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<div style="text-align:center;color:#000000;">Purification</div>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>
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[https://docsThis is purity, to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.tok488tfasa4 What is Purification?][https<ref> http://docsincarnateword.google.comin/documentcwm/d14/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/editpurity#heading=h.tok488tfasa4 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0p2 </edit#heading=h.tok488tfasa4 3]ref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"center>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.by6x1j55kihn What does Buddhism say about Purity?][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.by6x1j55kihn ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.by6x1j55kihn 4]~</divcenter>
[https://docsSri Aurobindo does not use the word purity in the ordinary moral sense.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=hFor him, "purity" means "exclusively under the influence of the Divine", expressing only the Divine.kkouedmor4hj Object of Purity][https<ref> http://docs.googleincarnateword.com/documentin/dcwm/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk010/editaphorism-282#heading=h.kkouedmor4hj ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0p2 </edit#heading=h.kkouedmor4hj 5]ref>
[https:<center>~<//docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.lg77ppxl6h4x Purity in Relation to other Qualities][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.lg77ppxl6h4x ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.lg77ppxl6h4x 5]center>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docsTo 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.googleThis indeed is total purity.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=hIt does not depend on any moral or social law, any mental convention of any kind.14vbqg6zx1d5 Knowledge It depends exclusively on this: when all the elements and Purity][https://docsall the movements of the being adhere exclusively and totally to the divine Will.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.14vbqg6zx1d5 ][https<ref> http://docs.googleincarnateword.comin/documentcwm/d06/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit22-december-1954#heading=h.14vbqg6zx1d5 5]p18 </divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"center>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.twbj103gyrj2 Perfection and Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.twbj103gyrj2 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.twbj103gyrj2 5]~</divcenter>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.jilwbv19if4o Aspiration 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 Purity][https://docsluminous purity of the divine consciousness.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.jilwbv19if4o ][https<ref> http://docs.googleincarnateword.comin/documentcwm/d10/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/editaphorism-30#heading=h.jilwbv19if4o 7]p6 </divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"center>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.gvjzboqwwk96 Sincerity and Purification][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.gvjzboqwwk96 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.gvjzboqwwk96 7]~</divcenter>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cmPurity or impurity depends upon the consciousness;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docsin 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.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.o0b7euxddr4z Love Only the self and Purity][https://docsthe psychic being remain always pure.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.o0b7euxddr4z ][https<ref>http://docs.googleincarnateword.com/documentin/dcwsa/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk029/editpurity#heading=h.o0b7euxddr4z 7]p16</divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"center>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.eltsi4yuemj6 Concentration and Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.eltsi4yuemj6 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.eltsi4yuemj6 8]~</divcenter>
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. <div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"ref>[httpshttp://docs.googleincarnateword.comin/documentcwm/d03/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.cdfycjh99nkd Instinct and Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.cdfycjh99nkd ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/editthe-flowers#heading=h.cdfycjh99nkd 8]p20</divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.zcmgm4ni7t36 Faith and '''Perfect Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.zcmgm4ni7t36 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.zcmgm4ni7t36 9]</div>'''
If one lives only for the Divine and by the Divine, there follows a perfect purity. <div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"ref>[httpshttp://docs.googleincarnateword.com/documentin/dcwm/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk014/editpurity#heading=h.nq15gpxgif5r Surrender and Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.nq15gpxgif5r ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.nq15gpxgif5r 9]p5</divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"center>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.t93fshxrlsl3 Beauty and Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.t93fshxrlsl3 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.t93fshxrlsl3 9]~</divcenter>
<div style="marginPerfect purity is to be, to be ever more and more, in a self-leftperfecting becoming. One must never pretend that one is:0one must be, spontaneously.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"<ref>[httpshttp://docs.googleincarnateword.comin/documentcwm/d09/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.kwtab0u1hl4n Receptivity and Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit12-june-1957#heading=h.kwtab0u1hl4n ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.kwtab0u1hl4n 10]p11 </divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"center>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.6r9gyquwciw Truth and Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.6r9gyquwciw ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.6r9gyquwciw 10]~</divcenter>
Purity is perfect sincerity and one cannot have it unless the being is entirely consecrated to the Divine. <div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"ref>[httpshttp://docs.googleincarnateword.com/documentin/dcwm/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk014/editpurity#heading=h.624dx3cs1ala Calm and Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.624dx3cs1ala ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.624dx3cs1ala 10]p6</divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"center>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.95t7unperw3k Peace and Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.95t7unperw3k ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.95t7unperw3k 10]~</divcenter>
On earth, true purity is to think as the Divine thinks, to will as the Divine wills, to feel as the Divine feels. <div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"ref>[httpshttp://docs.googleincarnateword.com/documentin/dcwm/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk014/editpurity#heading=h.utmei7zd003 Manifestation and Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.utmei7zd003 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.utmei7zd003 10]p3 </divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.5uzp7gakfz5m Transformation and How Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#headingis Different from =h.5uzp7gakfz5m ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.5uzp7gakfz5m 11]</div>
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.xe958fucqfap Outcome of Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.xe958fucqfap ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.xe958fucqfap 11]Morality ===
[https://docsFor 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.googleThis is one of the big difficulties.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=hAs soon as one speaks of these things, there arises the deformation produced in the consciousness by all the social and moral conventions.ktarhxt05773 Why Purity?][https://docsAs soon as you speak of purity, a moral monument comes in front of you which completely falsifies your notion.googleAnd 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.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=hTo 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.ktarhxt05773 ][https<ref>http://docs.googleincarnateword.comin/documentcwm/d06/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk022-december-1954#p20</edit#heading=h.ktarhxt05773 11]ref>
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.f94ky1dv61cu Where is == Ascetic Purity?][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.f94ky1dv61cu ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.f94ky1dv61cu 11]=
[https://docsOnce 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.googleFrom this point of view it was very instructive First of all this kind of so-called ascetic purity.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=hAscetic 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.u48c4e6yodjo How " He is not allowed to Purify?][httpsinterfere with them. <ref>http://docsincarnateword.google.comin/documentcwm/d10/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/editaphorism-69#heading=h.u48c4e6yodjo ][https:/p8</docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.u48c4e6yodjo 12]ref>
[https:<center>~<//docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.g06upj61tn2 Purification of Various Qualities][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.g06upj61tn2 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.g06upj61tn2 13]center>
Purity must be our aim, but not the purity of a void or of a bleak and rigid coldness. <div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"ref>[httpshttp://docsincarnateword.google.comin/documentcwsa/d23/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.4rbpvzcnmeq4 Purification the-master-of Ambition][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit-the-work#heading=h.4rbpvzcnmeq4 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.4rbpvzcnmeq4 13]p7</div>ref
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.powbmmumq7t7 Purity of Understanding][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.powbmmumq7t7 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#headingTransformation ===h.powbmmumq7t7 13]</div>
[https://docsPurification 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.googleWhat 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).com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=hIt is a putting on of the spiritual consciousness dynamic as well as static in every part of the being down to the subconscient.er3z4ysn32mm Path 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 Purity][https://docsthe vital.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=hIt means a bringing down of Divine Consciousness static and dynamic into all these parts and the entire replacement of the present consciousness by that.er3z4ysn32mm ][https<ref>http://docs.googleincarnateword.comin/documentcwsa/d29/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0transformation-in-the-integral-yoga#p13</edit#heading=h.er3z4ysn32mm 14]ref>
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.fwqe3hmhar8p Forms of = Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#headingin Instruments =h.fwqe3hmhar8p ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.fwqe3hmhar8p 15]
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.m9fruk6qdx8i Integral = Mental Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading ==h.m9fruk6qdx8i ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.m9fruk6qdx8i 15]</div>
<div style="margin-leftMental purity:0a mirror which does not distort.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.1ecdxvyxwxmc Self-Purification][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.1ecdxvyxwxmc ][httpshttp://docsincarnateword.google.comin/documentcwm/d14/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/editpurity#heading=h.1ecdxvyxwxmc 16]p11</divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"center>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.wghorljsqr1t Divine Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.wghorljsqr1t ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.wghorljsqr1t 16]~</divcenter>
<div style="margin-leftPerfect mental purity:0a spotless mirror constantly turned towards the Divine.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.2vqhxt1iny7v Ascetic Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.2vqhxt1iny7v ][httpshttp://docsincarnateword.google.comin/documentcwm/d14/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/editpurity#heading=h.2vqhxt1iny7v 16]p12 </divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"center>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.ut3zhl5yf4yb Moral Versus Spiritual Purification][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.ut3zhl5yf4yb ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.ut3zhl5yf4yb 17]~</divcenter>
<div style="margin-leftIntegral mental purity:0silent, attentive, receptive, concentrated on the Divine―this is the path to purity.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.espblskfttz4 Mental Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.espblskfttz4 ][httpshttp://docsincarnateword.google.comin/documentcwm/d14/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/editpurity#heading=h.espblskfttz4 18]p13 </divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.v9t3gg34kgy9 Mental purity: a mirror which does not distort.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p11][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.v9t3gg34kgy9 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#headingVital Purity ===h.v9t3gg34kgy9 18]</div>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.t4jn8hczggv1 Perfect mental Vital purity: a spotless mirror constantly turned towards it begins with the Divineabolition of desire.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p12][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.t4jn8hczggv1 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.t4jn8hczggv1 18]p14 </divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"center>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.yymy9cp9cx4h Integral mental purity: silent, attentive, receptive, concentrated on the Divine―this is the path to purity.http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p13][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.yymy9cp9cx4h ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.yymy9cp9cx4h 18]~</divcenter>
