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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purity means freedom Purification—rejecting from soil or mixture. The divine Purity is one's nature all that in which there is no mixture egoistic or of the turbid ignorant movements nature of the lower nature. Ordinarily purity is used to mean (in the common language) freedom from vital passion and impulserajasic desire. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p14 p2 </ref> <center>~</center> Thus purification, liberation, perfection, delight of being are four constituent elements of the Yoga,—śuddhi, mukti, siddhi, bhukti. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-perfection-of-the-mental-being#p12 </spanref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Ignorance is 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 </refcenter>~</spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">All An integral purification is a release, a delivery; for it is a throwing away of limiting, binding, obscuring imperfections long 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 Spiritslow labour. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2417/the-liberation-of21-thejune-spirit1935#p1 p2</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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>~</spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparentAll purification is a release, a delivery;colorfor it is a throwing away of limiting, binding, obscuring imperfections and confusions:#000000;">Purification—rejecting 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 one's nature mere intellectuality the freedom of the gnosis. But all that this is an instrumental liberation. The freedom of the soul, mukti, is of a larger and more essential character; it is egoistic or an opening out of mortal limitation into the nature illimitable immortality of rajasic desirethe Spirit. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/puritythe-liberation-of-the-spirit#p2 p1 </ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">This is purity, to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p2 </refcenter>~</spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000The systematic 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;">If one lives only for the Divine vague and ineffective identification which is all the lower knowledge can bring, has to be replaced by the Divinecomplete, there follows a perfect purityintimate, imperative and living union which Yoga brings. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1423/puritythe-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p5p9</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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>~</spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Sri Aurobindo does not use ...you must add the word purity Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the ordinary moral senseleast destructive can survive there. For himIf you have this Force at your disposal or if you can ask for it and get it, "purity" means "exclusively under you direct it on the influence 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 disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and with it that also disappears. It can 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 Divine"illness cured, expressing only but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the Divineillness once for all, it never comes back. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1005/aphorism22-282july-1953#p2 p62</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And yet for the sake of completeness it should The world will be added made better only in proportion as we make ourselves better. The Vedantic truth that because man the world is only a mental being, he projection—a function—of our consciousness is as pragmatically true as it is spiritually true. The ills that humanity suffers from—collectively and individually—stem from the errors that lie at the roots of our ignorant nature. We must necessarily in the course be cleansed of these evils—individually first of his evolution leave behind this unconscious and spontaneous purity, which is very similar all—if we ever hope to the purity see a clean world outside. A yoga of self-purification is the animal, and after passing through an unavoidable period of mental perversion and impurity, rise beyond the mind into the higher and luminous purity condition precedent to a yoga of the divine consciousnessperfection. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1014/aphorismhelping-30others-and-the-world#p6 p23</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purity or impurity depends upon the consciousness; in the divine consciousness everything is pureThe aspiration must be for entire purification, 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></span>especially

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">That was the wisdom of the Buddha who spoke of "the Middle Way": neither too much of this nor too much of that*purification from desires and demands, 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></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">So too *purification from depression which is the word "impurity"result of disappointed desires. Pure, as it It is understood morally, has not at all the meaning it most important for you. Particularly what you must aspire for is given peace in a truly spiritual teaching; and particularly from all the Buddhist standpointbeing, complete equanimity, samata. The feeling that peace is not enough must go. Peace and purity is absence of ignorance, as I have already told you last time, and ignorance means ignoring the inner lawequanimity once established, all the truth of rest must be the being. And loyalty means Mother’s free gift, not to take a result of the illusion for the reality, the changing and fluctuating appearances for the inner and real permanence of demand from the being. <ref> httphttps://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0329/conjugate-versespurity#p62 p5</ref></span>

== Object of Purity Purification ==

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">world falsely; it is incapable of reflecting the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p6 </ref></span>

== Knowledge A certain amount of purification is necessary before there can be any realisation of the Divine and Purity ==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</ref>

<span style="color:#000000;">For all this movement of knowledge which we are describing is a method of purification and 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</refcenter>~</spancenter>

== Perfection As is said in the Upanishads, our whole mind-consciousness is shot through with the threads and Purity ==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>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 being. When the higher truth manifests, it must find in you a mind that Why Purification 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></span>Important? =

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is only by a very persistent effort that one No protection, no Grace 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, save those who goes and sits in a cave or under a tree or in refuse 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 worldindispensable purification. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0608/2915-decemberaugust-19541956#p5 p6</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 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 entire God-content, inaction, the complete stilling of the vibrant mind and With 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 gainedinner liberation, there would be nothing farther to be enjoyed or done. But here we have the more difficult problem of with a total, unabated, even an increased sincerity 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 holdsuffering will disappear, that because it is not a negative, prohibitory, passive or quietistic, but a positive, affirmative, active purity which is his object. A divine quietism discovers will no longer be necessary for the immaculate eternity progress of the Spirit, a divine kinetism adds to it the right pure undeviating action of the soul, mind and bodyconsciousness towards its final goal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2403/the-instruments-of-the-spiritfool#p1p21</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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-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; 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 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 purification is the first necessity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p2</ref></span>== Beauty ===

