existence'''''

== But this cosmic self is spiritual in essence and in experience; it must not be confused with the collective existence, with any group soul or the life and body of a human society or even of all mankind. The subordination of the ego to the progress and happiness of the human race is now a governing idea in the world’s thought and ethics; but this is a mental and moral and not a spiritual ideal. For that progress is a series of constant mental, vital and physical vicissitudes, it has no firm spiritual content, and offers no sure standing-ground to the soul of man. <~~span style="background~~ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-~~color:transparent;color:~~release-from-the-ego#~~000000;">Vital Purity~~p3</~~span~~ref> ==

~~Vital purity: it begins with the abolition~~ '''''Elimination of ~~desire.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p14 </ref>~~Ego'''''

In the ancient way of knowledge we arrive at the elimination of the ego-sense which attaches itself to the body, to the life, to the mind and says of all or any of them, “This is I”. Not only do we, as in the way of works, get rid of the “I” of the worker and see the Lord alone as the true source of all works and sanction of works and His executive Nature-power or else His supreme Shakti as the sole agent and worker,—but we get rid also of the ego-sense which mistakes the instruments or the expressions of our being for our true self and spirit.

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>'''''Release also from Elusive Ego'''''

~~The purification~~ there remains a substratum of ~~the vital takes~~ all these, a ~~long time because until all~~ general sense of the ~~parts are free~~separate I. This substratum ego is something vague, ~~none~~ indefinable, elusive; it does not or need not attach itself to anything in particular as the self; it does not identify itself with anything collective; it is ~~quite free and because they use~~ a ~~multitude~~ sort of fundamental form or power of ~~movements~~ the mind which ~~have~~ compels the mental being to feel himself as a perhaps indefinable but still a limited being which is not mind, life or body, but under which their activities proceed in Nature. And because it seems to be ~~changed~~ above or behind the play and not in it, because it does not say “I am the mind, life or ~~enlightened~~body,~~—and moreover there is~~ ” but “I am a ~~great habit~~ being on whom the action of ~~persistence~~ mind, life and body depends,” many think themselves released and ~~resistance in~~ mistake this elusive Ego for the One, the Divine, the true Purusha or at the very least for the true Person within them,—mistaking the ~~habitual movements of~~ indefinable for the ~~nature~~sense remains, there is no absolute release. ~~One therefore easily thinks that one has made no progress~~The egoistic life,~~—but all sincere~~ even if diminished in force and ~~sustained effort of purification has its result and after a time the progress made will become evident~~intensity, can still continue well enough with this support.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/3123/~~wrong~~the-~~movements~~release-offrom-the-~~vital~~ego#~~p31~~p5</ref~~></span~~>

~~== Purity in Health ==~~<center>~</center>

~~Light in~~ sense also and get back to 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 Purusha on whom it is supporting itself, of ~~desires;~~ whom it is a shadow; the shadow has to disappear and by its disappearance reveal the ~~true condition for good health~~spirit’s unclouded substance.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1423/the-~~body~~release-from-the-~~physical~~ego#~~p20~~p5</ref~~></span~~>

'''''True Self, The Jiva'''''

~~= Impurities =~~That substance is the self of the man called in European thought the Monad, in Indian philosophy, Jiva or Jivatman, the living entity, the self of the living creature. This Jiva is not the mental ego-sense constructed by the workings of Nature for her temporary purpose. It is not a thing bound, as the mental being, the vital, the physical are bound, by her habits, laws or processes. The Jiva is a spirit and self, superior to Nature. It is true that it consents to her acts, reflects her moods and upholds the triple medium of mind, life and body through which she casts them upon the soul’s consciousness; but it is itself a living reflection or a soul-form or a self-creation of the Spirit universal and transcendent. The One Spirit who has mirrored some of His modes of being in the world and in the soul, is multiple in the Jiva. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p6</ref>

'''''Goal for the seeker of Integral Knowledge'''''

For the disciple of an integral Yoga there can be no hesitation; as a seeker of knowledge it is the integral knowledge and not anything either half-way and attractive or high-pinnacled and exclusive he must seek. He must soar to the utmost height, but also circle and spread to the most all-embracing wideness, not binding himself to any rigid structure of metaphysical thought, but free to admit and combine all the soul’s highest and greatest and fullest and most numerous experiences. If the highest height of spiritual experience, the sheer summit of all realisation is the absolute union of the soul with the Transcendent who exceeds the individual and the universe, the widest scope of that union is the discovery of that very Transcendent as the source, support, continent, informing and constituent spirit and substance of both these manifesting powers of the divine Essence and the divine Nature. Whatever the path, this must be for him the goal.