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. <div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"ref>[httpshttp://docs.googleincarnateword.comin/documentcwsa/d23/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.7em9nn4geyak Vital Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.7em9nn4geyak ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/editthe-three-steps-of-nature#heading=h.7em9nn4geyak 18]p6</divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"center>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.2xeefycpmtja Purity in Health][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.2xeefycpmtja ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.2xeefycpmtja 18]~</divcenter>
[https://docsThe 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.googleOne 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.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.dmbo9gt9alje Impurities][https<ref>http://docsincarnateword.google.com/documentin/dcwsa/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk031/editwrong-movements-of-the-vital#heading=h.dmbo9gt9alje ][https:/p31</docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.dmbo9gt9alje 19]ref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.2fnheyvrm7wo Ego][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.2fnheyvrm7wo ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#headingPurity in Cells ===h.2fnheyvrm7wo 20]</div>
[httpsLight in the cells://docs.googlethe first step towards purity in the cells.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.6c5vlnx4mteg Yoga and Purification][https<ref>http://docsincarnateword.google.com/documentin/dcwm/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk014/editthe-body-the-physical#heading=h.6c5vlnx4mteg ][https:/p19</docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.6c5vlnx4mteg 20]ref>
[https:<center>~<//docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.j4w4t11l6qu7 Symbols of Purity][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.j4w4t11l6qu7 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.j4w4t11l6qu7 21]center>
Purity in the cells cannot be obtained except through conquest of desires; it is the true condition for good health. <div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"ref>[httpshttp://docsincarnateword.google.comin/documentcwm/d14/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/editthe-body-the-physical#heading=h.roucepnzwq9s Water][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.roucepnzwq9s ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.roucepnzwq9s 21]p20</divref>
<div style="margin-left= Integral Purity == Integral purity:0the whole being is purified of the ego.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"<ref>[httpshttp://docsincarnateword.googlein/cwm/14/purity#p9</ref> <center>~</center> Power of integral purity: the power to accept nothing but the divine influence.com<ref>http:/document/dincarnateword.in/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0cwm/edit14/purity#heading=hp10</ref> <center>~</center> The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. An integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer parts, is the condition of an integral liberty. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ananda of all that is in the world seen as symbols of the Divine and the Ananda of that which is not-world. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will in unegoistic action. This integrality also can be attained by the integral Yoga.r9quvj4c0opi Frankincense][https<ref>http://docs.googleincarnateword.comin/documentcwsa/d23/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0the-synthesis-of-the-systems#p19</edit#headingref> == Divine Purity ==h The Divine Purity is a more wide and all-embracing experience than the psychic.r9quvj4c0opi ][https<ref>http://docsincarnateword.google.comin/documentcwsa/d29/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0purity#p15</edit#heading=h.r9quvj4c0opi 21]ref> <center>~</divcenter>
<div style="margin-leftDivine purity:0it is happy just to be, in all simplicity.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.ntwd9jhkwovr Agni][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.ntwd9jhkwovr ][httpshttp://docsincarnateword.google.comin/documentcwm/d14/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/editpurity#heading=h.ntwd9jhkwovr 21]p16</divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"center>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.jr5tvffdqcmk Lamb][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.jr5tvffdqcmk ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.jr5tvffdqcmk 22]~</divcenter>
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. <div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;"ref>[httpshttp://docs.googleincarnateword.comin/documentcwm/d06/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.291ybmy24ioa White][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit14-april-1954#heading=h.291ybmy24ioa ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.291ybmy24ioa 22]p19</divref>
[https:<center>~<//docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.cdk22ocvurgw Recommended practices][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.cdk22ocvurgw ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.cdk22ocvurgw 22]center>
<div style=It is like the word "purity"margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docsone could hold forth interminably on the difference between divine purity and what people call purity.googleThe divine purity, at the lowest, allows no influence other than the divine influence—at the lowest.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=hBut 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.y8ck6k6e2749 Writing][https<ref>http://docsincarnateword.google.comin/documentcwm/d10/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/editaphorism-63-64-65#heading=h.y8ck6k6e2749 ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.y8ck6k6e2749 22]p31</divref>
<div style="margin-left:0.635cm;margin-right:0cm;">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.3kva6g9adcat Instrument for Purification][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.3kva6g9adcat ][https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qqF_oxwQE2qwGCmLBnzjAVh3DVvuvigIhzpSeS4PFk0/edit#heading=h.3kva6g9adcat 22]<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"></spancenter>~</divcenter>
We are the deforming intermediary between the purity of the animal and the divine purity of the gods. <span style="background-colorref>http:transparent;color:#000000;"></span><span style="background/incarnateword.in/cwm/15/19-july-color:transparent;color:1958#000000;">p13</spanref>
= What = Buddhist's view == That was the wisdom of the Buddha who spoke of "the Middle Way": neither too much of this nor too much of that, neither falling into this nor falling into that—a little of everything and a balanced way... but ''pure''. Purity and sincerity are the same thing. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-103-104-105-106-107#p77 </ref> <center>~</center> So too the word "impurity". Pure, as it is understood morally, has not at all the meaning it is given in a truly spiritual teaching; and particularly from the Buddhist standpoint, purity is absence of ignorance, as I have already told you last time, and ignorance means ignoring the inner law, the truth of the being. And loyalty means not to take the illusion for the reality, the changing and fluctuating appearances for the inner and real permanence of the being. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p62 </ref> == Purity in Relation to other Qualities == ''' Perfection and Purity ''' It is only by a very persistent effort that one can succeed in overcoming his difficulties; and yet it seems impossible to cut oneself off completely from one's solidarity with the rest of the world. Therefore a perfect purity, a perfect perfection seem impossible so long as the world has not reached at least a certain degree of perfection. Even the ascetic, the solitary, who goes and sits in a cave or under a tree or in the jungle, cannot completely free himself from solidarity with the rest of the world. The air he breathes is full of all the vibrations of the world, the food he eats, whatever it may be, even if it is reduced to the minimum, contains the vibrations of the world; and so, it is enough for him to exist to be in solidarity with the difficulties of the world. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-december-1954#p5 </ref> ''' Aspiration and Purity ''' It is the most important for you. Particularly what you must aspire for is peace in all the being, complete equanimity, samata. The feeling that peace is not enough must go. Peace and purity and equanimity once established, all the rest must be the Mother's free gift, not a result of the demand from the being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p5</ref> ''' Sincerity and Purification? =''' Sincerity! Sincerity! How sweet is the purity of thy presence! <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/sincerity#p23 </ref> <center>~</center> There is, besides, a marvellous joy in being sincere. Every act of sincerity carries in itself its own reward: the feeling of purification, of soaring upwards, of liberation one gets when one has rejected even one tiny particle of falsehood. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/19-december-1956#p31</ref> ''' Concentration and Purity ''' Along with purity and as a help to bring it about, concentration. Purity and concentration are indeed two aspects, feminine and masculine, passive and active, of the same status of being; purity is the condition in which concentration becomes entire, rightly effective, omnipotent; by concentration purity does its works and without it would only lead to a state of peaceful quiescence and eternal repose. Their opposites are also closely connected; for we have seen that impurity is a confusion of dharmas, a lax, mixed and mutually entangled action of the different parts of the being; and this confusion proceeds from an absence of right concentration of its knowledge on its energies in the embodied Soul. The fault of our nature is first an inert subjection to the impacts of things as they come in upon the mind pell-mell without order or control and then a haphazard imperfect concentration managed fitfully, irregularly with a more or less chance emphasis on this or on that object according as they happen to interest, not the higher soul or the judging and discerning intellect, but the restless, leaping, fickle, easily tired, easily distracted lower mind which is the chief enemy of our progress. In such a condition purity, the right working of the functions, the clear, unstained and luminous order of the being is an impossibility; the various workings, given over to the chances of the environment and external influences, must necessarily run into each other and clog, divert, distract, pervert. Equally, without purity the complete, equal, flexible concentration of the being in right thought, right will, right feeling or secure status of spiritual experience is not possible. Therefore the two must proceed together, each helping the victory of the other, until we arrive at that eternal calm from which may proceed some partial image in the human being of the eternal, omnipotent and omniscient activity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/concentration#p1</ref> ''' Instinct and Purity ''' For the purity of which Sri Aurobindo speaks here is the purity of instinct, that obeys Nature's impulses spontaneously, never calculating, never questioning, never asking whether it is good or bad, whether what one does is right or wrong, whether it is a virtue or a sin, whether the outcome will be favourable or unfavourable. All these notions come into play when the mental ego makes its appearance and begins to take a dominant position in the consciousness and to veil the spontaneity of the soul. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-30#p4</ref> ''' Faith and Purity ''' At every moment all the unforeseen, the unexpected, the unknown is before us―and what happens to us depends mostly on the intensity and purity of our faith. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith#p19</ref> ''' Surrender and Purity '''
Detailed surrender means the surrender of all the details of life, even the smallest and the most insignificant in appearance. And this means to remember the Divine in all circumstances; whatever we think, feel or do, we must do it for Him as a way of coming close to Him, to be more and more what He wants us to be, capable of manifesting His will in perfect sincerity and purity, to be the instruments of His Love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/surrender#p7</ref>
''' Receptivity and Purity '''
<span style=If we call "background-color:transparent;color:#000000;perfect receptivity">Purity means freedom from soil or mixture. The divine Purity is the receptivity that in which there receives only the Divine Influence and no other, it is no mixture of certain—and at the turbid ignorant movements of the lower nature. Ordinarily same time it is perfect purity is used to mean (in the common language) freedom from vital passion and impulse.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2916/purity27-november-1968#p14 http:p2<//incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p14]ref>
''' Truth and Purity '''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Ignorance is not a state When we are in the presence of innocence or hostile forces, only the purity; that is of an old blunder. Only a consciousness full of light absolute truth 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 everythingconquer them.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2916/purity20-july-1935#p19 http:p7<//incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p19]ref>
''' Peace and Purity '''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">All purification is a release, a delivery; for it is a throwing away of limiting, binding, obscuring imperfections Peace and confusions: purification from desire brings the freedom purity of the psychic prana, purification from wrong emotions and troubling reactions consciousness are the freedom very foundation of the heart, purification from the obscuring limited thought of the sense mind the freedom of the intelligence, purification from mere intellectuality the freedom of the gnosis. But all this is an instrumental liberation. The freedom of the soul, mukti, is of a larger and more essential character; it is an opening out of mortal limitation into the illimitable immortality of necessary change in the Spiritnature.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2429/peace-the-liberationbasis-of-the-spiritsadhana#p1 http:<//incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-liberation-of-the-spirit#p1]ref>
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<span style="background-color:transparentPeace is necessary for all;color:#000000;">Perfect without peace and an increasing purity is to be, to be ever more and moreeven if one opens, in a self-perfecting becomingone cannot receive perfectly all that comes down through the opening. One must never pretend that one Light too is: necessary for all—without light one must be, spontaneouslycannot take full advantage of all that comes down.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0929/12peace-junethe-1957#p11 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/12basis-of-junethe-1957sadhana#p11]p2</ref>