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In other words, purification must not be understood in any limited Pure 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 and correct that, sure that the rest will then come right naturally. We have not to doctor symptoms of impurity, or that beauty can be acquired only secondarily, as through a minor help, but to strike at its roots after a deeper diagnosisgreat purification. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2415/the-instruments-of-the-spiritbeauty#p2p14</ref></span>

== Aspiration 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>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The aspiration must be for entire purification, especially </span>== Calm ===

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purification and calm are the first needs in the Yoga. One may have a great wealth of experiences of that kind (1worlds, visions, voices etc.) purification from sexwithout them, so that no sex imaginations may enter 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 sex impulse may cease, -need-of-purification#p50</spanref>

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

<span style="backgroundIn your nature there are many obstacles, chiefly a great activity of the outward-color:transparentgoing mind and 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;colorask 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#000000;">(3) purification from depression which is the result of disappointed desires. p9</spanref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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></span>== Perfection ===

== Sincerity As you pursue this labour of purification and Purification ==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>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Sincerity! Sincerity! How sweet is the purity of thy presence! <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/sincerity#p23 </refcenter>~</spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparentIf 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;color:#000000it 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;">There it is they that 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, iseither 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, besidesthe highest negative or passive purity, the entire God-content, inaction, the complete stilling of the vibrant mind and the soul of desire, which in quietistic disciplines leads to a marvellous joy supreme peace; for then the spirit appears in being sincereall the eternal purity of its immaculate essence. That gained, there would be nothing farther to be enjoyed or done. Every act But here we have the more difficult problem of a total, unabated, even an increased and more powerful action founded on perfect bliss of sincerity carries in itself its own reward: the feeling being, the purity of purificationthe soul's instrumental as well as the spirit's essential nature. Mind, heart, life, body are to do the works of soaring upwardsthe 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 liberation one gets when one the problem before him on which the seeker of perfection has rejected even one tiny particle 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 falsehoodthe soul, mind and body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0824/19the-instruments-of-decemberthe-1956spirit#p31p1</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In this way Moreover, it is not necessary to introduce a total purification of all the complex instrumentality in all the principle parts of each instrument that is demanded of love into us by the explanationintegral perfection. But if you want to know or understand It is not, ultimately, the narrower moral purification of the ethical nature of . Ethics deals only with the Force or desire-soul and the Power that enables or brings about this transformation—particularly where evil active outward dynamical part of our being; its field is concernedconfined to character and action. It prohibits and inhibits certain actions, certain desires, impulses, propensities, but also with ugliness to a —it inculcates certain extent—you see that 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 obviously finished. But the Siddha of the most potent and integral perfection has to dwell in a larger plane of all powers—integral in the sense Spirit's eternal purity beyond good and evil… it is meant that it applies the Siddha of the active integral perfection will live dynamically in all cases. It is even more powerful than the working of the transcendent power of purification which dissolves all bad the divine Spirit as a universal will through the supermind individualised in him for action. His works will and which istherefore be the works of an eternal Knowledge, an eternal Truth, an eternal Might, an eternal Love, an eternal Ananda; but the truth, knowledge, force, as it werelove, delight will be the master 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 adverse forces, but which has action will not determine the direct power spirit or subject it to a fixed standard or rigid mould of transformationworking. The power He will have no dominant mere habit of purification first dissolves in order to allow character, but only a spiritual being and will with at the most a free and flexible temperamental mould for the transformation afterwardsaction. It destroys one His life will be a direct stream from the eternal fountains, not a form in order cut to some temporary human pattern. His perfection will not be able to create a better onesattwic purity, but a thing uplifted beyond the gunas of Nature, a perfection of spiritual knowledge, spiritual power, whereas love need not dissolve in order to transformspiritual delight, unity and harmony of unity; it possesses the direct 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 transformationspirit and supermind which is now superconscient to our mentality. Love is like a flame But that changes what cannot work in him so long as his present mental, vital, physical being is hard into something malleable and even sublimates this malleable thing into a kind of purified vapour—it does not destroy, it transformsliberated from its actual inferior working. This purification is the first necessity. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1024/aphorismthe-instruments-of-the-49spirit#p12 p2</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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/cwm/17/24-july-1934#p3</ref></span>== Manifestation ===

== Concentration 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>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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></span>== Knowledge ===

== Instinct 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>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 What to take a dominant position in the consciousness Purify and to veil the spontaneity of the soul. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-30#p4</ref></span>How? =

== Faith 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>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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</refcenter>~</spancenter>