~~Thinking too much about one's impurities does not help~~One he must be with the Divine both in his highest and inmost and in his widest being and consciousness, in his work, his will, his power of action, his mind, body, life. It Otherwise he is ~~better to keep~~ only released from the ~~thought fixed on~~ illusion of individual works, but not released from the ~~purity, light~~ illusion of separate being and ~~peace that one wants to acquire. <ref> http://incarnateword~~instrumentality.~~in/cwm/14/mistakes-no-torment-worry-or-sadness#p5 </ref>~~

~~…  there are two forms of impurity which are at~~ Obeying the ~~root of~~ necessity to withdraw successively from the ~~whole confusion. One is a defect born of the nature~~ practical egoism of our ~~past evolution, which has been a~~ triple nature ~~of separative ignorance; this defect is a radically wrong~~ and ~~ignorant form given~~ its fundamental ego-sense, we come to the ~~proper action of each part of our instrumental being. The other impurity is born~~ realisation of the ~~successive process of an evolution~~spirit, ~~where life emerges in and depends on body, mind emerges in and depends on life in~~ the ~~body~~self, ~~supermind emerges in and lends itself to instead~~ lord of ~~governing mind~~this individual human manifestation, ~~soul itself~~ but our knowledge is ~~apparent only as a circumstance of~~ not integral if we do not make this self in the ~~bodily life of~~ individual one with the ~~mental being~~ cosmic spirit and ~~veils~~ find their greater reality above in an inexpressible but not unknowable Transcendence. The Jiva, possessed of himself, must give himself up into the ~~spirit in~~ being of the ~~lower imperfections~~Divine. ~~This second defect of our nature is caused by this dependence~~ The self of the ~~higher on~~ man must be made one with the ~~lower parts~~Self of all; ~~it is an immixture of functions by which~~ the ~~impure working~~ self of the ~~lower instrument gets~~ finite individual must pour itself into the ~~characteristic action of~~ boundless finite and that cosmic spirit too must be exceeded in the ~~higher function and gives to it an added imperfection of embarrassment, wrong direction and confusion~~transcendent Infinite.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/the-~~instruments~~release-offrom-the-~~spirit~~ego#p3p7</ref~~></span~~>

~~Now, there are stages, there are degrees. For example, insincerity,~~ play in which it is ~~one~~ so active and so falsifies the truth of things; the ~~greatest impurities,~~ truth is always ~~arises from~~ the ~~fact that a movement or a set of movements~~One at work on itself, at play with itself, infinite in unity, ~~an element of~~ infinite in multiplicity. When the ~~being or a number of elements, want~~ individualised consciousness rises to ~~follow their own will~~ and ~~not be the expression~~ lives in that truth of the ~~divine Will. So this produces~~ cosmic play, then even in full action, even in possession of the lower being ~~either a revolt or a falsehood. I don't mean that~~ the Jiva remains still one ~~tells lies~~with the Lord, ~~but I mean that one~~ and there is no bondage and no delusion. He is in ~~a state of falsehood, of insincerity. And then, the consequences are more or less serious and more or less extensive according to the gravity~~ possession of ~~the movement itself~~ Self and ~~its importance. But these, if one sees~~ released from the ~~point of view of purity, these are the real impurities~~ego.~~~~ <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0623/22the-~~december~~release-from-the-~~1954~~ego#~~p19~~ p11</ref>