== Path of Purity ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purification—rejecting from Life is hard for the modest one's nature all that who seeks purity, who is egoistic or of the nature of rajasic desiredetached, unassuming and whose judgment is correct.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/purityimpurity#p2 http:p12 <//incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p2]ref>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">This is 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 accept no other influence but only lead a solitary existence and have a clear judgment, things will become easy.... It is quite the influence of contrary! When you begin to advance towards inner and outer perfection, the Divinedifficulties start at the same time.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1403/purityimpurity#p2 http:p29<//incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p2]ref>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If one lives only for Very often the Divine and by earlier stage of the Divinesadhana is successful, because there follows a perfect purity.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p5</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">On earth, true purity is an opening of the mind to think as first workings of the Divine thinksForce—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 will as purify and open them and call in the Divine wills, 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 feel as accept the Divine feelsnecessity of years of preparation and purification and increasing consecration before the greater results can come.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1429/purity#p3 http:p7<//incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p3]ref>
=== Dhammapada ===
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;All conditioned things are impermanent.">Sri Aurobindo does not use the word purity in the ordinary moral senseWhen one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered from sorrow. For him, "purity" means "exclusively under That is the influence Path of the Divine", expressing only the Divinepurity.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1003/aphorismthe-282path#p2 http:p5<//incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-282#p2]ref>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;All conditioned things are subject to suffering.">To be pureWhen one has seen that by realisation, what does it mean? One he is truly perfectly pure only when the whole being, in all its elements and all its movements, adheres fully, exclusively, to the divine Willdelivered from sorrow. This indeed That 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 Path of the being adhere exclusively </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and totally to the divine Willpurity.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0603/22the-december-1954path#p18 http:p6<//incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-december-1954#p18]ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>And yet for the sake of completeness it should be added that because 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.~</spancenter>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-30#p6 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-30#p6]
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;All things are insubstantial.">Purity When one has seen that by realisation, he is perfect sincerity and one cannot have it unless the being delivered from sorrow. That is entirely consecrated to the DivinePath of purity.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1403/puritythe-path#p6</u>p7</spanref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purity or impurity depends upon the consciousness; in the divine consciousness everything What 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.</span><span styleImpurity? ="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p16</u></span>
== What does Buddhism say about Purity? Impurities due to Evolution ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">That was … there are two forms of impurity which are at the wisdom root of the Buddha who spoke whole confusion. One is a defect born of "the Middle Way": neither too much nature of our past evolution, which has been a nature of separative ignorance; this nor too much 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 thatan evolution, where life emerges in and depends on body, mind emerges in and depends on life in the body, neither falling into 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 nor falling 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 that—a little the characteristic action of everything the higher function and a balanced way... but pure. Purity gives to it an added imperfection of embarrassment, wrong direction and sincerity are the same thingconfusion.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1024/aphorismthe-103instruments-104of-105the-106-107spirit#p77 http:p3<//incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-103-104-105-106-107#p77]ref>
== Ego ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">So too 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 word "impurity". Pureobstacles, sufferings, as it is understood morallydifficulties, has not at all the meaning it is given in that now appears to us as adverse and anti-divine forces. But these forces themselves were a truly spiritual teaching; necessity for attaining an inner purification and particularly the liberation from ego. The ego is at once the Buddhist standpoint, purity is absence result of ignorance, as I have already told you last time, their action and ignorance means ignoring the inner law, the truth cause of the beingtheir prolongation. And loyalty means not to take When the illusion for ego disappears, the realityadverse forces will also disappear, the changing and fluctuating appearances having no longer any reason for their existence in the inner and real permanence of the beingworld.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugatethe-versesfool#p62</u>p20 </spanref>
= Object of Purity =<center>~</center>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The object of purification is to make the whole mental being a clear mirror in which the divine reality can be reflected, a clear vessel In human egoism and an unobstructing channel into which the divine presence and through which the divine influence its satisfaction there can be poured, a subtilised stuff which the no divine nature can take possession of, new-shape culmination and use to divine issuesdeliverance. For A certain purification from egoism is the mental being at present reflects only the confusions created by the mental condition even of ethical progress and physical view of the worldelevation, is a channel only for the disorders of the ignorant lower nature and full of obstructions social good and impurities which prevent the higher from actingperfection; therefore the whole shape of our being much more is deformed it indispensable for inner peace, purity and imperfectjoy. But a much more radical deliverance, indocile to the highest influences and turned in its action to ignorant not only from egoism but from ego-idea and inferior utilities. It reflects even the </span><span style="backgroundego-color:transparent;color:#000000;">world falsely; it sense, is needed if our aim is incapable of reflecting the Divineto raise human into divine nature.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higherrelease-andfrom-the-lower-knowledgeego#p6 http:p2 <//incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p6]ref>
== Insincerity ==
= Purity 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 Relation 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 other Qualities =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>
== Knowledge and Purity ==<center>~</center>
<div style="color:#000000;">For all this movement It is obvious that in the purity of knowledge its essence, only that which we are describing 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 method of purification vast and liberation whereby entire generous heart. However, most often, in the individual consciousness it is mixed with that mean and final petty self-knowledge becomes possiblepity 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 progressive self-knowledge being itself sublime and eternal joy which alone has the strength and the instrument of power to deliver the purification world from its ignorance and liberationmisery. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/5-february-1956#p5 </divref>
<div style="color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-= Hidden Impulses and-the-mind#p9</u></div>Desires ==
== Perfection There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and Purity ==throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within and sit upon them. But the more you think of a thing and say, "I don't want it, I don't want it", the more you are bound to it. What you should do is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice of it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, remain indifferent and unconcerned. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/14-april-1929#p6 </ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>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.~</spancenter>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-science-of-living#p6 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-science-of-living#p6]
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>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 = Focus on Purity 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.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-december-1954#p5 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-december-1954#p5]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>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>If there is to be an active perfection of our being, the first necessity is a purification of the working of the instruments which it now uses for a music of discords. The being itself, the spirit, the divine Reality in man stands in no need of purification; it is for ever pure, not affected by the faults of its instrumentation or the stumblings of mind and heart and body in their work, as the sun, says the Upanishad, is not touched or stained by the faults of the eye of vision. Mind, heart, the soul of vital desire, the life in the body are the seats of impurity; it is they that must be set right if the working of the spirit is to be a perfect working and not marked by its present greater or less concession to the ~</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p1</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Moreover, it is a total purification of all the complex instrumentality in all the parts of each instrument that is demanded of us by the integral perfection. It is not, ultimately, the narrower moral purification of the ethical nature. Ethics deals only with the desire-soul and the active outward dynamical part of our being; its field is confined to character and action. It prohibits and inhibits certain actions, certain desires, impulses, propensities,—it inculcates certain qualities in the act, such as truthfulness, love, charity, compassion, chastity. When it has got this done and assured a base of virtue, the possession of a purified will and blameless habit of action, its work is finished. But the Siddha of the integral perfection has to dwell in a larger plane of the Spirit's eternal purity beyond good and evil… it is meant that the Siddha of the active integral perfection will live dynamically in the working of the transcendent power of the divine Spirit as a universal will through the supermind individualised in him for action. His works will therefore be the works of an eternal Knowledge, an eternal Truth, an eternal Might, an eternal Love, an eternal Ananda; but the truth, knowledge, force, love, delight will be the whole essential spirit of whatever work he will do and will not depend on its form; they will determine his action from the spirit within and the action will not determine the spirit or subject it to a fixed standard or rigid mould of working. He will have no dominant mere habit of character, but only a spiritual being and will with at the most a free and flexible temperamental mould for the action. His life will be a direct stream from the eternal fountains, not a form cut to some temporary human pattern. His perfection will not be a sattwic purity, but a thing </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''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.'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p2</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In other words, purification must not be understood in any limited sense of a selection of certain </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">outward kinetic movements, their regulation, the inhibition of other action or a liberation of certain forms of character or particular mental and moral capacities. These things are secondary signs of our derivative being, not essential powers and first forces. We have to take a wider psychological view of the primary forces of our nature. We have to distinguish the formed parts of our being, find out their basic defect of impurity or wrong action and correct that, sure that the rest will then come right naturally. We have not to doctor symptoms of impurity, or that only secondarily, as a minor help,—but to strike at its roots after a deeper diagnosis. W</spancenter>
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>
== Aspiration and Purity Disinterestedness ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The aspiration You must be good for entire purification, especially (1) purification from sex, so that no sex imaginations may enter and the sex impulse may ceaselove of goodness, (2) purification from desires and demands, (3) purification from depression which is you must be just for the result love of disappointed desires. It is the most important for you. Particularly what justice, you must aspire be pure for is peace in all the being, complete equanimity, samata. The feeling that peace is not enough must go. Peace and love of purity and equanimity once established, all the rest you must be disinterested for the Mother's free gift, not a result love of disinterestedness; then you are sure to advance on the demand from the beingway.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2903/purityimpurity#p5</u>p32</spanref>
== Sincerity and Purification ==<center>~</center>
<span style="background-color:transparentDoing evil, one harms oneself;color:#000000avoiding evil, one purifies oneself;">Sincerity! Sincerity! How sweet is the purity of thy presence!and impurity depend on ourselves; no one can purify another. </spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1403/sinceritythe-ego#p23 http:p9<//incarnateword.in/cwm/14/sincerity#p23]ref>
= What is Purification? =
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There Purification—rejecting from one's nature all that is, besides, a marvellous joy in being sincere. Every act egoistic or of sincerity carries in itself its own reward: the feeling nature of purification, of soaring upwards, of liberation one gets when one has rejected even one tiny particle of falsehoodrajasic desire.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0829/19-december-1956purity#p31</u>p2 </spanref>