== Surrender ... the main need is a certain preparation of the consciousness so that it may be able to respond more and Purity ==more freely to the higher Force. In this preparation many things are useful—the poetry and music you are doing can help, for it acts as a sort of śravaṇa and manana, even, if the feeling roused is intense, a sort of natural nididhyāsana. Psychic preparation, clearing out of the grosser forms of mental and vital ego, opening mind and heart to the Guru and many other things help greatly—it is not perfection or a complete freedom from 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/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p37</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Detailed surrender means the surrender = Purification 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></span>Understanding ==

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There are two possibilities, one of purification by personal effort, which takes a long time, another by a direct intervention The first necessity of the Divine Grace which preparation is usually rapid in its action. For the latter there must be a complete surrender and self-giving and for that again usually it is necessary to have a mind that can remain quite quiet and allow purifying of all the Divine Force to act supporting it with its complete adhesion at every stepmembers of our being; especially, but otherwise remaining still and quiet. This last condition which resembles for the baby cat attitude spoken path of by Ramakrishnaknowledge, is difficult to have. Those who are accustomed to a very active movement the purification of their thought and will in all they dothe understanding, find it difficult to still the activity key that shall open the door of Truth; and adopt a purified understanding is hardly possible without the quietude purification of mental self-givingthe other members. This does not mean that they cannot do An unpurified heart, an unpurified sense, an unpurified life confuse the Yoga understanding, disturb its data, distort its conclusions, darken its seeing, misapply its knowledge; an unpurified physical system clogs or cannot arrive at self-giving—only the purification and the self-giving take a long time to accomplish and one chokes up its action. There must have the patience and steady perseverance and resolution to go throughbe an integral purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/surrenderthe-purified-understanding#p78p3</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Pure sense By the understanding we mean that which at once perceives, judges and discriminates, the true reason of the human being not subservient to the senses, to desire or to the blind force of beauty can be acquired only through a great purificationhabit, but working in its own right for mastery, for knowledge. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1523/beautythe-purified-understanding#p14p5</ref></span>

<span style="color:#000000;">The preoccupation with universal beauty even in its aesthetic forms has an intense power for refining and subtilising the nature, == Causes and at its highest it is a great force for purification. <ref>http://incarnateword.Remedy of Impurity in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p8</ref></span>Understanding ===

== Receptivity '''''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.

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If we call "perfect receptivity" The will to enjoy is proper to the vital being but not the choice or the receptivity that receives only reaching after the Divine Influence enjoyment which must be determined and no other, acquired by higher functions; therefore the vital being must be trained to accept whatever gain or enjoyment comes to it is certain—and at in the right functioning of the life in obedience to the working of the same time it is perfect purity. <ref>http://incarnateworddivine Will and to rid itself of craving and attachment.in/cwm/16/27-november-1968#p2</ref></span>

== Truth Similarly the heart must be freed from subjection to the cravings of the life principle and Purity ==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>

<span style="background'''''Intermiscence of the Sense-mind''''' -color:transparent;color:#000000;">When we are The second cause of impurity in the presence understanding is the illusion of hostile forces, only the purity senses and the intermiscence of an absolute truth the sense-mind in the thinking functions. No knowledge can conquer be true knowledge which subjects itself to the senses or uses themotherwise than as first indices whose data have constantly to be corrected and overpassed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/20-july-1935#p7</ref></span>

== Calm …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 Purity ==sensible as anything more than phenomenon of the Reality. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p10</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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>~</spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In your nature there are many obstacles, chiefly a great activity of Equally must the outwardsense-going mind be stilled and a thick crust taught to leave the function of thought to the impure lower Prakriti mind that covers judges and understands. When the heart and understanding in us stands back from the vital being. Quieting action of the sense-mind and purification of repels its intermiscence, the latter detaches itself from the nature are what you must have before you understanding and can fulfil your aimbe watched in its separate action. Aspire for these two things first; ask for them It then reveals itself as a constantly from aboveswirling and eddying undercurrent of habitual concepts, associations, perceptions, desires without any real sequence, order or principle of light. You will not be able to achieve them by your own unaided effortIt is a constant repetition in a circle unintelligent and unfruitful. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p9</ref></span>

== Peace There is nothing to be done with this fickle, restless, violent and Purity ==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>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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</refcenter>~</spancenter>

<span style="background'''''Improper Action of the Will to Know''''' -color:transparent;color:#000000;">Peace is necessary for all; without peace A third cause of impurity has its source in the understanding itself and consists in an increasing purityimproper action of the will to know. That will is proper to the understanding, even if one opensbut here again choice and unequal reaching after knowledge clog and distort. They lead to a partiality and attachment which makes the intellect cling to certain ideas and opinions with a more or less obstinate will to ignore the truth in other ideas and opinions, one cannot receive perfectly all that comes down through cling to certain fragments of a truth and shy against the opening. Light too is admission of other parts which are yet necessary for all—without light one cannot take full advantage to its fullness, cling to certain predilections of knowledge and repel all knowledge that comes down. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-does not agree with the personal temperament of thought which has been acquired by the-basis-past of-the-sadhana#p2</ref></span>thinker.