== Purification of Experience ==

~~It is obvious that in~~ And so, purification of experience means to make the ~~purity~~ experience sincere and motiveless. To take away all one's motives of ~~its essence~~ambition and vanity, ~~only that which is perfectly divine can feel that suffering; but partially~~of desire, ~~momentarily~~power, ~~like flashes of lightning behind~~ etc. This is called purifying the ~~dark clouds of egoism~~experience, making it ~~appears in all who have a vast~~ sincere, spontaneous and ~~generous heart. However, most often, in the individual consciousness~~ not mixing it ~~is mixed~~ with ~~that mean and petty self-pity which is the cause of depression~~ desires and ~~weakness~~ambitions. ~~Nevertheless~~There are spiritual ambitions, ~~when one is vigilant enough to refuse this mixture or at least to reduce it to a minimum~~he speaks of them, ~~one soon realises that this divine compassion is based on a sublime~~ and ~~eternal joy which alone has~~ these are even the ~~strength and the power to deliver the world from its ignorance and misery~~most dangerous.~~~~ <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1507/512-~~february~~january-~~1956~~1955#p5 p34</ref>

~~There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses~~. ~~Yoga~~ .. experiences can be intense and yet be very mixed in ~~its process of purification will lay bare~~ their truth and ~~throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you~~their character. ~~And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside~~In your experience your own subjectivity, ~~you have to face them~~ sometimes your ego-pushes interfere very much and ~~conquer and remould~~ give them~~. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control,~~ their form and the ~~hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free,~~ impression they ~~rush up and invade the being~~create on you. ~~So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control,~~ It is only if there is a ~~period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put~~ pure psychic response that the form given to the ~~test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in~~ experience is likely to be the ~~fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently~~ right one and ~~endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within~~ the mental and ~~sit upon them~~vital movements will then present themselves in their true nature. ~~But~~ Otherwise the ~~more you think of a thing and say~~mind, ~~"I don't want it, I don't want it"~~the vital, the ~~more you are bound~~ ego give their own colour to itwhat happens, their own turn, very usually their own deformation. ~~What you should do~~ Intensity is ~~to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice~~ not a guarantee of entire truth and correctness in an experience; it ~~as possible and, even if you happen to think~~ is only purity of ~~it, remain indifferent~~ the consciousness that can give an entire truth and ~~unconcerned~~correctness.~~~~ <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0330/14the-~~april~~danger-~~1929~~of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p6 p42</ref>

== ~~Ego~~ Key to Purification ==

The ego seems to have been indispensable at one time for the formation of the individual consciousness, but with the ego were born all the obstacles, sufferings, difficulties, all that now appears to us as adverse and anti-divine forces. But these forces themselves were a necessity for attaining an inner purification and the liberation from ego. The ego is at once the result of their action and the cause of their prolongation. When the ego disappears, the adverse forces will also disappear, having no longer any reason for their existence in the world. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-fool#p20 </ref>== Love ===

In this way it is not necessary to introduce the principle of love into the explanation. But if you want to know or understand the nature of the Force or the Power that enables or brings about this transformation—particularly where evil is concerned, but also with ugliness to a certain extent—you see that love is obviously the most potent and integral of all powers—integral in the sense that it applies in all cases. It is even more powerful than the power of purification which dissolves all bad will and which is, as it were, the master of the adverse forces, but which has not the direct power of transformation. The power of purification first dissolves in order to allow the transformation afterwards. It destroys one form in order to be able to create a better one, whereas love need not dissolve in order to transform; it possesses the direct power of transformation. Love is like a flame that changes what is hard into something malleable and even sublimates this malleable thing into a kind of purified vapour—it does not destroy, it transforms. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p12 </ref>

<~~div style="color:#000000;"~~center>In human egoism and its satisfaction there can be no divine culmination and deliverance. A certain purification from egoism is the condition even of ethical progress and elevation, for social good and perfection; much more is it indispensable for inner peace, purity and joy. But a much more radical deliverance, not only from egoism but from ego-idea and ego-sense, is needed if our aim is to raise human into divine nature.~</~~div~~center>