== Love and Purity ==<center>~</center>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In this way it is not necessary to introduce the principle of love into the explanation. But if you want to know or understand the nature of the Force or the Power that enables or brings about this transformation—particularly where evil is concerned, but also with ugliness to a certain extent—you see that love is obviously the most potent and integral of all powers—integral in the sense that it applies in all cases. It is even more powerful than the power of Thus purification which dissolves all bad will and which is, as it wereliberation, the master of the adverse forcesperfection, but which has not the direct power delight of transformation. The power being are four constituent elements of purification first dissolves in order to allow the transformation afterwards. It destroys one form in order to be able to create a better oneYoga,—śuddhi, mukti, whereas love need not dissolve in order to transform; it possesses the direct power of transformation. Love is like a flame that changes what is hard into something malleable and even sublimates this malleable thing into a kind of purified vapour—it does not destroysiddhi, it transformsbhukti.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1024/aphorismthe-perfection-of-the-mental-49being#p12 http:<//incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p12]ref>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The love that one contains in silence acts within oneself for An integral purification and transformation. The love that one turns outwards—if one does it in is a pure long and disinterested way—may occasionally help others. But most often they receive it wrongly... So you must do as your instinct guides youslow labour.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/2421-julyjune-19341935#p3</u>p2</spanref>
== Concentration and Purity ==<center>~</center>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Along with purity and as All purification is a help to bring it aboutrelease, 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 connecteddelivery; for we have seen that impurity it is a confusion throwing away of dharmaslimiting, a laxbinding, mixed obscuring imperfections and mutually entangled action of confusions: purification from desire brings the different parts freedom of the being; psychic prana, purification from wrong emotions and this confusion proceeds from an absence of right concentration of its knowledge on its energies in troubling reactions the embodied Soul. The fault freedom 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 fitfullyheart, irregularly with a more or less chance emphasis on this or on that object according as they happen to interest, not purification from the higher soul or the judging and discerning intellect, but obscuring limited thought of the restless, leaping, fickle, easily tired, easily distracted lower sense mind which is the chief enemy of our progress. In such a condition purity, the right working freedom of the functionsintelligence, purification from mere intellectuality the clear, unstained and luminous order freedom of the being gnosis. But all this 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, pervertinstrumental liberation. Equally, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''without purity the complete, equal, flexible concentration The freedom of the being in right thoughtsoul, right willmukti, right feeling or secure status is of spiritual experience a larger and more essential character; it is not possible.'''</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Therefore the two must proceed together, each helping the victory an opening out of mortal limitation into the other, until we arrive at that eternal calm from which may proceed some partial image in the human being illimitable immortality of the eternal, omnipotent and omniscient activitySpirit.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2324/concentrationthe-liberation-of-the-spirit#p1</u></spanref>
== Instinct and Purity ==<center>~</center>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">For the purity The systematic purification of which Sri Aurobindo speaks here is the purity whole being for an integral reflection and taking in 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 divine reality can only be favourable or unfavourabledone by the special methods of Yoga. All these notions come into play when the mental ego makes its appearance and begins Its absolute concentration has to take a dominant position in the consciousness place of the dispersed concentrations of the lower knowledge; the vague and ineffective identification which is all the lower knowledge can bring, has to veil be replaced by the spontaneity of the soulcomplete, intimate, imperative and living union which Yoga brings.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1023/aphorismthe-higher-and-30the-lower-knowledge#p4 http:p9<//incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-30#p4]ref>
== Faith and Purity ==<center>~</center>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">At every moment all ...you must add the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the unforeseenleast 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 unexpectedadverse force usually runs away immediately, for if it happens to be in the unknown 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 before us―and what happens possible, or it may be simply dissolved and reduced to us depends mostly on nothing. And with that not only is the intensity and purity illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of our faiththe illness once for all, it never comes back.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1405/faith22-july-1953#p19 http:p62<//incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith#p19]ref>
== Surrender and Purity ==''' Purification before Perfection '''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Detailed surrender means The world will 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 and individually—stem from the surrender of all errors that lie at the details roots of life, even the smallest and the most insignificant in appearanceour ignorant nature. And this means to remember the Divine in all circumstances; whatever we think, feel or do, we We must do it for Him as a way be cleansed of these evils—individually first of coming close all—if we ever hope to Him, to be more and more what He wants us to be, capable see a clean world outside. A yoga of manifesting His will in perfect sincerity and purity, self-purification is the condition precedent to be the instruments a yoga of His Loveperfection.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/surrenderhelping-others-and-the-world#p7 http:p23<//incarnateword.in/cwm/14/surrender#p7]ref>
''' Aspiration for Purification '''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There are two possibilities, one of purification by personal effort, which takes a long time, another by a direct intervention of the Divine Grace which is usually rapid in its action. For the latter there The aspiration 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 stepentire purification, 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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p78</u></span>especially
== Beauty *purification from sex, so that no sex imaginations may enter and Purity ==the sex impulse may cease,
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Pure sense of beauty can be acquired only through a great *purification.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/beauty#p14 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/beauty#p14]from desires and demands,
*purification from depression which is the result of disappointed desires.
It is the most important for you. Particularly what you must aspire for is peace in all the being, complete equanimity, samata. The feeling that peace is not enough must go. Peace and purity and equanimity once established, all the rest must be the Mother’s free gift, not a result of the demand from the being.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p5</ref>
<div style="color:#000000;">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.</div>= Object of Purification ==
[http://incarnateword.The object of purification is to make the whole mental being a clear mirror in/cwsa/23/which the divine reality can be reflected, a clear vessel and an unobstructing channel into which the divine presence and through which the divine influence can be poured, a subtilised stuff which thedivine 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-lower-knowledge#p8 Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p8]p6 </ref>
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== Receptivity A certain amount of purification is necessary before there can be any realisation of the Divine and Purity ==that is what has been going on in you. It is after all not a very long time since the real purification began and it is never an easy work. So the impatience may be natural, but it is not exactly reasonable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p1</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>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.~</spancenter>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/27-november-1968#p2 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/27-november-1968#p2]
== Truth As is said in the Upanishads, our whole mind-consciousness is shot through with the threads and Purity ==currents of this Prana, this Life-energy that strives and limits, grasps and misses, desires and suffers, and only by its purification can we know and possess our real and eternal self. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p4</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">When we are in the presence of hostile forces, only the purity of an absolute truth can conquer them.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/20-july-1935#p7 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/20-july-1935#p7]Why Purification is Important? =
== Calm and Purity ==No protection, no Grace can save those who refuse the indispensable purification. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/15-august-1956#p6</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purification and calm are With the first needs in the Yoga. One may have inner liberation, with a great wealth of experiences of that kind (worldstotal sincerity and perfect purity, visionsall suffering will disappear, voices etc.) without them, but these experiences occurring in an unpurified and troubled because it will no longer be necessary for the progress of the consciousness are usually full of disorder and mixturetowards its final goal.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3003/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purificationfool#p50 http:p21<//incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p50]ref>
=== Beauty ===
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In your nature there are many obstacles, chiefly Pure sense of beauty can be acquired only through a great activity of the outward-going mind and a thick crust of the impure lower Prakriti that covers the heart and the vital being. Quieting of the mind and purification of the nature are what you must have before you can fulfil your aim. Aspire for these two things first; ask for them constantly from above. You will not be able to achieve them by your own unaided effort.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2915/puritybeauty#p9 http:p14<//incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p9]ref>
== Peace The preoccupation with universal beauty even in its aesthetic forms has an intense power for refining and Purity ==subtilising the nature, and at its highest it is a great force for purification. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p8</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Peace and purity of the consciousness are the very foundation of the necessary change in the nature.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p1</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span><span styleCalm ==="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p2</u></span>
== Manifestation Purification and Purity ==calm are the first needs in the Yoga. One may have a great wealth of experiences of that kind (worlds, visions, voices etc.) without them, but these experiences occurring in an unpurified and troubled consciousness are usually full of disorder and mixture. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p50</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>Neither the complete purification nor the permanent and perfect manifestation can come all at once, it is a matter of time and patient progress. The two (purification and manifestation) go on progressing side by side and become more and more strong to play into each other's hands—that is the usual course of the sadhana.~</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p35</u></spancenter>
== Transformation In your nature there are many obstacles, chiefly a great activity of the outward-going mind and Purity ==a thick crust of the impure lower Prakriti that covers the heart and the vital being. Quieting of the mind and purification of the nature are what you must have before you can fulfil your aim. Aspire for these two things first; ask for them constantly from above. You will not be able to achieve them by your own unaided effort. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p9</ref>
<div style="color:#000000;">Purification of the nature by the "influence" of the Spirit is not what I mean by transformation; purification is only part of a psychic change or a psycho-spiritual change—the word besides has many senses and is very often given a moral or ethical meaning which is foreign to my purpose. What I mean by the spiritual transformation is something dynamic (not merely liberation of the self, or realisation of the One which can very well be attained without any descent). It is a putting on of the spiritual consciousness dynamic as well as static in every part of the being down to the subconscient. That cannot be done by the influence of the Self leaving the consciousness fundamentally as it is with only purification, enlightenment of the mind and heart and quiescence of the vital. It means a bringing down of Divine Consciousness static and dynamic into all these parts and the entire replacement of the present consciousness by that.</div>== Perfection ===
[http://incarnatewordAs 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/cwsa/29/transformation-all your feelings, all your acts of will, all your actions, in-all the-integral-yoga#p13 movements of your being. Finally, these movements themselves should, by constant effort, attain their highest perfection. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2912/transformation-inthe-thescience-integralof-yogaliving#p13]p6 </ref>
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= Outcome If there is to be an active perfection of Purity =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>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>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 of the consciousness towards its final goal.~</spancenter>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-fool#p21 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-fool#p21]