== Manifestation The remedy lies in a perfect equality of the mind, in the cultivation of an entire intellectual rectitude and Purity ==in the perfection of mental disinterestedness. The purified understanding as it will not lend itself to any desire or craving, so will not lend itself either to any predilection or distaste for any particular idea or truth, and will refuse to be attached even to those ideas of which it is the most certain or to lay on them such an undue stress as is likely to disturb the balance of truth and depreciate the values of other elements of a complete and perfect knowledge. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p12</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Neither the complete purification nor the permanent and 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</refcenter>~</spancenter>

== Transformation An understanding thus purified would be a perfectly flexible, entire and Purity ==faultless instrument of intellectual thought and being free from the inferior sources of obstruction and distortion would be capable of as true and complete a perception of the truths of the Self and the universe as the intellect can attain. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p13</ref>

<span style="color:#000000;">= 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></span>Heart ==

= Outcome The purification of Purity =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.

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">With *No pretence with oneself *No concealment from the Divine or oneself or the inner liberation, with a total sincerity Guru*A straight look at one's nature and perfect purity, all suffering will disappear, because it one's movements*A straight will no longer be necessary for the progress of the consciousness towards its final goal. <ref>http://incarnatewordto make them straight.in/cwm/03/the-fool#p21</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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>~</spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">You must It is the inner offering 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 good complete and universal, then a turning of all our emotions to the Divine is imperative. This is the intensest way of purification for the love of goodnesshuman heart, you more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must be just for 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 justicethe flame and smoke and frankincense. It is the divine love which so emerges that, you must extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be pure more potent for the love perfectibility of purity life and you must a more real instrument than the ineffective mental ideal of brotherhood can ever be disinterested for . 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 love heart of disinterestedness; then you are sure to advance on the waydelivered manifestation in terrestrial Nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0323/impuritythe-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p32p14</ref></span>

= Where is Purity? = Purification of Mind ==

<span style="color:#000000;">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 == Release from the Divine or oneself or the Guru, a straight look at one's nature and one's movements, a straight will Subjection 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</ref></span>Body ===

<span style="background-color:transparentWe say then to the mind “This is a working of Prakriti, this is neither thyself nor myself;color:#000000;">Whatever may be stand back from it.” We shall find, if we try, that the mind has this power of detachment and can stand back from the pastbody not only in idea, whatever may but in act and as it were physically or rather vitally. This detachment of the mind must be strengthened by a certain attitudeof indifference to the things of the faults committedbody; we must not care essentially about its sleep or its waking, its movement or its rest, its pain or its pleasure, whatever its health or ill-health, its vigour or its fatigue, its comfort or its discomfort, or what it eats or drinks. This does not mean that we shall not keep the ignorance body in which one might right order so far as we can; we have not to fall into violent asceticisms or a positive neglect of the physical frame. But we have lived, one carries deep within oneself not either to be affected in mind by hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill-health or attach the supreme purity importance which can translate itself into the physical and vital man attaches to the things of the body, or indeed any but a wonderful realisationquite subordinate and purely instrumental importance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0323/the-flowersrelease-from-subjection-to-the-body#p20p2</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">These adverse forces are connected with sexual desire. They live on the energy wasted when the act takes place. And even a thought, a mental or vital desire is sufficient to let them come in and settle in the atmosphere. Thus it is in the mind itself that the purification must take place. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p20</refcenter>~</spancenter>

= How Thus disciplined the mind will gradually learn to Purify? =take up towards the body the true attitude of 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>

<span style="color:#000000;">To rid the prana of desire and incidentally to reverse the ordinary poise of our nature and turn the vital being from a troublesomely dominant power into the obedient instrument of a free and unattached mind, is then the first step in purification. As this deformation of the psychical prana is corrected, the purification of the rest of the intermediary parts of the antaḥkaraṇa is facilitated, and when that correction is completed, their purification too can be easily made absolute. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p7</refcenter>~</spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The systematic purification of Secondly, with regard to the whole being for an integral reflection movements and taking in experiences of the divine reality can only be done by body the special methods of Yoga. Its absolute concentration has mind will come to take know the Purusha seated within it as, first, the place witness or observer of the dispersed concentrations movements and, secondly, the knower or perceiver of the lower knowledge; the vague experiences. It will cease to consider in thought or feel in sensation these movements and experiences as its own but rather consider and ineffective identification which is all the lower knowledge can bringfeel them as not its own, has to be replaced as operations of Nature governed by the complete, intimate, imperative qualities of Nature and living union which Yoga bringstheir interaction upon each other. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higherrelease-andfrom-subjection-to-the-lower-knowledgebody#p9p4</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is the inner offering 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, 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</refcenter>~</spancenter>