The love that one contains in silence acts within oneself for purification and transformation. The love that one turns outwards—if one does it in a pure and disinterested way—may occasionally help others. But most often they receive it wrongly... So you must do as your instinct guides you. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwsa~~cwm/2317/~~the-release-from~~24-~~the~~july-~~ego~~1934#p2 p3</ref>

=== Surrender ===

~~As~~ There are two possibilities, one of purification by personal effort, which takes a long time, another by a direct intervention of the Divine Grace which is ~~said~~ usually rapid in its action. For the ~~Upanishads, our whole mind~~latter there must be a complete surrender and self-~~consciousness~~ giving and for that again usually it is ~~shot through~~ necessary to have a mind that can remain quite quiet and allow the Divine Force to act supporting it with its complete adhesion at every step, but otherwise remaining still and quiet. This last condition which resembles the ~~threads and currents~~ baby cat attitude spoken of ~~this Prana~~by Ramakrishna, ~~this Life-energy that strives~~ is difficult to have. Those who are accustomed to a very active movement of their thought and ~~limits~~will in all they do, ~~grasps~~ find it difficult to still the activity and ~~misses, desires~~ adopt the quietude of mental self-giving. This does not mean that they cannot do the Yoga or cannot arrive at self-giving—only the purification and ~~suffers,~~ the self-giving take a long time to accomplish and ~~only by its purification can we know~~ one must have the patience and ~~possess our real~~ steady perseverance and ~~eternal self~~resolution to go through.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2329/~~the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind~~surrender#p4p78</ref~~> ~~

= ~~Yoga and Purification~~ = Few Helpful Practices ==

Even if you were the only person in the whole world to give himself entirely and in all purity to the Divine—and thus being alone, misunderstood naturally by everyone upon earth—even if it were so, there is no reason why you should not do it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/opinions-of-others#p24</ref>

'''Writing'''

~~Thus purification~~you imagine that I am there and then take a paper and write on it what you wanted to tell me. Then just the very fact of formulating it clearly sometimes gives you the true picture of the situation and you can have the answer more easily. It depends, ~~liberation~~sometimes it is necessary, ~~perfection~~sometimes not, ~~delight of being~~ but if you are ~~four constituent elements~~ in a confusion, a kind of ~~the Yoga~~whirlwind,~~—śuddhi~~above all, ~~mukti~~if there is a vital upsurge, ~~siddhi~~the fact of compelling yourself to put it on paper already quietens you, ~~bhukti~~it begins the work of purification.~~~~ <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwsa~~cwm/2407/~~the-perfection-of-the~~30-~~mental~~march-~~being~~1955#~~p12~~ p38 </ref>

'''Instrument for Purification'''

~~Very often the earlier stage of the sadhana is successful, because there~~ it is not an ~~opening~~ end in itself nor a final law of ~~the mind~~ living. Not to ~~first workings of the Force—afterwards the lower vital consciousness and the physical rise up and if these are not ready or inclined for the sadhana, it ceases. The sadhaka has first~~ mortify thyself but to ~~purify and open them and call~~ satisfy God in the ~~Force to work there and make all ready until he can bring the true consciousness and experience there. Yoga implies a long and difficult work and one~~ world must be ~~ready to accept the necessity of years of preparation and purification and increasing consecration before the greater results can come~~thy object.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwsa~~cwm/2910/~~purity~~aphorism-352-353-354-355-356#p7</ref~~></span~~>

= Symbols of Purity =

== '''Water ==''' The water is the symbol of the power of purification and no hostile being or force can resist this power handled with goodwill and sincerity. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p151 </ref> '''Frankincense''' Frankincense: purification of the vital. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/christmas-messages#p51</ref>

The water is the symbol of the power of purification and no hostile being or force can resist this power handled with goodwill and sincerity. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p151 </ref>'''Agni '''

~~== Frankincense ==~~Agni: the flame of purification which must precede all contact with the invisible worlds. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/will#p18</ref>