= Why Purity? =Moreover, it is a total purification of all the complex instrumentality in all the parts of each instrument that is demanded of us by the integral perfection. It is not, ultimately, the narrower moral purification of the ethical nature. Ethics deals only with the desire-soul and the active outward dynamical part of our being; its field is confined to character and action. It prohibits and inhibits certain actions, certain desires, impulses, propensities,—it inculcates certain qualities in the act, such as truthfulness, love, charity, compassion, chastity. When it has got this done and assured a base of virtue, the possession of a purified will and blameless habit of action, its work is finished. But the Siddha of the integral perfection has to dwell in a larger plane of the Spirit's eternal purity beyond good and evil… it is meant that the Siddha of the active integral perfection will live dynamically in the working of the transcendent power of the divine Spirit as a universal will through the supermind individualised in him for action. His works will therefore be the works of an eternal Knowledge, an eternal Truth, an eternal Might, an eternal Love, an eternal Ananda; but the truth, knowledge, force, love, delight will be the whole essential spirit of whatever work he will do and will not depend on its form; they will determine his action from the spirit within and the action will not determine the spirit or subject it to a fixed standard or rigid mould of working. He will have no dominant mere habit of character, but only a spiritual being and will with at the most a free and flexible temperamental mould for the action. His life will be a direct stream from the eternal fountains, not a form cut to some temporary human pattern. His perfection will not be a sattwic purity, but a thing uplifted beyond the gunas of Nature, a perfection of spiritual knowledge, spiritual power, spiritual delight, unity and harmony of unity; the outward perfection of his works will be freely shaped as the self-expression of this inner spiritual transcendence and universality. For this change he must make conscient in him that power of spirit and supermind which is now superconscient to our mentality. But that cannot work in him so long as his present mental, vital, physical being is not liberated from its actual inferior working. This purification is the first necessity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p2</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">A certain amount of purification is necessary before there can be any realisation of the Divine and that is what has been going on in you. It is after all not a very long time since the real purification began and it is never an easy work. So the impatience may be natural, but it is not exactly reasonable.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p1</u></span>= Manifestation ===
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">You must be good for Neither the love of goodness, you must be just for complete purification nor the love of justicepermanent and perfect manifestation can come all at once, you must be pure for the love it is a matter of purity time and patient progress. The two (purification and manifestation) go on progressing side by side and become more and you must be disinterested for more strong to play into each other's hands—that is the love usual course of disinterestedness; then you are sure to advance on the waysadhana.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0330/impuritythe-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p32 http:p35<//incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p32]ref>
= Where is Purity? == Knowledge ===
<div style="color:#000000;">The purification For all this movement of the heart knowledge which we are describing is the central necessitya method of purification and liberation whereby entire and final self-knowledge becomes possible, but a purification progressive self-knowledge being itself the instrument of the mind, vital purification and physical is also called forliberation. <ref>http://incarnateword. But in/cwsa/23/the most important thing for purification of -release-from-the -heart is an absolute sincerity. No pretence with oneself, no concealment from the Divine or oneself or the Guru, a straight look at one's nature -and one's movements, a straight will to make them straight. It does not so much matter if it takes time; one must be prepared to make it one's whole life-task to seek the Divine. Purifying the heart means after all a pretty considerable achievement and it is no use getting despondent, despairful etc. because one finds things in oneself that still need to be changed. -mind#p9</divref>
[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-= What to Purify and-the-need-of-purification#p42 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p42]How? =
In other words, purification must not be understood in any limited sense of a selection of certain outward kinetic movements, their regulation, the inhibition of other action or a liberation of certain forms of character or particular mental and moral capacities. These things are secondary signs of our derivative being, not essential powers and first forces. We have to take a wider psychological view of the primary forces of our nature. We have to distinguish the formed parts of our being, find out their basic defect of impurity or wrong action and correct that, sure that the rest will then come right naturally. We have not to doctor symptoms of impurity, or that only secondarily, as a minor help, but to strike at its roots after a deeper diagnosis. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-instruments-of-the-spirit#p2</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>Whatever may be the past, whatever may be the faults committed, whatever the ignorance in which one might have lived, one carries deep within oneself the supreme purity which can translate itself into a wonderful realisation.~</spancenter>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-flowers#p20 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-flowers#p20]
... the main need is a certain preparation of the consciousness so that it may be able to respond more and more freely to the higher Force. In this preparation many things are useful—the poetry and music you are doing can help, for it acts as a sort of śravaṇa and manana, even, if the feeling roused is intense, a sort of natural nididhyāsana. Psychic preparation, clearing out of the grosser forms of mental and vital ego, opening mind and heart to the Guru and many other things help greatly—it is not perfection or a complete freedom from the dualities or ego that is the indispensable preliminary, but preparedness, a fineness of the inner being which makes spiritual responses and receiving possible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p37</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">These adverse forces are connected with sexual desire. They live on the energy wasted when the act takes place. And even a thought, a mental or vital desire is sufficient to let them come in and settle in the atmosphere. Thus it is in the mind itself that the purification must take place.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p20 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p20]= Purification of Understanding ==
= How to Purify? =The first necessity of preparation is the purifying of all the members of our being; especially, for the path of knowledge, the purification of the understanding, the key that shall open the door of Truth; 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, darken its seeing, misapply its knowledge; an unpurified physical system clogs or chokes up its action. There must be an integral purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p3</ref>
<div style="color:#000000;"center>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. ~</divcenter>
By the understanding we mean that which at once perceives, judges and discriminates, the true reason of the human being not subservient to the senses, to desire or to the blind force of habit, but working in its own right for mastery, for knowledge. <div style="color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/purification-the-lowerpurified-mentalityunderstanding#p7</u>p5</divref>
=== Causes and Remedy of Impurity in Understanding ===
<span style="background'''''Intermiscence of Desire''''' -color:transparent;color:#000000;">The systematic purification first cause of the whole being for an integral reflection and taking impurity in of the divine reality can only be done by understanding is the special methods intermiscence of Yoga. Its absolute concentration has to take desire in the place thinking functions, and desire itself is an impurity of the dispersed concentrations Will involved in the vital and emotional parts of our being. When the lower knowledge; the vague vital and ineffective identification which is all emotional desires interfere with the lower knowledge can bringpure will-to-know, has the thought-function becomes subservient to be replaced by the completethem, intimate, imperative pursues ends other than those proper to itself and its perceptions are clogged and living union which Yoga bringsderanged.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/The understanding must lift itself beyond the-higher-siege of desire and emotion and-the-lower-knowledge#p9 http://incarnateword., in/cwsa/23/order that it may have perfect immunity, it must get the-higher-vital parts and-the-lower-knowledge#p9]emotions themselves purified.
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; 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 working of the divine Will and to rid itself of craving and attachment.
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is the inner offering of Similarly the heart's adoration, must be freed from subjection to the soul cravings of it in the symbol, life principle and the spirit senses and thus rid itself of it in the actfalse emotions of fear, that is wrath, hatred, lust, etc. which constitute the very life chief impurity of the sacrificeheart. If this offering The will to love is to be complete and universal, then a turning of all our emotions proper to the Divine is imperative. This is the intensest way of purification for the human heart, more powerful than any ethical but here also the choice and reaching after love have to be foregone or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power tranquillised 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 heart taught to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away love with depth and the others discard their insufficienciesintensity indeed, till but with a spirit of largest love calm depth and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame settled and smoke equal, not a troubled and frankincensedisordered intensity. It is the divine love which so emerges that, extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man The tranquillisation and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be more potent for the perfectibility of life mastery (sama and a more real instrument than the ineffective mental ideal dama) of brotherhood can ever be. It these members 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 first condition for the heart immunity of the delivered manifestation in terrestrial Natureunderstanding from error, ignorance and perversion.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-ofpurified-the-sacrifice-iiunderstanding#p14 http:p9<//incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p14]ref>
'''''Intermiscence of the Sense-mind''''' - The second cause of impurity in the understanding is the illusion of the senses and the intermiscence of the sense-mind in the thinking functions. No knowledge can be true knowledge which subjects itself to the senses or uses them otherwise than as first indices whose data have constantly to be corrected and overpassed.
<div style="color:#000000…the beginning of philosophy is the examination of the principles of things which the senses mistranslate to us;">It has been seen that a most effective way the beginning of purification spiritual knowledge is for the mental Purusha refusal to draw back, accept the limitations of the sense-life or to stand as take the passive witness and observe and know himself visible and sensible as anything more than phenomenon of the workings of Nature Reality. <ref>http://incarnateword.in /cwsa/23/the lower, the normal being; but this must be combined, for perfection, with a will to raise the -purified nature into the higher spiritual being. -understanding#p10</divref>
<div style="color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-action-of-the-divine-shakti#p7</ucenter>~</divcenter>
Equally must the sense-mind be stilled and taught to leave the function of thought to the mind that judges and understands. When the understanding in us stands back from the action of the sense-mind and repels its intermiscence, the latter detaches itself from the understanding and can be watched in its separate action. It then reveals itself as a constantly swirling and eddying undercurrent of habitual concepts, associations, perceptions, desires without any real sequence, order or principle of light. It is a constant repetition in a circle unintelligent and unfruitful.
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">...you must add the Force of spiritual purification which There is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. If you have to be done with this Force at your disposal or if you can ask for it and get itfickle, restless, you direct it on the spot violent and the adverse force usually runs away immediately, for if it happens disturbing factor but to be in the midst get rid of this Force it gets dissolved, whether by detaching it </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">disappears; for no force of disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and with then reducing it that also disappears. It can be changed into to stillness or by giving a constructive force, that is possible, or it may be simply dissolved concentration and reduced singleness to nothing. And with that not only is the illness cured, but all possibility thought by which it will of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness once for all, it never comes backitself reject this alien and confusing element.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0523/22the-julypurified-1953understanding#p62</u>p11</spanref>
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== Purification '''''Improper Action of Ambition ==the Will to Know''''' - A third cause of impurity has its source in the understanding itself and consists in an improper action of the will to know. That will is proper to the understanding, but here again choice and unequal reaching after knowledge clog and distort. They lead to a partiality and attachment which makes the intellect cling to certain ideas and opinions with a more or less obstinate will to ignore the truth in other ideas and opinions, cling to certain fragments of a truth and shy against the admission of other parts which are yet necessary to its fullness, cling to certain predilections of knowledge and repel all knowledge that does not agree with the personal temperament of thought which has been acquired by the past of the thinker.