<span style="color:#000000;">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 has been seen will find that as the giver of the sanction he can withdraw the original fiat from the previous habits of Nature and that a most effective way eventually the habit will cease or change in the direction indicated by the will of purification is for the mental Purusha to draw back; not at once, to stand for the old sanction persists as an obstinate consequence of the passive witness past Karma of Nature until that is exhausted, and observe and know himself a good deal also depends on the force of the habit and the workings idea of Nature in fundamental necessity which the lower, the normal beingmind had previously attached to it; but this must be combined, if it is not one of the fundamental habits Nature has established for perfectionthe relation of the mind, with a will to raise life and body and if the old sanction is not renewed by the mind or the purified nature into habit willingly indulged, then eventually the higher spiritual beingchange will come. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/the-actionrelease-from-ofsubjection-to-the-divine-shaktibody#p7p5</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">...you must add the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in == Release from the least destructive can survive there. If you have this Force at your disposal or if you can ask for it Heart 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 </span><span styleMind ==="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">disappears; for no force of disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and with it that also disappears. It can 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/05/22-july-1953#p62</ref></span>

= Purification ... the ascending soul has to separate itself not only from the life in the body but from the action of Various Qualities =the life-energy in the mind; it has to make the mind say as the representative of the Purusha “I am not the Life; the Life is not the self of the Purusha, it is only a working and only one working of Prakriti.” The characteristics of Life are action and movement, a reaching out to absorb and assimilate what is external to the individual and a 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 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. The Prana is everywhere in us supporting not only the action of our body, but of our sense-mind, our emotional mind, our thought-mind; and 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 whole evil of our psychological existence. In that confusion one law seems to reign, the law of desire. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p1</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And so, purification of experience means Therefore the mental Purusha has to make the experience sincere separate himself from association and motivelessself-identification with this desire-mind. To take away all one's motives of ambition He has to say “I am not this thing that struggles and vanitysuffers, of desiregrieves and rejoices, powerloves and hates, etc. This hopes and is called purifying the experiencebaffled, making it sincereis angry and afraid and cheerful and depressed, spontaneous a thing of vital moods and not mixing it with desires and ambitionsemotional passions. There All these are spiritual ambitions, he speaks merely workings and habits of themPrakriti in the sensational and emotional mind.” The mind then draws back from its emotions and becomes with these, as with the bodily movements and these are even experiences, the most dangerousobserver or witness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0723/12the-release-from-the-heart-and-januarythe-1955mind#p34p6</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The first necessity of preparation is the purifying of all the members of our being; especially, for the path of knowledge, the purification of the understanding, the key that shall open the door of Truth; As with action and a purified understanding is hardly possible without the purification of the other members. An unpurified heartinaction, an unpurified sense, an unpurified life confuse the 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. Here also there so it is an interdependence; for the purification with this dual possibility of each member of our being profits by the clarifying of every other, the progressive tranquillisation of the emotional heart helping for instance the purification of the understanding while equally a purified understanding imposes indifference and calm and light on the turbid and darkened workings of the yet impure emotions. It may even be said that while each member of our being has its own proper principles of purification, yet it is the purified understanding that in man is the most potent cleanser of his turbid one side and disordered being active joy and most sovereignly imposes their right working love on his the other members. KnowledgeEquality, says the Gita, is the sovereign purity; light is the source of all clearness and harmony even as the darkness of ignorance not indifference is the cause of all our stumblingsbasis. LoveEqual endurance, for exampleimpartial indifference, is calm submission to the purifier causes of the heart joy and by reducing all our emotions into terms grief without any reaction of divine love either grief or joy are the heart is perfected preparation and fulfilled; yet love itself needs to be clarified by divine knowledge. The heart's love negative basis of God may be blind, narrow and ignorant and lead to fanaticism and obscurantismequality; but equality is not fulfilled till it may, even when otherwise pure, limit our perfection by refusing to see Him except in a limited personality and by recoiling from the true and infinite vision. The heart's takes its positive form of love of man may equally lead to distortions and exaggerations in feeling, action and knowledge which have to be corrected and prevented by the purification of the understandingdelight. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purifiedrelease-from-the-heart-and-the-understandingmind#p3p8</ref></span>

= Path ... the emotional mind compelled to take note of Purity =all these discords and subject itself to their emotional reactions becomes a hurtling field of joy and grief, love and hatred, wrath, fear, struggle, aspiration, disgust, likes, dislikes, indifferences, content, discontent, hopes, disappointments, gratitude, revenge and all the stupendous play of passion which is the drama of life in the world. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p3</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">"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>~</spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">"All conditioned things are subject There is this emotional mind in which these moods and passions continue to suffering." When one has seen that by realisationoccur according to the habit of the modes of Nature and there is the observing mind which sees them, he studies and understands but is delivered detached from sorrow. That is the Path of purity. <ref>http://incarnatewordthem.in/cwm/03/the-path#p6</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">"All things are insubstantial." When one has seen that by realisationIt 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, he is delivered from sorrow. That is with a smile at their unreality as at the Path imaginary joys and sorrows of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.a child who is playing and loses himself in/cwm/03/the-path#p7</ref></span>play.