~~Frankincense:~~ If you had understood and reacted in the right way, you would have passed the test and got rid not only of this special difficulty but probably of this hostile's influence altogether. But you failed and got possessed. And only one thing was left to me to do, it was to flood you with the pure light, the white flame of purification of to chase from inside you the ~~vital~~intruder.~~I was inside you, penetrating you as usual, but in the form of this supreme purity which is so foreign to all that is anti-divine or even to all ordinary human movement. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/~~christmas~~adverse-~~messages~~forces#~~p51~~p35</ref~~></span>

~~== Agni ==~~<center>~</center>

~~Agni:~~ No wall at all—only the pure light, the white flame of purification ~~which must precede all contact with the invisible worlds~~penetrating right through, from outside inside, from inside outside.~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1415/~~will~~adverse-forces#~~p18~~p37 </ref>

~~<div style="color:#000000;">If you had understood and reacted in the right way, you would have passed~~ The fire is always the ~~test and got rid not only~~ fire of ~~this special difficulty but probably of this hostile's influence altogether. But you failed and got possessed. And only one thing was left to me to do,~~ purification—it is very red when it ~~was to flood you with~~ is acting on the vital; when the ~~pure light~~vital no longer covers the psychic, then the ~~white flame~~ rose colour of ~~purification to chase from inside you~~ the ~~intruder~~psychic comes out more and more. <ref>http://incarnateword. ~~It is what you took probably for a cut~~ in our relations, a wall of separation between us; there was nothing of the kind; I was inside you, penetrating you as usual, but in the form of this supreme purity which is so foreign to all that is anti/cwsa/30/sun-moon-star-~~divine or even to all ordinary human movement.~~fire#p38</~~div~~ref>

<~~span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"~~center><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p35</ref>No wall at all—only the pure light, the white flame of purification penetrating right through, from outside inside, from inside outside.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p37 ~</~~ref~~center>

It is the purification of the physical that is usually indicated in the symbol of burning. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sun-moon-star-fire#p39</ref>

The fire is always the fire of purification—it is very red when it is acting on the vital; when the vital no longer covers the psychic, then the rose colour of the psychic comes out more and more.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sun-moon-star-fire#p38</ref>It is the purification of the physical that is usually indicated in the symbol of burning.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sun-moon-star-fire#p39</ref>

== '''Lamb =='''

~~~~It is a lamb, which means "purity".~~~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/symbols#p13</ref>~~== White ==~~

~~~~'''White ~~indicates a force of purity.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/colours#p13</ref>~~'''

White indicates a force of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/colours#p13</ref>

<~~span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"~~center>~~The white sun indicates the purity and peace of the Divine Consciousness.~~~</~~span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sun-moon-star-fire#p12</ref></span~~center>

The white sun indicates the purity and peace of the Divine Consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sun-moon-star-fire#p12</ref>

~~= Recommended practices =~~

Even if you were the only person in the whole world to give himself entirely and in all purity to the Divine—and thus being alone, misunderstood naturally '''Content curated by everyone upon earth—even if it were so, there is no reason why you should not do it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/opinions-of-others#p24</ref>Aditi Nayan'''

~~== Writing ==~~

~~Sometimes it is easier when you write it down; you imagine that I am there and then take a paper and write on it what you wanted to tell me. Then just the very fact of formulating it clearly sometimes gives you the true picture of the situation and you can have the answer more easily. It depends, sometimes it is necessary, sometimes not, but if you are in a confusion, a kind~~ |Read Summary of whirlwind, above all, if there is a vital upsurge, the fact of compelling yourself to put it on paper already quietens you, it begins the work of purification.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/30-march-1955#p38 </ref>'''[[Purity and Purification Summary|Purity and Purification]]'''

~~== Instrument for Purification ==~~Dear reader, if you notice any error in the paragraph numbers in the hyperlinks, please let us know by dropping an email at integral.edu.in@gmail.com|}

~~Self-denial is a mighty instrument for purification; it is not an end in itself nor a final law of living. Not to mortify thyself but to satisfy God in the world must be thy object.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-352-353-354-355-356#p7</ref>~~

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