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<div span style="color:#000000;">To rid the prana of desire and incidentally to reverse the ordinary poise of our nature and turn the vital being from a troublesomely dominant power into the obedient instrument of a free and unattached mind, is then the first step in purification. As this deformation of the psychical prana is corrected, the purification of the rest of the intermediary parts of the antaḥkaraṇa is facilitated, and when that correction is completed, their purification too can be easily made absolute. </div><div style="color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p7</ref></divspan>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The systematic purification It is the inner offering of the whole being for an integral reflection and taking heart's adoration, the soul of it in the symbol, the spirit of it in the divine reality can only be done by act, that is the special methods very life of Yogathe sacrifice. Its absolute concentration has If this offering is to be complete and universal, then a turning of all our emotions to take the place of Divine is imperative. This is the dispersed concentrations intensest way of purification for the lower knowledge; the vague human heart, more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and ineffective identification 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 lower knowledge can bringemotions 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, has 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 replaced by . It is this poured out into acts that could alone create a harmony in the complete, intimate, imperative world and living union which Yoga bringsa 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.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higherascent-andof-the-lowersacrifice-knowledgeii#p9p14</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It is the inner offering of the heart's adoration, the soul of it in the symbol, the spirit of it in the act, that is the very life of the sacrifice. If this offering is to be complete and universal, then a turning of all our emotions to the Divine is imperative. This is the intensest way of purification for the human heart, more powerful than any ethical or aesthetic catharsis could ever be by its half-power and superficial pressure. A psychic fire within must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name upon it. In that fire all the emotions are compelled to cast off their grosser elements and those that are undivine perversions are burned away and the others discard their insufficiencies, till a spirit of largest love and a stainless divine delight arises out of the flame and smoke and frankincense. It is the divine love which so emerges that, extended in inward feeling to the Divine in man and all creatures in an active universal equality, will be more potent for the perfectibility of life and a more real instrument than the ineffective mental ideal of brotherhood can ever be. It is this poured out into acts that could alone create a harmony in the world and a true unity between all its creatures; all else strives in vain towards that end so long as Divine Love has not disclosed itself as the heart of the delivered manifestation in terrestrial Nature.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p14</ref>  <div style="color:#000000;">It has been seen that a most effective way of purification is for the mental Purusha to draw back, to stand as the passive witness and observe and know himself and the workings of Nature in 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. </div> <div style="color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-action-of-the-divine-shakti#p7</ref></div>  <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">...you must add the Force of spiritual purification which is such an absolutely perfectly constructive force that nothing that's in the least destructive can survive there. If you have this Force at your disposal or if you can ask for it and get it, you direct it on the spot and the adverse force usually runs away immediately, for if it happens to be in the midst of this Force it gets dissolved, it </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">disappears; for no force of disintegration can survive within this Force; therefore disintegration disappears and with it that also disappears. It can be changed into a constructive force, that is possible, or it may be simply dissolved and reduced to nothing. And with that not only is the illness cured, but all possibility of its return is also eliminated. You are cured of the illness once for all, it never comes back.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p62</ref></span>