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And soThe remedy lies in a perfect equality of the mind, purification of experience means to make in the experience sincere and motiveless. To take away all one's motives cultivation of ambition an entire intellectual rectitude and vanity, in the perfection of desire, power, etcmental disinterestedness. This is called purifying the experience, making The purified understanding as it sincerewill not lend itself to any desire or craving, spontaneous and so will not mixing it with desires lend itself either to any predilection or distaste for any particular idea or truth, and ambitions. There are spiritual ambitions, he speaks 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 these are even depreciate the most dangerousvalues of other elements of a complete and perfect knowledge.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0723/12the-januarypurified-1955understanding#p34</u>p12</spanref>
== Purity of Understanding ==<center>~</center>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The first necessity of preparation is the purifying of all the members of our being; especially, for the path of knowledge, the purification of the An understanding, the key that shall open the door of Truth; and a thus 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, darken its seeing, misapply its knowledge; an unpurified physical system clogs or chokes up its action. There must would 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 othera perfectly flexible, the progressive tranquillisation entire and faultless instrument of the emotional heart helping for instance the purification of the understanding while equally a purified understanding imposes calm and light on the turbid intellectual thought 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 free from the purified understanding that in man is the most potent cleanser inferior sources of his turbid obstruction and disordered being and most sovereignly imposes their right working on his other members. Knowledge, says the Gita, is the sovereign purity; light is the source distortion would be capable of all clearness and harmony even as the darkness of ignorance is the cause of all our stumblings. Love, for example, is the purifier of the heart true and by reducing all our emotions into terms complete a perception of divine love the heart is perfected and fulfilled; yet love itself needs to be clarified by divine knowledge. The heart's love truths of God may be blind, narrow and ignorant and lead to fanaticism and obscurantism; it may, even when otherwise pure, limit our perfection by refusing to see Him except in a limited personality and by recoiling from the true and infinite vision. The heart's love of man may equally lead to distortions and exaggerations in feeling, action Self and knowledge which have to be corrected and prevented by the purification of universe as the understandingintellect can attain.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p3</u>p13</spanref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Sanskrit philosophical term buddhi; therefore we exclude from it the action Purification 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.</span><span styleHeart =="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p4</u></span>
= Path The purification of Purity =the heart is the central necessity, but a purification of the mind, vital and physical is also called for. But the most important thing for purification of the heart is an absolute sincerity.
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">"All conditioned things are impermanent." When one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered *No pretence with oneself *No concealment from sorrow. That is the Path of purity.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/Divine or oneself or the-path#p5</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">"All conditioned things are subject to suffering." When Guru*A straight look at one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered from sorrow. That is the Path of purity.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-path#p6</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">"All things are insubstantial." When 's nature and one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered from sorrow's movements*A straight will to make them straight. That is the Path of purity.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-path#p7 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-path#p7]
It does not so much matter if it takes time; one must be prepared to make it one's whole life-task to seek the Divine. Purifying the heart means after all a pretty considerable achievement and it is no use getting despondent, despairful etc. because one finds things in oneself that still need to be changed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p42</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>Life is hard for the modest one who seeks purity, who is detached, unassuming and whose judgment is correct.~</spancenter>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p12 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p12]
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</ref>
<div style="color:#000000;">Purity must be our aim, but not the purity = Purification of a void or of a bleak and rigid coldness.</div>Mind ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-master-of-the-work#p7</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There was a third thing?... Yes, you must not cherish the illusion that if you want = Release from Subjection 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 </span><span styleBody =="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">time.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p29</u></span>
<span style="background-color:transparentWe say then to the mind “This is a working of Prakriti, this is neither thyself nor myself;color:#000000stand 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;">Doing evilwe 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, one harms oneselfor what it eats or drinks. This does not mean that we shall not keep the body in right order so far as we can; avoiding evilwe 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, one purifies oneself; purity or indeed any but a quite subordinate and impurity depend on ourselves; no one can purify anotherpurely instrumental importance.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0323/the-ego#p9 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/release-from-subjection-to-the-egobody#p9]p2</ref>
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<span style="background-color:transparentThus disciplined the mind will gradually learn to take up towards the body the true attitude of the Purusha. First of all, it will know the mental Purusha as the upholder of the body and not in any way the body itself;color:#000000;">No protection, no Grace can save those who refuse for it is quite other than the physical existence which it upholds by the mind through the agency of the indispensable purificationvital force.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0823/15the-release-from-subjection-to-augustthe-1956body#p6</u>p3</spanref>
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= Forms Secondly, with regard to the movements and experiences of Purity =the body the mind will come to know the Purusha seated within it as, first, the witness or observer of the movements and, secondly, the knower or perceiver of the experiences. It will cease to consider in thought or feel in sensation these movements and experiences as its own but rather consider and feel them as not its own, as operations of Nature governed by the qualities of Nature and their interaction upon each other. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p4</ref>
== Integral Purity ==<center>~</center>
<span style="background-color:transparentFinally, the mind will come to know the Purusha in the mind as the master of Nature whose sanction is necessary to her movements. It will find that as the giver of the sanction he can withdraw the original fiat from the previous habits of Nature and that eventually the habit will cease or change in the direction indicated by the will of the Purusha;color:#000000not 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;">Integral purity: 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 whole being old sanction is purified of not renewed by the mind or the habit willingly indulged, then eventually the egochange will come.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1423/puritythe-release-from-subjection-to-the-body#p9 http:p5<//incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p9]ref>
=== 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:transparentenergy in the mind;color:#000000it has to make the mind say as the representative of the Purusha “I am not the Life;">An integral purification the Life is not the self of the Purusha, it is only a long working and slow labouronly one working of Prakriti.</span><span style="background” The characteristics of Life are action and movement, a reaching out to absorb and assimilate what is external to the individual and a principle of satisfaction or dissatisfaction in what it seizes upon or what comes to it, which is associated with the all-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnatewordpervading phenomenon of attraction and repulsion. These three things are everywhere in Nature because Life is everywhere in Nature. But in us mental beings they are all given a mental value according to the mind which perceives and accepts them. They take the form of action, of desire and of liking and disliking, pleasure and pain.The Prana is everywhere in/cwm/17/21us supporting not only the action of our body, but of our sense-junemind, our emotional mind, our thought-1935#p2</u></span><span style="background-color:transparentmind;color:#000000;">Power and bringing its own law or dharma into all these, it confuses, it limits, it throws into discord their right action and creates that impurity of integral purity: misplacement and that tangled confusion which is the power whole evil of our psychological existence. In that confusion one law seems to accept nothing but reign, the divine influencelaw of desire.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1423/puritythe-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p10 http:p1<//incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p10]ref>
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<span style="backgroundTherefore the mental Purusha has to separate himself from association and self-identification with this desire-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The divine existence is of the nature mind. He has to say “I am not only of freedomthis thing that struggles and suffers, grieves and rejoices, but of purityloves and hates, beatitude hopes and perfection. An integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves is baffled, is angry and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth afraid and Law in us in the terms of life cheerful and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our outer partsdepressed, is the condition a thing of an integral libertyvital moods and emotional passions. Its result is an integral beatitude, in which there becomes possible at once the Ananda All these are merely workings and habits of all that is Prakriti in the world seen as symbols of the Divine sensational and the Ananda of that which is not-worldemotional mind. And it prepares the integral perfection of our humanity ” The mind then draws back from its emotions and becomes with these, as a type of the Divine in the conditions of with the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free universality of being, of love bodily movements and joyexperiences, 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 Yogaobserver or witness.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-synthesisrelease-offrom-the-heart-and-the-systemsmind#p19</u>p6</spanref>
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== SelfAs with action and inaction, so it is with this dual possibility of indifference and calm on the one side and active joy and love on the other. Equality, not indifference is the basis. Equal endurance, impartial indifference, calm submission to the causes of joy and grief without any reaction of either grief or joy are the preparation and negative basis of equality; but equality is not fulfilled till it takes its positive form of love and delight. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-Purification ==release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p8</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The world will 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 and individually—stem from </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">the errors that lie at the roots of our ignorant nature. We must be cleansed of these evils—individually first of all—if we ever hope to see a clean world outside. A yoga of self-purification is the condition precedent to a yoga of perfection.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/helping-others-and-the-world#p23 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/helping-others-and-the-world#p23]'''''Emotional Mind'''''
== Divine Purity ==... the emotional mind compelled to take note of all these discords and subject itself to their emotional reactions becomes a hurtling field of joy and grief, love and hatred, wrath, fear, struggle, aspiration, disgust, likes, dislikes, indifferences, content, discontent, hopes, disappointments, gratitude, revenge and all the stupendous play of passion which is the drama of life in the world. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p3</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>The Divine Purity is a more wide and all-embracing experience than the psychic.~</spancenter>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p15 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p15]
There is this emotional mind in which these moods and passions continue to occur according to the habit of the modes of Nature and there is the observing mind which sees them, studies and understands but is detached from them.
