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= What is Purity? =

Purity means freedom from soil or mixture. The divine Purity is that in which there is no mixture of the turbid ignorant movements of the lower nature. Ordinarily purity is used to mean (in the common language) freedom from vital passion and impulse. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p14 </ref>

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

Sri Aurobindo does not use the word purity in the ordinary moral sense. For him, "purity" means "exclusively under the influence of the Divine", expressing only the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-282#p2 </ref>

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

... man is a mental being, he must necessarily in the course of his evolution leave behind this unconscious and spontaneous purity, which is very similar to the purity of the animal, and after passing through an unavoidable period of mental perversion and impurity, rise beyond the mind into the higher and luminous purity of the divine consciousness. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-30#p6 </ref>

Purity or impurity depends upon the consciousness; in the divine consciousness everything is pure, in the ignorance everything is subject to impurity, not the body only or part of the body, but mind and vital and all. Only the self and the psychic being remain always pure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p16</ref>

Whatever may be the past, whatever may be the faults committed, whatever the ignorance in which one might have lived, one carries deep within oneself the supreme purity which can translate itself into a wonderful realisation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-flowers#p20</ref>

'''Perfect Purity'''

If one lives only for the Divine and by the Divine, there follows a perfect purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p5</ref>

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

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

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

== How Purity is Different from ==

=== Morality ===

For example, if you take your stand on a moral viewpoint—which is itself altogether wrong from the spiritual point of view—there are people who apparently lead an altogether perfectly moral life, who conform to all the social laws, all the customs, the moral conventions, and who are a mass of impurity—from the spiritual point of view these beings are profoundly impure. On the other hand there are some poor people who do things... who are born, for instance, with a sense of freedom, and do things which are not considered very respectable from the social or moral point of view, and who can be in a state of inner aspiration and inner sincerity which makes them infinitely purer than the others. This is one of the big difficulties. As soon as one speaks of these things, there arises the deformation produced in the consciousness by all the social and moral conventions. As soon as you speak of purity, a moral monument comes in front of you which completely falsifies your notion. And note that it is infinitely easier to be moral from the social point of view than to be moral from the spiritual point of view. To be moral from the social viewpoint one has only to pay good attention to do nothing which is not approved of by others; this may be somewhat difficult, but still it is not impossible; and one may be, as I said, a monument of insincerity and impurity while doing this; whereas to be pure from the spiritual point of view means a vigilance, a consciousness, a sincerity that stand all tests. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-december-1954#p20</ref>

=== Ascetic Purity ===

Once and for all it swept away not only all the ordinary notions of morality, but everything that is considered here in India as necessary for the spiritual life. From this point of view it was very instructive First of all this kind of so-called ascetic purity. Ascetic purity is simply the rejection of all vital movements; instead of taking up these movements and turning them towards the Divine, that is to say, instead of seeing the supreme Presence in them and letting the Supreme act freely on them, you tell Him, "No, that is not your concern." He is not allowed to interfere with them. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-69#p8</ref>

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

=== Transformation ===

Purification of the nature by the "influence" of the Spirit is not what I mean by transformation; purification is only part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change—the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose. What I mean by the spiritual transformation is something dynamic (not merely liberation of the self, or realisation of the One which can very well be attained without any descent). It is a putting on of the spiritual consciousness dynamic as well as static in every part of the being down to the subconscient. That cannot be done by the influence of the Self leaving the consciousness fundamentally as it is with only purification, enlightenment of the mind and heart and quiescence of the vital. It means a bringing down of Divine Consciousness static and dynamic into all these parts and the entire replacement of the present consciousness by that. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/transformation-in-the-integral-yoga#p13</ref>

== Purity in Instruments ==

=== Mental Purity ===

Mental purity: a mirror which does not distort. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p11</ref>

Perfect mental purity: a spotless mirror constantly turned towards the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p12 </ref>

Integral mental purity: silent, attentive, receptive, concentrated on the Divine―this is the path to purity. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p13 </ref>

=== Vital Purity ===

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

It is therefore no integral Yoga that kills these vital energies, forces them into a nerveless quiescence or roots them out as the source of noxious activities. Their purification, not their destruction,—their transformation, control and utilisation is the aim in view with which they have been created and developed in us. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-three-steps-of-nature#p6</ref>

The purification of the vital takes a long time because until all the parts are free, none is quite free and because they use a multitude of movements which have to be changed or enlightened,—and moreover there is a great habit of persistence and resistance in the habitual movements of the nature. One therefore easily thinks that one has made no progress, but all sincere and sustained effort of purification has its result and after a time the progress made will become evident. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p31</ref>

=== Purity in Cells ===

Light in the cells: the first step towards purity in the cells. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-body-the-physical#p19</ref>

Purity in the cells cannot be obtained except through conquest of desires; it is the true condition for good health. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-body-the-physical#p20</ref>

== Integral Purity ==

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

Power of integral purity: the power to accept nothing but the divine influence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p10</ref>

The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. An integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ananda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ananda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yoga. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-synthesis-of-the-systems#p19</ref>

== Divine Purity ==

The Divine Purity is a more wide and all-embracing experience than the psychic. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p15</ref>

Divine purity: it is happy just to be, in all simplicity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p16</ref>

For it should be said, surely, that purity as conceived on earth has nothing to do with divine purity. At the best it is an approximation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/14-april-1954#p19</ref>

It is like the word "purity"; one could hold forth interminably on the difference between divine purity and what people call purity. The divine purity, at the lowest, allows no influence other than the divine influence—at the lowest. But that is already very much distorted; the divine purity means that there is only the Divine, nothing else—it is perfectly pure, there is only the Divine, there is nothing other than Him. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-63-64-65#p31</ref>

We are the deforming intermediary between the purity of the animal and the divine purity of the gods. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/19-july-1958#p13</ref>

== Buddhist's view ==

That was the wisdom of the Buddha who spoke of "the Middle Way": neither too much of this nor too much of that, neither falling into this nor falling into that—a little of everything and a balanced way... but ''pure''. Purity and sincerity are the same thing. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-103-104-105-106-107#p77 </ref>

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

== Purity in Relation to other Qualities ==

''' Perfection and Purity '''

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

''' Aspiration and Purity '''

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

''' Sincerity and Purification '''

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

There is, besides, a marvellous joy in being sincere. Every act of sincerity carries in itself its own reward: the feeling of purification, of soaring upwards, of liberation one gets when one has rejected even one tiny particle of falsehood. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-december-1956#p31</ref>

''' Concentration and Purity '''

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

''' Instinct and Purity '''

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

''' Faith and Purity '''

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

''' Surrender and Purity '''

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

''' Receptivity and Purity '''

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

''' Truth and Purity '''

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

''' Peace and Purity '''

Peace and purity of the consciousness are the very foundation of the necessary change in the nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p1</ref>