<span style="background-color:transparentSecondly, it becomes aware of itself as master of the sanction who by his withdrawal of sanction can make this play to cease. When the sanction is withdrawn, another significant phenomenon takes place;color:#000000the emotional mind becomes normally calm and pure and free from these reactions, and even when they come, they no longer rise from within but seem to fall on it as impressions from outside to which its fibres are still able to respond;">Life but this habit of response dies away and the emotional mind is hard for in time entirely liberated from the modest one who seeks puritypassions which it has renounced. Hope and fear, joy and grief, liking and disliking, attraction and repulsion, content and discontent, who is detachedgladness and depression, unassuming horror and whose judgment is correctwrath and fear and disgust and shame and the passions of love and hatred fall away from the liberated psychic being. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0323/impuritythe-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p12 p6</ref></span>

<span style="backgroundDesire is at once the motive of our actions, our lever of accomplishment and the bane of our existence. If our sense-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There was a third thing?... Yesmind, emotional mind, you must not cherish thought-mind could act free from the illusion that if you want to follow intrusions and importations of the straight pathlife-energy, if you are modest, if you seek purity, if you are disinterested, if you want that energy could be made to lead a solitary obey their right action instead of imposing its own yoke on our existence and have a clear judgment, things will become easy.... It is quite the contrary! When you begin all human problems would move harmoniously to advance towards inner and outer perfection, the difficulties start at the same time. <ref>http://incarnatewordtheir right solution.in/cwm/03/impurity#p29</ref></span>

<span style="backgroundThe proper function of the life-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Doing evilenergy is to do what it is bidden by the divine principle in us, one harms oneself; avoiding evil, one purifies oneself; purity to reach to and enjoy what is given to it by that indwelling Divine and impurity depend on ourselves; no one can purify anothernot to desire at all. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-ego#p9</ref></span>

<span style="backgroundThe proper function of the sense-color:transparent;color:#000000;">No protectionmind is to lie open passively, no Grace can save those who refuse luminously to the contacts of Life and transmit their sensations and the rasa or right taste and principle of delight in them to the indispensable purification. higher function; <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0823/15the-release-from-the-heart-augustand-the-1956mind#p6p2</ref></span>

<span style="backgroundSo too the proper function of the thought-color:transparent;color:#000000;">An integral purification mind is to observe, understand, judge with a long dispassionate delight in knowledge and open itself to messages and slow labourilluminations playing upon all that it observes and upon all that is yet hidden from it but must progressively be revealed, messages and illuminations that secretly flash down to us from the divine Oracle concealed in light above our mentality whether they seem to descend through the intuitive mind or arise from the seeing heart. But this it cannot do rightly because it is pinned to the limitations of the life-energy in the senses, to the discords of sensation and emotion, and to its own limitations of intellectual preference, inertia, straining, self-will which are the form taken in it by the interference of this desire-mind, this psychic Prana. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1723/21the-release-from-the-heart-and-junethe-1935mind#p2p4</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</refcenter>~</spancenter>

<span style="backgroundThe method with the thought-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The divine existence is mind will be the same as with all the rest of the nature not only of freedombeing. The Purusha, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. An integral purity which shall enable on having used the one hand thought-mind for release from identification with the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves life and body and on with the other the perfect outpouring mind of its Truth desire and sensations and Law in us in emotions, will turn round upon the terms of life thought-mind itself and through will say “This too I am not; I am not the right functioning thought or the thinker; all these ideas, opinions, speculations, strivings of the complex instrument we intellect, its predilections, preferences, dogmas, doubts, self-corrections are not myself; all this is only a working of Prakriti which takes place in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral libertythought-mind. Its result ” Thus a division is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once created between the mind that thinks and wills and the Ananda of all mind that is in observes and the Purusha becomes the world seen as symbols of witness only; he sees, he understands the Divine process and the Ananda laws of that which is not-worldhis thought, but detaches himself from it. And it prepares Then as the integral perfection of our humanity as a type master of the Divine in sanction he withdraws his past sanction from the conditions tangle of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love mental undercurrent and the reasoning intellect and joy, of play of knowledge causes both to cease from their importunities. He becomes liberated from subjection to the thinking mind and capable of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yogautter silence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-synthesisrelease-offrom-the-heart-and-the-systemsmind#p19p9</ref></span>

== Self-Purification = Release from Ego ===

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The world will In human egoism and its satisfaction there can be made better only in proportion as we make ourselves better. The Vedantic truth that the world 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 no divine culmination and individually—stem from </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 to see a clean world outsidedeliverance. A yoga of self-certain purification from egoism is the condition precedent to a yoga even of ethical progress and elevation, for social good and perfection; much more is it indispensable for inner peace, purity and joy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/helping-othersBut a much more radical deliverance, not only from egoism but from ego-idea andego-the-world#p23</ref></span>sense, is needed if our aim is to raise human into divine nature.

