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== Ascetic Purity ==
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Once and for all it swept away not only all the ordinary notions of morality, but everything that is considered here in India as necessary for the spiritual life. From this point of view it was very instructive First of all this kind of so-called ascetic purity. Ascetic purity is simply the rejection of all vital movements; instead of taking up these movements and turning them towards the Divine, that is to say, instead of seeing the supreme Presence in them and letting the Supreme act freely on them, you tell Him, "No, that is not your concern." He is not allowed to interfere with them.</span><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-69#p8</ref></span>
== Moral Versus Spiritual Purification ==
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