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

== Path of Purity ==

Life is hard for the modest one who seeks purity, who is detached, unassuming and whose judgment is correct. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p12 </ref>

There was a third thing?... Yes, you must not cherish the illusion that if you want to follow the straight path, if you are modest, if you seek purity, if you are disinterested, if you want to lead a solitary existence and have a clear judgment, things will become easy.... It is quite the contrary! When you begin to advance towards inner and outer perfection, the difficulties start at the same time. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p29</ref>

Very often the earlier stage of the sadhana is successful, because there is an opening of the mind to first workings of the Force—afterwards the lower vital consciousness and the physical rise up and if these are not ready or inclined for the sadhana, it ceases. The sadhaka has first to purify and open them and call in the Force to work there and make all ready until he can bring the true consciousness and experience there. Yoga implies a long and difficult work and one must be ready to accept the necessity of years of preparation and purification and increasing consecration before the greater results can come. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p7</ref>

=== Dhammapada ===

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

"All conditioned things are subject to suffering." When one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered from sorrow. That is the Path of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-path#p6</ref>

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

= What is Impurity? =

== Impurities due to Evolution ==

… there are two forms of impurity which are at the root of the whole confusion. One is a defect born of the nature of our past evolution, which has been a nature of separative ignorance; this defect is a radically wrong and ignorant form given to the proper action of each part of our instrumental being. The other impurity is born of the successive process of an evolution, where life emerges in and depends on body, mind emerges in and depends on life in the body, supermind emerges in and lends itself to instead of governing mind, soul itself is apparent only as a circumstance of the bodily life of the mental being and veils up the spirit in the lower imperfections. This second defect of our nature is caused by this dependence of the higher on the lower parts; it is an immixture of functions by which the impure working of the lower instrument gets into the characteristic action of the higher function and gives to it an added imperfection of embarrassment, wrong direction and confusion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p3</ref>

== Ego ==

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

In human egoism and its satisfaction there can be no divine culmination and deliverance. A certain purification from egoism is the condition even of ethical progress and elevation, for social good and perfection; much more is it indispensable for inner peace, purity and joy. But a much more radical deliverance, not only from egoism but from ego-idea and ego-sense, is needed if our aim is to raise human into divine nature. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p2 </ref>

== Insincerity ==

Now, there are stages, there are degrees. For example, insincerity, which is one of the greatest impurities, always arises from the fact that a movement or a set of movements, an element of the being or a number of elements, want to follow their own will and not be the expression of the divine Will. So this produces in the being either a revolt or a falsehood. I don't mean that one tells lies, but I mean that one is in a state of falsehood, of insincerity. And then, the consequences are more or less serious and more or less extensive according to the gravity of the movement itself and its importance. But these, if one sees from the point of view of purity, these are the real impurities. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-december-1954#p19 </ref>

It is obvious that in the purity of its essence, only that which is perfectly divine can feel that suffering; but partially, momentarily, like flashes of lightning behind the dark clouds of egoism, it appears in all who have a vast and generous heart. However, most often, in the individual consciousness it is mixed with that mean and petty self-pity which is the cause of depression and weakness. Nevertheless, when one is vigilant enough to refuse this mixture or at least to reduce it to a minimum, one soon realises that this divine compassion is based on a sublime and eternal joy which alone has the strength and the power to deliver the world from its ignorance and misery. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/5-february-1956#p5 </ref>

== Hidden Impulses and Desires ==

There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within and sit upon them. But the more you think of a thing and say, "I don't want it, I don't want it", the more you are bound to it. What you should do is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice of it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, remain indifferent and unconcerned. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/14-april-1929#p6 </ref>

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 </ref>

== Focus on Purity not Impurity ==

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>

It is a mistake to dwell too much on the lower nature and its obstacles, which is the negative side of the sadhana. They have to be seen and purified, but preoccupation with them as the one important thing is not helpful. The positive side of experience of the descent is the more important thing. If one waits for the lower nature to be purified entirely and for all time before calling down the positive experience, one might have to wait for ever. It is true that the more the lower nature is purified, the easier is the descent of the higher Nature, but it is also and more true that the more the higher Nature descends, the more the lower is purified. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p35</ref>

== Disinterestedness ==

You must be good for the love of goodness, you must be just for the love of justice, you must be pure for the love of purity and you must be disinterested for the love of disinterestedness; then you are sure to advance on the way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p32</ref>

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

= What is Purification? =

~~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 impulse~~rajasic desire. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#~~p14~~ p2 </ref~~></span~~>

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>~</~~span~~center>

~~All~~ Thus purification ~~is a release~~, ~~a delivery; for it is a throwing away of limiting~~liberation, ~~binding~~perfection, ~~obscuring imperfections and confusions: purification from desire brings the freedom~~ delight of ~~the psychic prana, purification from wrong emotions and troubling reactions the freedom~~ being are four constituent elements of the ~~heart~~Yoga, ~~purification from the obscuring limited thought of the sense mind the freedom of the intelligence~~—śuddhi, ~~purification from mere intellectuality the freedom of the gnosis. But all this is an instrumental liberation. The freedom of the soul~~mukti, ~~mukti~~siddhi, ~~is of a larger and more essential character; it is an opening out of mortal limitation into the illimitable immortality of the Spirit~~bhukti. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-~~liberation~~perfection-of-the-~~spirit~~mental-being#p1 p12 </ref~~></span~~>

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

~~Purification—rejecting from one's nature all that~~ An integral purification is ~~egoistic or of the nature of rajasic desire~~a long and slow labour. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwsa~~cwm/2917/~~purity~~21-june-1935#p2 </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 </ref~~center>~</~~span~~center>

~~If one lives only for~~ purification from desire brings the freedom of the ~~Divine~~ psychic prana, purification from wrong emotions and by troubling reactions the ~~Divine~~freedom of the heart, ~~there follows~~ 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 ~~perfect purity~~larger and more essential character; it is an opening out of mortal limitation into the illimitable immortality of the Spirit. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1424/~~purity~~the-liberation-of-the-spirit#p5p1 </ref~~></span~~>

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

~~Sri Aurobindo does not use~~ The systematic purification of the ~~word purity~~ whole being for an integral reflection and taking in of the divine reality can only be done by the ~~ordinary moral sense~~special methods of Yoga. ~~For him, "purity" means "exclusively under~~ Its absolute concentration has to take the place of the ~~influence~~ dispersed concentrations of the ~~Divine"~~lower knowledge; the vague and ineffective identification which is all the lower knowledge can bring, ~~expressing only~~ has to be replaced by the ~~Divine~~complete, intimate, imperative and living union which Yoga brings. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1023/~~aphorism~~the-~~282~~higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p2 p9</ref~~></span~~>