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The Divine Purity '''''Cosmic self is a more wide and all-embracing experience than the psychic. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p15</ref></span>not Collective Existence'''''

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000But this cosmic self is spiritual in essence and in experience;">Divine purity: it is happy just to must not beconfused 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 all simplicitythe 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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1423/puritythe-release-from-the-ego#p16p3</ref></span>

<span style="backgroundIn the ancient way of knowledge we arrive at the elimination of the ego-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is like sense which attaches itself to the body, to the word "purity"; one could hold forth interminably on life, to the difference between divine purity mind and what people call puritysays of all or any of them, “This is I”. The divine purityNot only do we, at as in the lowestway of works, allows no influence other than get rid of the divine influence—at “I” of the lowest. But that is already very much distorted; worker and see the Lord alone as the divine purity means that there is only true source of all works and sanction of works and His executive Nature-power or else His supreme Shakti as the Divinesole agent and worker, nothing else—it is perfectly pure, there is only —but we get rid also of the ego-sense which mistakes the instruments or the Divine, there is nothing other than Himexpressions of our being for our true self and spirit. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-63-64-65#p31</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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</refcenter>~</spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">For example'''''True Self, 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 </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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></span>The Jiva'''''

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000For the disciple of an integral Yoga there can be no hesitation;">Perfect mental purity: as a spotless mirror constantly turned towards seeker of knowledge it is the Divineintegral knowledge and not anything either half-way and attractive or high-pinnacled and exclusive he must seek. <ref> http://incarnatewordHe 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.in/cwm/14/purity#p12 </ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Integral mental purity: silentOne he must be with the Divine both in his highest and inmost and in his widest being and consciousness, attentivein his work, receptivehis will, concentrated on his power of action, his mind, body, life. Otherwise he is only released from the Divine―this is illusion of individual works, but not released from the path to purityillusion of separate being and instrumentality. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p13 </ref></span>

== <span style="backgroundObeying the necessity to withdraw successively from the practical egoism of our triple nature and its fundamental ego-color:transparentsense, we come to the realisation of the spirit, the self, lord of this individual human manifestation, but our knowledge is not integral if we do not make this self in the individual one with the cosmic spirit and find their greater reality above in an inexpressible but not unknowable Transcendence. The Jiva, possessed of himself, must give himself up into the being of the Divine. The self of the man must be made one with the Self of all;colorthe self of the finite individual must pour itself into the boundless finite and that cosmic spirit too must be exceeded in the transcendent Infinite. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#000000;">Vital Purityp7</spanref> ==

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>Vital purity: it begins with the abolition of desire. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p14 ~</refcenter>

<span style="backgroundThe ego-sense is not indispensable to the world-color:transparentplay in which it is so active and so falsifies the truth of things;color:#000000;">It the truth is therefore no integral Yoga that kills these vital energiesalways the One at work on itself, at play with itself, infinite in unity, forces them into a nerveless quiescence or roots them out as infinite in multiplicity. When the source individualised consciousness rises to and lives in that truth of noxious activities. Their purificationthe cosmic play, not their destructionthen even in full action,—their transformationeven in possession of the lower being the Jiva remains still one with the Lord, control and utilisation there is no bondage and no delusion. He is the aim in view with which they have been created possession of Self and developed in usreleased from the ego. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-threerelease-stepsfrom-ofthe-natureego#p6p11</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The purification = 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></span>Experience ==

== Purity And so, 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 Health ==/cwm/07/12-january-1955#p34</ref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Light in the cells: the first step towards purity in the cells. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-body-the-physical#p19</refcenter>~</spancenter>

<span style="background... experiences can be intense and yet be very mixed in their truth and their character. In your experience your own subjectivity, sometimes your ego-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purity pushes interfere very much and give them their form and the impression they create on you. It is only if there is a pure psychic response that the form given to the experience is likely to be the right one and the mental and vital movements will then present themselves in their true nature. Otherwise the mind, the cells cannot be obtained except through conquest vital, the ego give their own colour to what happens, their own turn, very usually their own deformation. Intensity is not a guarantee of desiresentire truth and correctness in an experience; it is only purity of the true condition for good healthconsciousness that can give an entire truth and correctness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1430/the-bodydanger-of-the-ego-and-the-physicalneed-of-purification#p20p42</ref></span>

= Impurities = Key to Purification ==

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Thinking too much about one's impurities does not help. It is better to keep the thought fixed on the purity, light and peace that one wants to acquire. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/mistakes-no-torment-worry-or-sadness#p5 </ref></span>== Love ===