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Divine purity: it is happy just It observes them as if in a sort of action and play on a mental stage of personages other than itself, at first with interest and a habit of relapse into identification, then with entire calm and detachment, and, finally, attaining not only to calm but to bethe pure delight of its own silent existence, with a smile at their unreality as at the imaginary joys and sorrows of a child who is playing and loses himself in all simplicity.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p16 http://incarnatewordthe play.in/cwm/14/purity#p16]
Secondly, it becomes aware of itself as master of the sanction who by his withdrawal of sanction can make this play to cease. When the sanction is withdrawn, another significant phenomenon takes place; the emotional mind becomes normally calm and pure and free from these reactions, and even when they come, they no longer rise from within but seem to fall on it as impressions from outside to which its fibres are still able to respond; but this habit of response dies away and the emotional mind is in time entirely liberated from the passions which it has renounced. Hope and fear, joy and grief, liking and disliking, attraction and repulsion, content and discontent, gladness and depression, horror and wrath and fear and disgust and shame and the passions of love and hatred fall away from the liberated psychic being. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p6</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/14-april-1954#p19</u></span>'''''Sense Mind'''''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It Desire is like at once the word "purity"; one could hold forth interminably on motive of our actions, our lever of accomplishment and the difference between divine purity and what people call puritybane of our existence. The divine purityIf our sense-mind, at the lowestemotional mind, allows no influence other than thought-mind could act free from the divine influence—at intrusions and importations of the lowest. But life-energy, if 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 Divineenergy could be made to obey their right action instead of imposing its own yoke on our existence, there is nothing other than Himall human problems would move harmoniously to their right solution.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-63-64-65#p31 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-63-64-65#p31]
The proper function of 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.
<span style="backgroundThe proper function of the sense-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We are mind is to lie open passively, luminously to the deforming intermediary between the purity contacts of Life and transmit their sensations and the animal rasa or right taste and the divine purity principle of delight in them to the gods.</span><span style="background-color:transparenthigher function;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1523/19the-release-from-the-julyheart-1958and-the-mind#p13</u>p2</spanref>
== Ascetic Purity ==<center>~</center>
<span style="backgroundThe desire-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Once and for all it swept away not only all mind must also be rejected from the ordinary notions instrument 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 thought and this kind of so-called ascetic purity. Ascetic purity is simply best done by the rejection detachment 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 Purusha from thought and letting the Supreme act freely on them, you tell Him, "No, that is not your concern." He is not allowed to interfere with themopinion itself.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1023/aphorismthe-69release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p8 http:p9<//incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-69#p8]ref>
== Moral Versus Spiritual Purification =='''''Thought Mind'''''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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, So too the moral conventions, and who are a mass proper function of impurity—from the spiritual point of view these beings are profoundly impure. On the other hand </span><span style="backgroundthought-color:transparent;color:#000000;">there are some poor people who do things... who are bornmind is to observe, for instanceunderstand, judge with a sense of freedom, dispassionate delight in knowledge and do things which are not considered very respectable from the social or moral point of view, open itself to messages and who can be in a state of inner aspiration illuminations playing upon all that it observes and inner sincerity which makes them infinitely purer than the others. This upon all that is one of the big difficulties. As soon as one speaks of these thingsyet hidden from it but must progressively be revealed, there arises messages and illuminations that secretly flash down to us from the deformation produced divine Oracle concealed in light above our mentality whether they seem to descend through the consciousness by all intuitive mind or arise from the social and moral conventionsseeing heart. As soon as you speak of purity, a moral monument comes in front of you which completely falsifies your notion. And note that But this it cannot do rightly because it is infinitely easier pinned to be moral from the social point limitations of view than the life-energy in the senses, to be moral from the spiritual point discords of view. To be moral from the social viewpoint one has only sensation and emotion, and to pay good attention to do nothing which is not approved its own limitations of by others; this may be somewhat difficultintellectual preference, but still it is not impossible; and one may beinertia, as I saidstraining, a monument self-will which are the form taken in it by the interference of insincerity and impurity while doing this; whereas to be pure from the spiritual point of view means a vigilancedesire-mind, a consciousness, a sincerity that stand all teststhis psychic Prana.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0623/22the-release-from-decemberthe-1954#p20 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22heart-and-decemberthe-1954mind#p2]p4</ref>
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== Mental Purity ==The method with the thought-mind will be the same as with all the rest of the being. The Purusha, having used the thought-mind for release from identification with the life and body and with the mind of desire and sensations and emotions, will turn round upon the thought-mind itself and will say “This too I am not; I am not the thought or the thinker; all these ideas, opinions, speculations, strivings of the intellect, its predilections, preferences, dogmas, doubts, self-corrections are not myself; all this is only a working of Prakriti which takes place in the thought-mind.” Thus a division is created between the mind that thinks and wills and the mind that observes and the Purusha becomes the witness only; he sees, he understands the process and laws of his thought, but detaches himself from it. Then as the master of the sanction he withdraws his past sanction from the tangle of the mental undercurrent and the reasoning intellect and causes both to cease from their importunities. He becomes liberated from subjection to the thinking mind and capable of the utter silence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p9</ref>
== <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Mental purity: a mirror which does not distort.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p11 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p11] Release from Ego ===
== <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000In 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;">Perfect mental much more is it indispensable for inner peace, purity: and joy. But a spotless mirror constantly turned towards the Divine.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p12 http://incarnatewordmuch 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.in/cwm/14/purity#p12] ==
== <span style="background-color:transparentThe ego is by its nature a smallness of being;color:#000000;">Integral mental purity: silentit brings contraction of the consciousness and with the contraction limitation of knowledge, disabling ignorance, attentive—confinement and a diminution of power and by that diminution incapacity and weakness, receptive—scission of oneness and by that scission disharmony and failure of sympathy and love and understanding, concentrated on —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 Divine―this cosmic self is the path to puritya diminished image.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1423/puritythe-release-from-the-ego#p13 http:p2<//incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p13] ==ref>
== <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Vital Purity</span> =='''''Cosmic self is not Collective Existence'''''
<span style="background-color:transparentBut this cosmic self is spiritual in essence and in experience;color:#000000it must not be confused with the collective existence, with any group soul or the life and body of a human society or even of all mankind. The subordination of the ego to the progress and happiness of the human race is now a governing idea in the world’s thought and ethics;">Vital purity: 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 begins with has no firm spiritual content, and offers no sure standing-ground to the abolition soul of desireman.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1423/puritythe-release-from-the-ego#p14 http:p3<//incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p14]ref>
'''''Elimination of Ego'''''
<span style="backgroundIn the ancient way of knowledge we arrive at the elimination of the ego-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is therefore no integral Yoga that kills these vital energiessense which attaches itself to the body, to the life, forces them into a nerveless quiescence to the mind and says of all or roots any of them out , “This is I”. Not only do we, as in the source way of noxious activities. Their purificationworks, not their destruction,—their transformation, control get rid of the “I” of the worker and utilisation is see the Lord alone as the aim in view with which they have been created true source of all works and sanction of works and developed in us.</span><span style="backgroundHis executive Nature-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/power or else His supreme Shakti as the sole agent and worker,—but we get rid also of theego-three-steps-sense which mistakes the instruments or the expressions of-nature#p6</u></span>our being for our true self and spirit.
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p31</u></span>'''''Release also from Elusive Ego'''''
== 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 Health ==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>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>Light in the cells: the first step towards purity in the cells.~</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-body-the-physical#p19</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purity in the cells cannot be obtained except through conquest of desires; it is the true condition for good health.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-body-the-physical#p20</u></spancenter>
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>
= Impurities ='''''True Self, The Jiva'''''
That substance is the self of the man called in European thought the Monad, in Indian philosophy, Jiva or Jivatman, the living entity, the self of the living creature. This Jiva is not the mental ego-sense constructed by the workings of Nature for her temporary purpose. It is not a thing bound, as the mental being, the vital, the physical are bound, by her habits, laws or processes. The Jiva is a spirit and self, superior to Nature. It is true that it consents to her acts, reflects her moods and upholds the triple medium of mind, life and body through which she casts them upon the soul’s consciousness; but it is itself a living reflection or a soul-form or a self-creation of the Spirit universal and transcendent. The One Spirit who has mirrored some of His modes of being in the world and in the soul, is multiple in the Jiva. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p6</ref>
'''''Goal for the seeker of Integral Knowledge'''''
<span style="background-color:transparentFor the disciple of an integral Yoga there can be no hesitation;color:#000000;">Thinking too much about one's impurities does as a seeker of knowledge it is the integral knowledge and not helpanything either half-way and attractive or high-pinnacled and exclusive he must seek. It is better He must soar to the utmost height, but also circle and spread to keep the most all-embracing wideness, not binding himself to any rigid structure of metaphysical thought fixed on , but free to admit and combine all the puritysoul’s highest and greatest and fullest and most numerous experiences. If the highest height of spiritual experience, light the sheer summit of all realisation is the absolute union of the soul with the Transcendent who exceeds the individual and peace the universe, the widest scope of that one wants to acquireunion 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.</span>[http://incarnatewordWhatever the path, this must be for him the goal.in/cwm/14/mistakes-no-torment-worry-or-sadness#p5 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/mistakes-no-torment-worry-or-sadness#p5]
One he must be with the Divine both in his highest and inmost and in his widest being and consciousness, in his work, his will, his power of action, his mind, body, life. Otherwise he is only released from the illusion of individual works, but not released from the illusion of separate being and instrumentality.