<~~span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"~~center>To be pure, what does it mean? One is truly perfectly pure only when the whole being, in all its elements and all its movements, adheres fully, exclusively, to the divine Will. This indeed is total purity. It does not depend on any moral or social law, any mental convention of any kind. It depends exclusively on this: when all the elements and all the movements of the being adhere exclusively ~</~~span>and totally to the divine Will. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-december-1954#p18 </ref></span~~center>

~~And yet for~~ ...you must add the ~~sake~~ Force of ~~completeness it should be added~~ spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that ~~because man is a mental being, he must necessarily~~ 's in the ~~course of his evolution leave behind~~ least destructive can survive there. If you have this ~~unconscious~~ Force at your disposal or if you can ask for it and get it, you direct it on the spot and ~~spontaneous purity~~the adverse force usually runs away immediately, ~~which is very similar~~ for if it happens to be in the ~~purity~~ midst of ~~the animal~~this Force it gets dissolved, ~~and after passing through an unavoidable period~~ it disappears; for no force of ~~mental perversion~~ disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and ~~impurity~~with it that also disappears. It can be changed into a constructive force, ~~rise beyond~~ that is possible, or it may be simply dissolved and reduced to nothing. And with that not only is the ~~mind into the higher and luminous purity~~ illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the ~~divine consciousness~~illness once for all, it never comes back. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1005/~~aphorism~~22-30july-1953#p6 p62</ref~~></span~~>

Purity is perfect sincerity and one cannot have it unless the being is entirely consecrated to the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p6</ref>''' Purification before Perfection '''

~~Purity or impurity depends upon the consciousness;~~ The world will be made better only in proportion as we make ourselves better. The Vedantic truth that the ~~divine~~ world is only a projection—a function—of our consciousness ~~everything~~ is ~~pure, in~~ as pragmatically true as it is spiritually true. The ills that humanity suffers from—collectively and individually—stem from the ~~ignorance everything is subject to impurity, not~~ errors that lie at the ~~body only or part~~ roots of our ignorant nature. We must be cleansed of these evils—individually first of ~~the body, but mind and vital and all~~all—if we ever hope to see a clean world outside. ~~Only the~~ A yoga of self ~~and~~ -purification is the ~~psychic being remain always pure~~condition precedent to a yoga of perfection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwsa~~cwm/2914/~~purity~~helping-others-and-the-world#~~p16~~p23</ref~~></span~~>

~~== What does Buddhism say about Purity? ==~~''' Aspiration for Purification '''

~~That was the wisdom of the Buddha who spoke of "the Middle Way": neither too much of this nor too much of that~~The aspiration must be for entire purification, 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>especially

So too the word "impurity". Pure, as it is understood morally, has not at all the meaning it is given in a truly spiritual teaching; and particularly *purification from ~~the Buddhist standpoint, purity is absence of ignorance, as I have already told you last time~~sex, so that no sex imaginations may enter and ~~ignorance means ignoring the inner law,~~ the ~~truth of the being. And loyalty means not to take the illusion for the reality~~sex impulse may cease, ~~the changing and fluctuating appearances for the inner and real permanence of the being. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p62 </ref>~~

~~= Object of Purity =~~*purification from desires and demands,

~~The object~~ *purification from depression which is the result of ~~purification~~ disappointed desires.It is ~~to make~~ the ~~whole mental being a clear mirror~~ most important for you. Particularly what you must aspire for is peace in ~~which~~ all the ~~divine reality can be reflected~~being, complete equanimity, ~~a clear vessel~~ samata. The feeling that peace is not enough must go. Peace and ~~an unobstructing channel into which the divine presence~~ purity and ~~through which~~ equanimity once established, all the ~~divine influence can~~ rest must be ~~poured, a subtilised stuff which~~ the ~~divine nature can take possession of~~Mother’s free gift, ~~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~~ not a ~~channel only for the disorders~~ result of the ~~ignorant lower nature and full of obstructions and impurities which prevent the higher~~ demand from ~~acting; therefore~~ the ~~whole shape of our~~ being is deformed and imperfect, indocile to the highest influences and turned in its action to ignorant and inferior utilities. It reflects even the world falsely; it is incapable of reflecting the Divine. <ref> ~~http~~https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2329/~~the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge~~purity#p6 p5</ref~~></span~~>

= ~~Purity in Relation to other Qualities~~ = Object of Purification ==

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

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>~</~~span~~center>

~~== Perfection~~ 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>

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

~~It~~ As is ~~only by a very persistent effort that one can succeed~~ said 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~~Upanishads, ~~a perfect perfection seem impossible so long as~~ our whole mind-consciousness is shot through with the ~~world has not reached at least a certain degree~~ threads and currents of ~~perfection. Even the ascetic~~this Prana, ~~the solitary~~this Life-energy that strives and limits, ~~who goes~~ grasps and ~~sits in a cave or under a tree or in the jungle~~misses, ~~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~~desires and suffers, ~~the food he eats, whatever it may be, even if it is reduced to the minimum, contains the vibrations of the world;~~ and ~~so, it is enough for him to exist to be in solidarity with the difficulties of the world~~only by its purification can we know and possess our real and eternal self. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0623/29the-release-from-the-~~december~~heart-~~1954~~and-the-mind#p5 p4</ref~~></span~~>

~~If there~~ Why Purification 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 the soul of desire, which in quietistic disciplines leads to a supreme peace; for then the spirit appears in all the eternal purity of its immaculate essence. That gained, there would be nothing farther to be enjoyed or done. But here we have the more difficult problem of a total, unabated, even an increased and more powerful action founded on perfect bliss of the being, the purity of the soul's instrumental as well as the spirit's essential nature. Mind, heart, life, body are to do the works of the Divine, all the works which they do now and yet more, but to do them divinely, as now they do not do them. This is the first appearance of the problem before him on which the seeker of perfection has to lay hold, that it is not a negative, prohibitory, passive or quietistic, but a positive, affirmative, active purity which is his object. A divine quietism discovers the immaculate eternity of the Spirit, a divine kinetism adds to it the right pure undeviating action of the soul, mind and body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p1</ref>Important? =

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, loveNo protection, 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; Grace can save those who refuse 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 indispensable purification ~~is the first necessity~~. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwsa~~cwm/2408/~~the-instruments~~15-~~of-the~~august-~~spirit~~1956#p2p6</ref~~></span~~>

In other words, purification must not be understood in any limited sense of a selection of certain outward kinetic movements, their regulation, With the ~~inhibition of other action or a~~ inner liberation ~~of certain forms of character or particular mental and moral capacities. These things are secondary signs of our derivative being~~, ~~not essential powers~~ with a total sincerity 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~~perfect purity, ~~find out their basic defect of impurity or wrong action and correct that~~all suffering will disappear, ~~sure that~~ because it will no longer be necessary for the ~~rest will then come right naturally. We have not to doctor symptoms~~ progress of ~~impurity, or that only secondarily, as a minor help, but to strike at~~ the consciousness towards its ~~roots after a deeper diagnosis~~final goal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwsa~~cwm/2403/the-~~instruments-of-the-spirit~~fool#p2p21</ref~~></span~~>