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">… &nbsp;</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">there are two forms of impurity which are at In this way it is not necessary to introduce the root principle of love into the whole confusionexplanation. One is a defect born of But if you want to know or understand the nature of our past evolutionthe Force or the Power that enables or brings about this transformation—particularly where evil is concerned, which has been but also with ugliness to a nature of separative ignorance; this defect certain extent—you see that love is a radically wrong obviously the most potent and ignorant form given to integral of all powers—integral in the proper action of each part of our instrumental beingsense that it applies in all cases. The other impurity It is born of even more powerful than the successive process power of an evolutionpurification which dissolves all bad will and which is, where life emerges in and depends on bodyas it were, mind emerges in and depends on life in the body, supermind emerges in and lends itself to instead master of governing mindthe adverse forces, soul itself is apparent only as a circumstance but which has not the direct power of the bodily life transformation. The power of the mental being and veils up the spirit purification first dissolves in order to allow the lower imperfectionstransformation afterwards. This second defect of our nature is caused by this dependence of the higher on the lower partsIt destroys one form in order to be able to create a better one, whereas love need not dissolve in order to transform; it is an immixture of functions by which possesses the impure working direct power of the lower instrument gets transformation. Love is like a flame that changes what is hard into the characteristic action of the higher function something malleable and gives to it an added imperfection even sublimates this malleable thing into a kind of embarrassmentpurified vapour—it does not destroy, wrong direction and confusionit transforms. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2410/theaphorism-instruments-of-the-spirit49#p3p12 </ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 </refcenter>~</spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is obvious The love that one contains in the purity of its essence, only silence acts within oneself for purification and transformation. The love that which is perfectly divine can feel that suffering; but partially, momentarily, like flashes of lightning behind the dark clouds of egoism, one turns outwards—if one does it appears in all who have a vast pure and generous heartdisinterested way—may occasionally help others. However, But most often, in the individual consciousness they receive it is mixed with that mean and petty self-pity which is the cause of depression and weaknesswrongly... 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 miserySo you must do as your instinct guides you. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1517/524-februaryjuly-19561934#p5 p3</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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></span>== Surrender ===

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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>= Few Helpful Practices ==

<span style="color:#000000;">In human egoism Even if you were the only person in the whole world to give himself entirely and its satisfaction there can be no divine culmination and deliverance. A certain purification from egoism is in all purity to the condition even of ethical progress and elevationDivine—and thus being alone, for social good and perfection; much more is misunderstood naturally by everyone upon earth—even if it indispensable for inner peace, purity and joy. But a much more radical deliverancewere so, there is no reason why you should not only from egoism but from ego-idea and ego-sense, is needed if our aim is to raise human into divine naturedo it. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2314/theopinions-release-from-theof-egoothers#p2 p24</ref> </span>

= Yoga Sometimes it is easier when you write it down; you imagine that I am there and Purification =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 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>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Thus purification, liberation, perfection, delight Symbols of being are four constituent elements of the Yoga,—śuddhi, mukti, siddhi, bhukti.</span> <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-perfection-of-the-mental-being#p12 </ref>Purity =

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Very often the earlier stage of The water is the sadhana is successful, because there is an opening symbol of the mind to first workings power of the Force—afterwards the lower vital consciousness and the physical rise up purification and if these are not ready no hostile being 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 force 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 resist this power handled with goodwill and increasing consecration before the greater results can comesincerity.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2912/purityarts#p7p151 </ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 vitalintruder.</span><span style="background-color:transparentIt is what you took probably for a cut in our relations, a wall of separation between us;color:#0066ccthere 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-divine or even to all ordinary human movement. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/christmasadverse-messagesforces#p51p35</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Agni: No wall at all—only the pure light, the white flame of purification which must precede all contact with the invisible worldspenetrating right through, from outside inside, from inside outside.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1415/willadverse-forces#p18p37 </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 lightvital no longer covers the psychic, then the white flame rose colour of purification to chase from inside you the intruderpsychic 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</divref>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"center><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p35</ref></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">No wall at all—only the pure light, the white flame of purification penetrating right through, from outside inside, from inside outside.</span><ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p37 ~</refcenter>

== '''Lamb =='''

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is a lamb, which means "purity".</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/symbols#p13</ref>== White ==

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''White indicates a force of purity.</span><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><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sun-moon-star-fire#p12</ref></spancenter>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/opinions-of-others#p24</ref></span>Aditi Nayan'''

<span style{|class="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;wikitable">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 </span><span style="background-color:transparent#efefff;colorwidth:#000000100%;">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.</span><ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/30-march-1955#p38 </ref>'''[[Purity and Purification Summary|Purity and Purification]]'''

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span><span styleReferences="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-352-353-354-355-356#p7</ref></span>