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">… </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">there are two forms of impurity which are at Obeying the root of necessity to withdraw successively from the whole confusion. One is a defect born of the nature practical egoism of our past evolution, which has been a triple nature of separative ignorance; this defect is a radically wrong and ignorant form given its fundamental ego-sense, we come to the proper action of each part of our instrumental being. The other impurity is born realisation of the successive process of an evolutionspirit, where life emerges in and depends on body, mind emerges in and depends on life in the bodyself, supermind emerges in and lends itself to instead lord of governing mindthis individual human manifestation, soul itself but our knowledge is apparent only as a circumstance of not integral if we do not make this self in the bodily life of individual one with the mental being cosmic spirit and veils find their greater reality above in an inexpressible but not unknowable Transcendence. The Jiva, possessed of himself, must give himself up into the spirit in being of the lower imperfectionsDivine. This second defect of our nature is caused by this dependence The self of the higher on man must be made one with the lower partsSelf of all; it is an immixture of functions by which the impure working self of the lower instrument gets finite individual must pour itself into the characteristic action of boundless finite and that cosmic spirit too must be exceeded in the higher function and gives to it an added imperfection of embarrassment, wrong direction and confusiontranscendent Infinite.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2423/the-instrumentsrelease-offrom-the-spiritego#p3</u>p7</spanref>
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<span style="backgroundThe ego-sense is not indispensable to the world-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Now, there are stages, there are degrees. For example, insincerity, play in which it is one so active and so falsifies the truth of things; the greatest impurities, truth is always arises from the fact that a movement or a set of movementsOne at work on itself, at play with itself, infinite in unity, an element of infinite in multiplicity. When the being or a number of elements, want individualised consciousness rises to follow their own will and not be the expression lives in that truth of the divine Will. So this produces cosmic play, then even in full action, even in possession of the lower being either a revolt or a falsehood. I don't mean that the Jiva remains still one tells lieswith the Lord, but I mean that one and there is no bondage and no delusion. He is in a state possession 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 Self and its importance. But these, if one sees released from the point of view of purity, these are the real impuritiesego.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0623/22the-decemberrelease-1954#p19 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22from-decemberthe-1954ego#p19]p11</ref>
== Purification of Experience ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is obvious that in And so, purification of experience means to make the purity experience sincere and motiveless. To take away all one's motives of its essenceambition and vanity, only that which is perfectly divine can feel that suffering; but partiallyof desire, momentarilypower, like flashes of lightning behind etc. This is called purifying the dark clouds of egoismexperience, making it appears in all who have a vast sincere, spontaneous and generous heart. However, most often, in the individual consciousness not mixing it is mixed with that mean and petty self-pity which is the cause of depression desires and weaknessambitions. NeverthelessThere are spiritual ambitions, when one is vigilant enough to refuse this mixture or at least to reduce it to a minimumhe speaks of them, one soon realises that this divine compassion is based on a sublime and eternal joy which alone has these are even the strength and the power to deliver the world from its ignorance and miserymost dangerous.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1507/512-februaryjanuary-19561955#p5 http:p34<//incarnateword.in/cwm/15/5-february-1956#p5]ref>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga .. experiences can be intense and yet be very mixed in its process of purification will lay bare their truth and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in youtheir character. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them asideIn your experience your own subjectivity, you have to face them sometimes your ego-pushes interfere very much and conquer and remould give them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, their form and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, impression they rush up and invade the beingcreate on you. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, It is only if there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put pure psychic response that the form given to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in experience is likely to be the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently right one and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within the mental and sit upon themvital movements will then present themselves in their true nature. But Otherwise the more you think of a thing and saymind, "I don't want it, I don't want it"the vital, the more you are bound ego give their own colour to itwhat happens, their own turn, very usually their own deformation. What you should do Intensity is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice not a guarantee of entire truth and correctness in an experience; it as possible and, even if you happen to think is only purity of it, remain indifferent the consciousness that can give an entire truth and unconcernedcorrectness.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0330/14the-danger-of-the-ego-apriland-1929#p6 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/14the-need-aprilof-1929purification#p6]p42</ref>
== Ego Key to Purification ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The ego seems to have been indispensable at one time for the formation of the individual consciousness, but with the ego were born all the obstacles, sufferings, difficulties, all that now appears to us as adverse and anti-divine forces. But these forces themselves were a necessity for attaining an inner purification and the liberation from ego. The ego is at once the result of their action and the cause of their prolongation. When the ego disappears, the adverse forces will also disappear, having no longer any reason for their existence in the world.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-fool#p20 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-fool#p20]== Love ===
In this way it is not necessary to introduce the principle of love into the explanation. But if you want to know or understand the nature of the Force or the Power that enables or brings about this transformation—particularly where evil is concerned, but also with ugliness to a certain extent—you see that love is obviously the most potent and integral of all powers—integral in the sense that it applies in all cases. It is even more powerful than the power of purification which dissolves all bad will and which is, as it were, the master of the adverse forces, but which has not the direct power of transformation. The power of purification first dissolves in order to allow the transformation afterwards. It destroys one form in order to be able to create a better one, whereas love need not dissolve in order to transform; it possesses the direct power of transformation. Love is like a flame that changes what is hard into something malleable and even sublimates this malleable thing into a kind of purified vapour—it does not destroy, it transforms. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-49#p12 </ref>
<div style="color:#000000;"center>In human egoism and its satisfaction there can be no divine culmination and deliverance. A certain purification from egoism is the condition even of ethical progress and elevation, for social good and perfection; much more is it indispensable for inner peace, purity and joy. But a much more radical deliverance, not only from egoism but from ego-idea and ego-sense, is needed if our aim is to raise human into divine nature.~</divcenter>
[http://incarnatewordThe love that one contains in silence acts within oneself for purification and transformation.The love that one turns outwards—if one does it in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p2 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/cwsacwm/2317/the24-releasejuly-from-the-ego1934#p2]p3</ref>
=== Surrender ===
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">As There are two possibilities, one of purification by personal effort, which takes a long time, another by a direct intervention of the Divine Grace which is said usually rapid in its action. For the Upanishads, our whole mindlatter there must be a complete surrender and self-consciousness giving and for that again usually it is shot through necessary to have a mind that can remain quite quiet and allow the Divine Force to act supporting it with its complete adhesion at every step, but otherwise remaining still and quiet. This last condition which resembles the threads and currents baby cat attitude spoken of this Pranaby Ramakrishna, this Life-energy that strives is difficult to have. Those who are accustomed to a very active movement of their thought and limitswill in all they do, grasps find it difficult to still the activity and misses, desires adopt the quietude of mental self-giving. This does not mean that they cannot do the Yoga or cannot arrive at self-giving—only the purification and suffers, the self-giving take a long time to accomplish and only by its purification can we know one must have the patience and possess our real steady perseverance and eternal selfresolution to go through.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2329/the-release-from-the-heart-and-the-mind#p4</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:surrender#000000;"> p78</span>ref
= Yoga and Purification = Few Helpful Practices ==
Even if you were the only person in the whole world to give himself entirely and in all purity to the Divine—and thus being alone, misunderstood naturally by everyone upon earth—even if it were so, there is no reason why you should not do it. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/opinions-of-others#p24</ref>
'''Writing'''
<span style="background-color:transparentSometimes it is easier when you write it down;color:#000000;">Thus purificationyou 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, liberationsometimes it is necessary, perfectionsometimes not, delight of being but if you are four constituent elements in a confusion, a kind of the Yogawhirlwind,—śuddhiabove all, muktiif there is a vital upsurge, siddhithe fact of compelling yourself to put it on paper already quietens you, bhuktiit begins the work of purification.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2407/the-perfection30-ofmarch-the-mental-being1955#p12 http:p38 <//incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-perfection-of-the-mental-being#p12]ref>
'''Instrument for Purification'''
<span style="backgroundSelf-color:transparentdenial is a mighty instrument for purification;color:#000000;">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 comethy object.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2910/purityaphorism-352-353-354-355-356#p7</u></spanref>
= 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'''
<span style="background-colorFrankincense:transparent;color:#000000;">The water is the symbol purification of the power of purification and no hostile being or force can resist this power handled with goodwill and sincerityvital.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1215/artschristmas-messages#p151 http:p51<//incarnateword.in/cwm/12/arts#p151]ref>
== Frankincense =='''Agni '''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">FrankincenseAgni: the flame of purification of which must precede all contact with the vitalinvisible worlds.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1514/christmas-messageswill#p51</u>p18</spanref>
== Agni ==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</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>Agni: the flame of purification which must precede all contact with the invisible worlds.~</spancenter>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/will#p18 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/will#p18]
No wall at all—only the pure light, the white flame of purification penetrating right through, from outside inside, from inside outside. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p37 </ref>
<div style="color:#000000;"center>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.~</divcenter>
<span style="background-color:transparentThe fire is always the fire of purification—it is very red when it is acting on the vital;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p35</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">No wall at all—only when the vital no longer covers the pure lightpsychic, then the white flame rose colour of purification penetrating right through, from outside inside, from inside outsidethe psychic comes out more and more.</spanref>[http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/1530/adversesun-forcesmoon-star-fire#p37 http:p38<//incarnateword.in/cwm/15/adverse-forces#p37]ref>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sun-moon-star-fire#p38</u></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is the purification of the physical that is usually indicated in the symbol of burning.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><uref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sun-moon-star-fire#p39</u></spanref>
== Lamb ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is a lamb, which means "purity".</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/symbols#p13 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/symbols#p13]'''Lamb'''
== White ==It is a lamb, which means "purity". <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/symbols#p13</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">'''White indicates a force of purity.</span>[http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/colours#p13 http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/colours#p13]'''
White indicates a force of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/colours#p13</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"center>The white sun indicates the purity and peace of the Divine Consciousness.~</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sun-moon-star-fire#p12</u></spancenter>
The white sun indicates the purity and peace of the Divine Consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/sun-moon-star-fire#p12</ref>
= Recommended practices =
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Even if you were the only person in the whole world to give himself entirely and in all purity to the Divine—and thus being alone, misunderstood naturally '''Content curated by everyone upon earth—even if it were so, there is no reason why you should not do it.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/opinions-of-others#p24</u></span>Aditi Nayan'''
== Writing ==
<span style{|class="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;wikitable">Sometimes it is easier when you write it down; you imagine that I am there and then take a paper and write on it what you wanted to tell me. Then just the very fact of formulating it clearly sometimes gives you the true picture of the situation and you can have the answer more easily. It </span><span style="background-color:transparent#efefff;colorwidth:#000000100%;">depends, sometimes it is necessary, sometimes not, but if you are in a confusion, a kind |Read Summary of whirlwind, above all, if there is a vital upsurge, the fact of compelling yourself to put it on paper already quietens you, it begins the work of purification.</span>'''[[http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/30-march-1955#p38 http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/30-march-1955#p38Purity 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|}
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Self-denial is a mighty instrument for purification; it is not an end in itself nor a final law of living. Not to mortify thyself but to satisfy God in the world must be thy object.</span><span styleReferences="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><u>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-352-353-354-355-356#p7</u></span>