== ~~Aspiration and Purity~~ = Beauty ===

Pure sense of beauty can be acquired only through a great purification. <~~span style="background-color:transparent;color~~ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/beauty#~~000000;">The aspiration must be for entire purification, especially~~ p14</~~span~~ref>

The preoccupation with universal beauty even in its aesthetic forms has an intense power for refining and subtilising the nature, and at its highest it is a great force for purification. <~~span style="background~~ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-~~color:transparent;color:#000000;">(1) purification from sex, so that no sex imaginations may enter~~ and -the ~~sex impulse may cease,~~ -lower-knowledge#p8</~~span~~ref>

~~(2) purification from desires and demands, ~~== Calm ===

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. <~~span style="background~~ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-~~color:transparent;color:#000000;">(3) purification from depression which is~~ the ~~result~~ -need-of ~~disappointed desires.~~ -purification#p50</~~span~~ref>

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

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

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

~~There~~ 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 issupple 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, ~~besides~~again, when it seeks to clothe itself in words, must find in you a ~~marvellous joy~~ 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 ~~being sincere. Every act~~ all your feelings, all your acts of ~~sincerity carries~~ will, all your actions, in ~~itself its own reward:~~ all the ~~feeling~~ movements of ~~purification~~your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, ~~of soaring upwards~~by constant effort, ~~of liberation one gets when one has rejected even one tiny particle of falsehood~~attain their highest perfection. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0812/19the-science-~~december~~of-~~1956~~living#~~p31~~p6 </ref~~></span~~>

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

~~<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;~~">In this way~~ it is for ever pure, not ~~necessary to introduce~~ 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 ~~principle~~ faults of ~~love into~~ the ~~explanation~~eye of vision. ~~But~~ 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 ~~you want~~ the working of the spirit is to ~~know~~ be a perfect working and not marked by its present greater or ~~understand~~ less concession to the devious pleasure of the lower nature . What is ordinarily called purity of the ~~Force~~ 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 ~~Power that enables~~ highest negative or ~~brings about this transformation—particularly where evil is concerned~~passive purity, the entire God-content, inaction, ~~but also with ugliness to a certain extent—you see that love is obviously~~ the ~~most potent~~ complete stilling of the vibrant mind and ~~integral~~ the soul of ~~all powers—integral~~ desire, which in quietistic disciplines leads to a supreme peace; for then the ~~sense that it applies~~ spirit appears in all ~~cases~~the eternal purity of its immaculate essence. ~~It is~~ That gained, there would be nothing farther to be enjoyed or done. But here we have the more difficult problem of a total, unabated, even an increased and more powerful ~~than~~ action founded on perfect bliss of the being, the ~~power~~ purity of ~~purification which dissolves all bad will and which is~~the soul's instrumental as well as the spirit's essential nature. Mind, heart, ~~as it were~~life, body are to do the ~~master~~ works of the ~~adverse forces~~Divine, all the works which they do now and yet more, but ~~which has~~ to do them divinely, as now they do not do them. This is the ~~direct power~~ first appearance of ~~transformation. The power~~ the problem before him on which the seeker of ~~purification first dissolves in order~~ perfection has to ~~allow the transformation afterwards. It destroys one form in order to be able to create a better one~~lay hold, ~~whereas love need not dissolve in order to transform;~~ that it ~~possesses the direct power of transformation. Love~~ is ~~like~~ not a negative, prohibitory, passive or quietistic, but a ~~flame that changes what~~ positive, affirmative, active purity which is ~~hard into something malleable and even sublimates this malleable thing into~~ his object. A divine quietism discovers the immaculate eternity of the Spirit, a ~~kind~~ divine kinetism adds to it the right pure undeviating action of ~~purified vapour—it does not destroy~~the soul, ~~it transforms~~mind and body. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1024/~~aphorism~~the-instruments-of-the-49spirit#~~p12~~ p1</ref~~></span~~>

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

~~== Concentration~~ 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 ~~Purity ==~~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>

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>== Manifestation ===

~~== Instinct~~ 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>

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

~~== Faith~~ 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>

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

~~== Surrender~~ 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>

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

~~There are two possibilities, one of purification by personal effort, which takes a long time, another by~~ ... the main need is a ~~direct intervention~~ certain preparation of the ~~Divine Grace which is usually rapid in its action. For the latter there must~~ consciousness so that it may be ~~a complete surrender~~ able to respond more and ~~self-giving~~ more freely to the higher Force. In this preparation many things are useful—the poetry and music you are doing can help, for ~~that again usually~~ it ~~is necessary to have~~ acts as a ~~mind that can remain quite quiet~~ sort of śravaṇa and ~~allow~~ manana, even, if the ~~Divine Force to act supporting it with its complete adhesion at every step~~feeling roused is intense, ~~but otherwise remaining still and quiet~~a sort of natural nididhyāsana. ~~This last condition which resembles~~ Psychic preparation, clearing out of the ~~baby cat attitude spoken~~ grosser forms of ~~by Ramakrishna~~mental and vital ego, ~~is difficult to have. Those who are accustomed to a very active movement of their thought~~ opening mind and ~~will in all they do, find it difficult~~ heart to ~~still~~ the ~~activity~~ Guru and ~~adopt the quietude of mental self-giving. This does~~ many other things help greatly—it is not ~~mean that they cannot do~~ perfection or a complete freedom from the ~~Yoga~~ dualities or ~~cannot arrive at self-giving—only~~ ego that is the ~~purification and the self-giving take~~ indispensable preliminary, but preparedness, a ~~long time to accomplish and one must have~~ fineness of the ~~patience~~ inner being which makes spiritual responses and ~~steady perseverance and resolution to go through~~receiving possible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2930/~~surrender~~the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#~~p78~~p37</ref~~></span~~>

== ~~Beauty and Purity~~ Purification of Understanding ==

~~<span style="background-color:transparent~~The first necessity of preparation is the purifying of all the members of our being;~~color:#000000~~especially, for the path of knowledge, the purification of the understanding, the key that shall open the door of Truth;~~">Pure~~ and a purified understanding is hardly possible without the purification of the other members. An unpurified heart, an unpurified sense ~~of beauty can~~ , 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 ~~acquired only through a great purification~~an integral purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1523/~~beauty~~the-purified-understanding#~~p14~~p3</ref~~></span~~>

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

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

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

~~== Truth~~ '''''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~~The will to enjoy is proper to the vital being but not the choice or the reaching after the enjoyment which must be determined and acquired by higher functions;~~color:#000000;">When we are~~ therefore the vital being must be trained to accept whatever gain or enjoyment comes to it in the right functioning of the life in obedience to the ~~presence~~ working of ~~hostile forces, only~~ the ~~purity~~ divine Will and to rid itself of ~~an absolute truth can conquer them~~craving and attachment. ~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/20-july-1935#p7</ref>~~

~~== Calm~~ 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>

~~Purification and calm are~~ mind''''' - The second cause of impurity in the ~~first needs in~~ understanding is the ~~Yoga. One may have a great wealth~~ illusion of ~~experiences of that kind (worlds, visions, voices etc.) without them, but these experiences occurring in an unpurified~~ the senses and ~~troubled consciousness are usually full~~ the intermiscence of ~~disorder and mixture. <ref>http://incarnateword.~~the sense-mind in~~/cwsa/30/~~the~~-danger-of-~~thinking functions. No knowledge can be true knowledge which subjects itself to the~~-ego-~~senses or uses them otherwise than as ﬁrst indices whose data have constantly to be corrected and~~-the-need-of-purification#p50</ref>~~overpassed.

~~In your nature there are many obstacles, chiefly a great activity~~ …the beginning of philosophy is the examination of the ~~outward-going mind and a thick crust~~ principles of things which the senses mistranslate to us; the ~~impure lower Prakriti that covers~~ beginning of spiritual knowledge is the ~~heart and~~ refusal to accept the ~~vital being. Quieting~~ limitations of the ~~mind~~ sense-life or to take the visible and ~~purification~~ sensible as anything more than phenomenon of the ~~nature are what you must have before you can fulfil your aim. Aspire for these two things first; ask for them constantly from above. You will not be able to achieve them by your own unaided effort~~Reality. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/~~purity~~the-purified-understanding#p9p10</ref~~></span~~>

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

~~Peace~~ mind be stilled and ~~purity~~ taught to leave the function of thought to the ~~consciousness are~~ mind that judges and understands. When the ~~very foundation~~ understanding in us stands back from the action of the ~~necessary change~~ sense-mind and repels its intermiscence, the latter detaches itself from the understanding and can be watched in ~~the nature~~its separate action. ~~<ref>http://incarnateword~~It then reveals itself as a constantly swirling and eddying undercurrent of habitual concepts, associations, perceptions, desires without any real sequence, order or principle of light.It is a constant repetition in~~/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p1</ref>~~a circle unintelligent and unfruitful.

~~Peace~~ There is ~~necessary for all; without peace and an increasing purity~~nothing to be done with this fickle, ~~even if one opens~~restless, ~~one cannot receive perfectly all that comes down through~~ violent and disturbing factor but to get rid of it whether by detaching it and then reducing it to stillness or by giving a concentration and singleness to the ~~opening. Light too is necessary for all—without light one cannot take full advantage~~ thought by which it will of ~~all that comes down~~itself reject this alien and confusing element. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2923/~~peace-~~the-~~basis~~purified-~~of-the-sadhana~~understanding#p2p11</ref~~></span~~>

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

~~Neither~~ A third cause of impurity has its source in the understanding itself and consists in an improper action of the ~~complete purification nor~~ will to know. That will is proper to the ~~permanent~~ understanding, but here again choice and ~~perfect manifestation can come all at once, it is a matter of time~~ unequal reaching after knowledge clog and ~~patient progress~~distort. ~~The two (purification~~ They lead to a partiality and ~~manifestation) go on progressing side by side~~ attachment which makes the intellect cling to certain ideas and ~~become~~ opinions with a more or less obstinate will to ignore the truth in other ideas and ~~more strong~~ opinions, cling to ~~play into each~~ certain fragments of a truth and shy against the admission of other~~'s hands—that is~~ parts which are yet necessary to its fullness, cling to certain predilections of knowledge and repel all knowledge that does not agree with the ~~usual course~~ personal temperament of thought which has been acquired by the ~~sadhana. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-~~past of-the~~-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p35</ref>~~thinker.

~~== Transformation~~ 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>

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

~~= Outcome~~ An understanding thus purified would be a perfectly flexible, entire and faultless instrument of ~~Purity =~~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>

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

~~= Why Purity? =~~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.

~~A certain amount of purification is necessary before there can be any realisation of~~ *No pretence with oneself *No concealment from the Divine ~~and that is what has been going on in you. It is after all not a very long time since~~ or oneself or the ~~real purification began~~ Guru*A straight look at one's nature and ~~it is never an easy work. So the impatience may be natural, but it is not exactly reasonable. <ref>http://incarnateword~~one's movements*A straight will to make them straight.~~in/cwsa/29/purity#p1</ref>~~

~~You~~ one must be ~~good for~~ prepared to make it one's whole life-task to seek the ~~love of goodness, you must be just for~~ Divine. Purifying the ~~love of justice~~heart means after all a pretty considerable achievement and it is no use getting despondent, ~~you must~~ despairful etc. because one finds things in oneself that still need to be ~~pure for the love of purity and you must be disinterested for the love of disinterestedness; then you are sure to advance on the way~~changed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0330/~~impurity~~the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#~~p32~~p42</ref~~></span~~>

~~= Where is Purity? =~~<center>~</center>

~~The purification~~ 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 ~~central necessity~~very life of the sacrifice. If this offering is to be complete and universal, ~~but~~ then a ~~purification~~ turning of all our emotions to the ~~mind, vital and physical~~ Divine is ~~also called for~~imperative. ~~But~~ This is the ~~most important thing~~ intensest way of purification for ~~purification of~~ 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 ~~an absolute sincerity. No pretence~~ thrown with ~~oneself, no concealment from~~ the Divine ~~or oneself or~~ 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 ~~Guru~~others discard their insufficiencies, till a ~~straight look at one's nature~~ spirit of largest love and ~~one's movements,~~ a ~~straight will to make them straight~~stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense. It ~~does not~~ is the divine love which so ~~much matter if it takes time; one must~~ emerges that, extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be ~~prepared to make it one's whole~~ more potent for the perfectibility of life~~-task to seek~~ and a more real instrument than the ~~Divine~~ineffective mental ideal of brotherhood can ever be. ~~Purifying~~ It is this poured out into acts that could alone create a harmony in the ~~heart means after~~ world and a true unity between all its creatures; all ~~a pretty considerable achievement and it is no use getting despondent, despairful etc. because one finds things~~ else strives in ~~oneself~~ vain towards that ~~still need to be changed~~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/3023/the-~~danger~~ascent-of-the-~~ego-and-the-need~~sacrifice-~~of-purification~~ii#~~p42~~p14</ref~~></span~~>

Whatever may be the past, whatever may be the faults committed, whatever the ignorance in which one might have lived, one carries deep within oneself the supreme purity which can translate itself into a wonderful realisation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-flowers#p20</ref>= Purification of Mind ==

~~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 == Release from Subjection 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</ref>Body ===

~~= How~~ We say then to ~~Purify? =~~the mind “This is a working of Prakriti, this is neither thyself nor myself; stand back from it.” We shall find, if we try, that the mind has this power of detachment and can stand back from the body not only in idea, 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 body; we must not care essentially about its sleep or its waking, its movement or its rest, its pain or its pleasure, 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 body in 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 not either to be affected in mind by hunger or thirst or discomfort or ill-health or attach the importance which the physical and vital man attaches to the things of the body, or indeed any but a quite subordinate and purely instrumental importance. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p2</ref>

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>~</~~span~~center>

~~The systematic purification of~~ Thus disciplined the ~~whole being for an integral reflection and taking in of~~ mind will gradually learn to take up towards the ~~divine reality can only be done by~~ body the ~~special methods~~ true attitude of ~~Yoga~~the Purusha. ~~Its absolute concentration has to take~~ First of all, it will know the mental Purusha as the ~~place~~ upholder of the ~~dispersed concentrations of~~ body and not in any way the ~~lower knowledge~~body itself; for it is quite other than the ~~vague and ineffective identification~~ physical existence which ~~is all~~ it upholds by the mind through the ~~lower knowledge can bring, has to be replaced by~~ agency of the ~~complete, intimate, imperative and living union which Yoga brings~~vital force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-~~higher~~release-from-subjection-~~and~~to-the-~~lower-knowledge~~body#p9p3</ref~~></span~~>

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>~</~~span~~center>

~~It has been seen that a most effective way~~ Secondly, with regard to the movements and experiences of ~~purification is for~~ the ~~mental~~ body the mind will come to know the Purusha ~~to draw back~~seated within it as, first, ~~to stand as~~ the ~~passive~~ witness or observer of the movements and ~~observe and know himself and~~ , secondly, the ~~workings~~ knower or perceiver of ~~Nature~~ the experiences. It will cease to consider in thought or feel in ~~the lower, the normal being;~~ sensation these movements and experiences as its own but ~~this must be combined~~rather consider and feel them as not its own, ~~for perfection, with a will to raise~~ as operations of Nature governed by the ~~purified nature into the higher spiritual being~~qualities of Nature and their interaction upon each other. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/the-~~action~~release-offrom-subjection-to-the-~~divine-shakti~~body#p7p4</ref~~></span~~>

<~~span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"~~center>...you must add the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. If you have this Force at your disposal or if you can ask for it and get it, you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately, for if it happens to be in the midst of this Force it gets dissolved, it ~disappears; for no force of 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></spancenter>

~~= Purification~~ Finally, the mind will come to know the Purusha in the mind as the master of ~~Various Qualities =~~Nature whose sanction is necessary to her movements. It will find that as the giver of the sanction he can withdraw the original fiat from the previous habits of Nature and that eventually the habit will cease or change in the direction indicated by the will of the Purusha; not at once, for the old sanction persists as an obstinate consequence of the past Karma of Nature until that is exhausted, and a good deal also depends on the force of the habit and the idea of fundamental necessity which the mind had previously attached to it; but if it is not one of the fundamental habits Nature has established for the relation of the mind, life and body and if the old sanction is not renewed by the mind or the habit willingly indulged, then eventually the change will come. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p5</ref>

== ~~Purification of Ambition~~ = Release from the Heart and the Mind ===

~~<span style="background~~... the ascending soul has to separate itself not only from the life in the body but from the action of the life-~~color:transparent~~energy in the mind;~~color:#000000~~it has to make the mind say as the representative of the Purusha “I am not the Life;~~">And so~~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, ~~purification~~ which is associated with the all-pervading phenomenon of ~~experience means~~ 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 ~~make~~ the ~~experience sincere~~ mind which perceives and ~~motiveless~~accepts them. To They take ~~away all one's motives~~ the form of ~~ambition and vanity~~action, of desireand of liking and disliking, ~~power, etc~~pleasure and pain. ~~This~~ The Prana is ~~called purifying~~ everywhere in us supporting not only the ~~experience~~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, ~~making~~ it ~~sincere~~limits, ~~spontaneous~~ it throws into discord their right action and ~~not mixing it with desires~~ creates that impurity of misplacement and ~~ambitions~~that tangled confusion which is the whole evil of our psychological existence. ~~There are spiritual ambitions~~In that confusion one law seems to reign, ~~he speaks~~ the law of ~~them, and these are even the most dangerous~~desire. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0723/12the-release-from-the-heart-and-~~january~~the-~~1955~~mind#~~p34~~p1</ref~~></span~~>

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

~~The first necessity of preparation is the purifying of all the members of our being; especially~~mind. He has to say “I am not this thing that struggles and suffers, ~~for the path of knowledge~~grieves and rejoices, ~~the purification of the understanding~~loves and hates, ~~the key that shall open the door of Truth;~~ hopes and ~~a purified understanding~~ is ~~hardly possible without the purification of the other members. An unpurified heart, an unpurified sense, an unpurified life confuse the understanding, disturb its data, distort its conclusions~~baffled, ~~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~~ is an interdependence; for the purification 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 calm and light on the turbid angry 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 afraid and ~~disordered being~~ cheerful and ~~most sovereignly imposes their right working on his other members. Knowledge~~depressed, ~~says the Gita, is the sovereign purity; light is the source~~ a thing of ~~all clearness~~ vital moods and ~~harmony even as the darkness of ignorance is the cause of all our stumblings~~emotional passions. ~~Love, for example, is the purifier of the heart~~ All these are merely workings and ~~by reducing all our emotions into terms~~ habits of ~~divine love~~ Prakriti in the ~~heart is perfected~~ sensational and ~~fulfilled; yet love itself needs to be clarified by divine knowledge~~emotional mind. ” The ~~heart's love of God may be blind, narrow and ignorant and lead to fanaticism~~ mind then draws back from its emotions and ~~obscurantism; it may~~becomes with these, ~~even when otherwise pure, limit our perfection by refusing to see Him except in a limited personality and by recoiling from~~ as with the ~~true and infinite vision. The heart's love of man may equally lead to distortions~~ bodily movements and ~~exaggerations in feeling~~experiences, ~~action and knowledge which have to be corrected and prevented by~~ the ~~purification of the understanding~~observer or witness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-~~purified~~release-from-the-heart-and-the-~~understanding~~mind#p3p6</ref~~></span~~>

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

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

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

~~"All conditioned things are~~ ... the emotional mind compelled to take note of all these discords and subject itself to ~~suffering." When one has seen that by realisation~~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, ~~he is delivered from sorrow. That~~ revenge and all the stupendous play of passion which is the ~~Path~~ drama of ~~purity~~life in the world. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0323/the-~~path~~release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p6p3</ref~~></span~~>

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

~~Life~~ There is ~~hard for~~ this emotional mind in which these moods and passions continue to occur according to the ~~modest one who seeks purity, who~~ habit of the modes of Nature and there is ~~detached~~the observing mind which sees them, ~~unassuming~~ studies and ~~whose judgment~~ understands but is ~~correct~~detached from them. ~~<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p12 </ref>~~

~~Purity must be our aim~~It observes them as if in a sort of action and play on a mental stage of personages other than itself, at first with interest and a habit of relapse into identification, then with entire calm and detachment, and, finally, attaining not only to calm but ~~not~~ to the ~~purity~~ pure delight of its own silent existence, with a ~~void or~~ smile at their unreality as at the imaginary joys and sorrows of a ~~bleak~~ child who is playing and ~~rigid coldness. <ref>http://incarnateword.~~loses himself in~~/cwsa/23/~~the~~-master-of-the-work#p7</ref>~~play.

~~There was a third thing?... Yes~~Secondly, ~~you must not cherish~~ it becomes aware of itself as master of the ~~illusion that if you want~~ sanction who by his withdrawal of sanction can make this play to ~~follow~~ cease. When the ~~straight path~~sanction is withdrawn, ~~if you are modest~~another significant phenomenon takes place; the emotional mind becomes normally calm and pure and free from these reactions, ~~if you seek purity~~and even when they come, ~~if you~~ they no longer rise from within but seem to fall on it as impressions from outside to which its fibres are ~~disinterested, if you want~~ still able to ~~lead a solitary existence~~ respond; but this habit of response dies away and ~~have a clear judgment, things will become easy.... It~~ the emotional mind is ~~quite~~ in time entirely liberated from the ~~contrary! When you begin to advance towards inner~~ passions which it has renounced. Hope and fear, joy and grief, liking and disliking, attraction and repulsion, content and discontent, gladness and ~~outer perfection~~depression, horror and wrath and fear and disgust and shame and the ~~difficulties start at~~ passions of love and hatred fall away from the ~~same time~~liberated psychic being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/0323/~~impurity~~the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#~~p29~~p6</ref~~></span~~>

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

~~No protection~~Desire is at once the motive of our actions, ~~no Grace can save those who refuse~~ our lever of accomplishment and the ~~indispensable purification. <ref>http://incarnateword~~bane of our existence.~~in/cwm/08/15~~If our sense-~~august~~mind, emotional mind, thought-~~1956#p6</ref>~~mind could act free from the intrusions and importations of the life-energy, if that energy could be made to obey their right action instead of imposing its own yoke on our existence, all human problems would move harmoniously to their right solution.

~~= Forms~~ The proper function of ~~Purity =~~the life-energy is to do what it is bidden by the divine principle in us, to reach to and enjoy what is given to it by that indwelling Divine and not to desire at all.

~~== Integral Purity ==~~The proper function of the sense-mind is to lie open passively, luminously to the contacts of Life and transmit their sensations and the rasa or right taste and principle of delight in them to the higher function; <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p2</ref> <center>~</center> The desire-mind must also be rejected from the instrument of thought and this is best done by the detachment of the Purusha from thought and opinion itself. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p9</ref>

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

~~An integral purification~~ mind is to observe, understand, judge with a ~~long~~ dispassionate delight in knowledge and open itself to messages and ~~slow labour~~illuminations 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/~~cwm~~cwsa/1723/21the-release-from-the-heart-and-~~june~~the-~~1935~~mind#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</ref~~center>~</~~span~~center>

~~The divine existence is~~ mind will be the same as with all the rest of the ~~nature not only of freedom~~being. 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 liberty~~thought-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-world~~his 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 Yoga~~utter silence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-~~synthesis~~release-offrom-the-heart-and-the-~~systems~~mind#~~p19~~p9</ref~~></span~~>

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

~~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 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-others~~But a much more radical deliverance, not only from egoism but from ego-idea andego-~~the-world#p23</ref>~~sense, is needed if our aim is to raise human into divine nature.

~~== Divine Purity ==~~The ego is by its nature a smallness of being; it brings contraction of the consciousness and with the contraction limitation of knowledge, disabling ignorance,—confinement and a diminution of power and by that diminution incapacity and weakness,—scission of oneness and by that scission disharmony and failure of sympathy and love and understanding,—inhibition or fragmentation of delight of being and by that fragmentation pain and sorrow. To recover what is lost we must break out of the walls of ego. The ego must either disappear in impersonality or fuse into a larger I: it must fuse into the wider cosmic “I” which comprehends all these smaller selves or the transcendent of which even the cosmic self is a diminished image. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p2</ref>

~~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>~~not Collective Existence'''''

~~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 simplicity~~the world’s thought and ethics; but this is a mental and moral and not a spiritual ideal. For that progress is a series of constant mental, vital and physical vicissitudes, it has no firm spiritual content, and offers no sure standing-ground to the soul of man. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1423/~~purity~~the-release-from-the-ego#~~p16~~p3</ref~~></span~~>

For it should be said, surely, that purity as conceived on earth has nothing to do with divine purity. At the best it is an approximation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/14-april-1954#p19</ref>'''''Elimination of Ego'''''

~~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 purity~~says of all or any of them, “This is I”. ~~The divine purity~~Not only do we, at as in the ~~lowest~~way 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 ~~Divine~~sole 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 Him~~expressions of our being for our true self and spirit. ~~<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-63-64-65#p31</ref>~~

We are the deforming intermediary between the purity of the animal and the divine purity of the gods. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/19-july-1958#p13</ref>'''''Release also from Elusive Ego'''''

~~== Ascetic Purity ==~~But even if all this has been done, something remains still; there remains a substratum of all these, a general sense of the separate I. This substratum ego is something vague, indefinable, elusive; it does not or need not attach itself to anything in particular as the self; it does not identify itself with anything collective; it is a sort of fundamental form or power of the mind which compels the mental being to feel himself as a perhaps indefinable but still a limited being which is not mind, life or body, but under which their activities proceed in Nature. And because it seems to be above or behind the play and not in it, because it does not say “I am the mind, life or body,” but “I am a being on whom the action of mind, life and body depends,” many think themselves released and mistake this elusive Ego for the One, the Divine, the true Purusha or at the very least for the true Person within them,—mistaking the indefinable for the Infinite. But so long as this fundamental ego-sense remains, there is no absolute release. The egoistic life, even if diminished in force and intensity, can still continue well enough with this support. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p5</ref>

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>~</~~span~~center>

~~== Moral Versus Spiritual Purification ==~~It is imperative to go farther, to get rid of this indefinable but fundamental ego-sense also and get back to the Purusha on whom it is supporting itself, of whom it is a shadow; the shadow has to disappear and by its disappearance reveal the spirit’s unclouded substance. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p5</ref>

~~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 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>The Jiva'''''

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

~~Mental purity: a mirror which does not distort. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p11</ref>~~'''''Goal for the seeker of Integral Knowledge'''''

~~Perfect mental purity:~~ as a ~~spotless mirror constantly turned towards~~ seeker of knowledge it is the ~~Divine~~integral knowledge and not anything either half-way and attractive or high-pinnacled and exclusive he must seek. ~~<ref> http://incarnateword~~He must soar to the utmost height, but also circle and spread to the most all-embracing wideness, not binding himself to any rigid structure of metaphysical thought, but free to admit and combine all the soul’s highest and greatest and fullest and most numerous experiences. If the highest height of spiritual experience, the sheer summit of all realisation is the absolute union of the soul with the Transcendent who exceeds the individual and the universe, the widest scope of that union is the discovery of that very Transcendent as the source, support, continent, informing and constituent spirit and substance of both these manifesting powers of the divine Essence and the divine Nature. Whatever the path, this must be for him the goal.~~in/cwm/14/purity#p12 </ref>~~

~~Integral mental purity: silent~~One he must be with the Divine both in his highest and inmost and in his widest being and consciousness, ~~attentive~~in his work, ~~receptive~~his 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 purity~~illusion of separate being and instrumentality. ~~<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p13 </ref>~~

~~== <span style="background~~Obeying the necessity to withdraw successively from the practical egoism of our triple nature and its fundamental ego-~~color:transparent~~sense, 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;~~color~~the 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 Purity~~p7</~~span~~ref> ==

<~~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~~ ~</~~ref~~center>

~~It~~ the truth is ~~therefore no integral Yoga that kills these vital energies~~always 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 purification~~the cosmic play, ~~not their destruction~~then even in full action,~~—their transformation~~even 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 us~~released from the ego. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-~~three~~release-~~steps~~from-ofthe-~~nature~~ego#p6p11</ref~~></span~~>

~~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>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</ref~~center>~</~~span~~center>

~~<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 ~~desires~~entire truth and correctness in an experience; it is only purity of the ~~true condition for good health~~consciousness that can give an entire truth and correctness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1430/the-~~body~~danger-of-the-ego-and-the-~~physical~~need-of-purification#~~p20~~p42</ref~~></span~~>

= ~~Impurities~~ = Key to Purification ==

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>== Love ===

~~…  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 confusion~~explanation. ~~One is a defect born of~~ But if you want to know or understand the nature of ~~our past evolution~~the 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 being~~sense that it applies in all cases. ~~The other impurity~~ It is ~~born of~~ even more powerful than the ~~successive process~~ power of ~~an evolution~~purification which dissolves all bad will and which is, ~~where life emerges in and depends on body~~as it were, ~~mind emerges in and depends on life in~~ the ~~body, supermind emerges in and lends itself to instead~~ master of ~~governing mind~~the 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 imperfections~~transformation afterwards. ~~This second defect of our nature is caused by this dependence of the higher on the lower parts~~It 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 ~~embarrassment~~purified vapour—it does not destroy, ~~wrong direction and confusion~~it transforms. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwsa~~cwm/2410/~~the~~aphorism-~~instruments-of-the-spirit~~49#p3p12 </ref~~></span~~>

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>~</~~span~~center>

~~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 heart~~disinterested 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 weakness~~wrongly... 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-~~february~~july-~~1956~~1934#p5 p3</ref~~></span~~>

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>== Surrender ===

~~== Ego ==~~There are two possibilities, one of purification by personal effort, which takes a long time, another by a direct intervention of the Divine Grace which is 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 the Divine Force to act supporting it with its complete adhesion at every step, but otherwise remaining still and quiet. This last condition which resembles the baby cat attitude spoken of by Ramakrishna, is difficult to have. Those who are accustomed to a very active movement of their thought and will in all they do, find it difficult to still the activity and adopt the quietude of mental self-giving. This does not mean that they cannot do the Yoga or cannot arrive at self-giving—only the purification and the self-giving take a long time to accomplish and one must have the patience and steady perseverance and resolution to go through. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p78</ref

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 ==

~~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 elevation~~Divine—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 deliverance~~were 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 nature~~do it. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwsa~~cwm/2314/~~the~~opinions-~~release-from-the~~of-~~ego~~others#p2 p24</ref~~> </span~~>

As is said in the Upanishads, our whole mind-consciousness is shot through with the threads and currents of this Prana, this Life-energy that strives and limits, grasps and misses, desires and suffers, and only by its purification can we know and possess our real and eternal self. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p4</ref>'''Writing'''

~~= 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>

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 </ref>'''Instrument for Purification'''

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

= Symbols of Purity =

== '''Water ==''' The water is the symbol of the power of purification and no hostile being or force can resist this power handled with goodwill and sincerity. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p151 </ref> '''Frankincense''' Frankincense: purification of the vital. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/christmas-messages#p51</ref> '''Agni ''' Agni: the flame of purification which must precede all contact with the invisible worlds. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/will#p18</ref>

~~The water is~~ If you had understood and reacted in the right way, you would have passed the ~~symbol~~ 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 ~~power~~ white flame of purification ~~and no hostile being~~ to chase from inside you the intruder. 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-divine or ~~force can resist this power handled with goodwill and sincerity~~even to all ordinary human movement.~~~~ <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1215/~~arts~~adverse-forces#~~p151~~ p35</ref>

<~~span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"~~center>~~'''2. Frankincense'''~~~</~~span~~center>

~~Frankincense:~~ No wall at all—only the pure light, the white flame of purification ~~of the vital~~penetrating right through, from outside inside, from inside outside. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/~~christmas~~adverse-~~messages~~forces#~~p51~~p37 </ref~~></span~~>

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

~~Agni:~~ when the vital no longer covers the psychic, then the ~~flame~~ rose colour of ~~purification which must precede all contact with~~ the ~~invisible worlds~~psychic comes out more and more. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1430/~~will~~sun-moon-star-fire#~~p18~~p38</ref~~></span~~>

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 to chase from inside you the intruder. 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-divine or even to all ordinary human movement. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p35</refcenter>~</~~span~~center>

~~No wall at all—only~~ It is the purification of the ~~pure light,~~ physical that is usually indicated in the ~~white flame~~ symbol of ~~purification penetrating right through, from outside inside, from inside outside~~burning. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/~~cwm~~cwsa/1530/~~adverse~~sun-moon-star-~~forces~~fire#~~p37~~ p39</ref~~></span~~>

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

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

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

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

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

<~~span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">White indicates a force of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/colours#p13</ref~~center>~</~~span~~center>

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

~~= Recommended practices =~~

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

~~== Writing ==~~

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

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

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

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