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>
Ignorance This is purity, to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p2 </ref> Sri Aurobindo does not a state of innocence or use the word purity; that is an old blunder. Only a consciousness full of light can be purein the ordinary moral sense. For instancehim, when you are conscious, your mind is clear and you have "purity" means "exclusively under the right ideas about things and people; your mind is pure influence of ignorance. But when the mind is clouded by some impurityDivine",—say, anger, jealousy or pride or some unreasonable desire,—you at once become ignorant and mistake and misunderstand everythingexpressing only the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2910/purityaphorism-282#p19 p2 </ref>
All purification is a releaseTo be pure, a delivery; for what does it mean? One is a throwing away of limitingtruly perfectly pure only when the whole being, binding, obscuring imperfections in all its elements and confusions: purification from desire brings the freedom of the psychic pranaall its movements, purification from wrong emotions and troubling reactions the freedom of the heartadheres fully, purification from the obscuring limited thought of the sense mind the freedom of the intelligenceexclusively, purification from mere intellectuality to the freedom of the gnosisdivine Will. But all this This indeed is an instrumental liberationtotal purity. The freedom It does not depend on any moral or social law, any mental convention of any kind. It depends exclusively on this: when all the soul, mukti, is of a larger elements and more essential character; it is an opening out all the movements of mortal limitation into the illimitable immortality of being adhere exclusively and totally to the Spiritdivine Will. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2406/the22-liberation-of-thedecember-spirit1954#p1 p18 </ref>
Perfect 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 bethe purity of the animal, to be ever more and moreafter passing through an unavoidable period of mental perversion and impurity, in a self-perfecting becoming. One must never pretend that one is: one must be, spontaneouslyrise beyond the mind into the higher and luminous purity of the divine consciousness. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0910/12-juneaphorism-195730#p11 p6 </ref>
Purification—rejecting from one's nature all that Purity or impurity depends upon the consciousness; in the divine consciousness everything is pure, in the ignorance everything is egoistic subject to impurity, not the body only or part of the nature of rajasic desirebody, but mind and vital and all. Only the self and the psychic being remain always pure. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p2 p16</ref>
This is purity, to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p2 </ref>'''Perfect Purity'''
If one lives only for the Divine and by the Divine, there follows a perfect purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p5</ref>
On earth, true Perfect purity is to think as the Divine thinks, to will as the Divine willsbe, to feel as the Divine feels. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p3 </ref> Sri Aurobindo does not use the word purity in the ordinary moral sense. For him, "purity" means "exclusively under the influence of the Divine", expressing only the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-282#p2 </ref> To be pure, what does it mean? One is truly perfectly pure only when the whole being, in all its elements ever more and all its movements, adheres fully, exclusively, to the divine Will. This indeed is total purity. It does not depend on any moral or social lawmore, any mental convention of any kind. It depends exclusively on this: when all the elements and all the movements of the being adhere exclusively and totally to the divine Will. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22a self-december-1954#p18 </ref> And yet for the sake of completeness it should be added perfecting becoming. One must never pretend that because man one is a mental being, he : one 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 impuritybe, rise beyond the mind into the higher and luminous purity of the divine consciousnessspontaneously. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1009/aphorism12-june-301957#p6 p11 </ref>
Purity is perfect sincerity and one cannot have it unless the being is entirely consecrated to the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p6</ref>
Purity or impurity depends upon the consciousness; in the divine consciousness everything is pureOn earth, in the ignorance everything true purity is subject to impuritythink as the Divine thinks, not the body only or part of to will as the bodyDivine wills, but mind and vital and all. Only the self and to feel as the psychic being remain always pureDivine feels. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2914/purity#p16p3 </ref>
== Buddhist's view ==
There is another danger; it is in connection with the sex impulses. Yoga in its process of purification will lay bare and throw up all hidden impulses and desires in you. And you must learn not to hide things nor leave them aside, you have to face them and conquer and remould them. The first effect of Yoga, however, is to take away the mental control, and the hungers that lie dormant are suddenly set free, they rush up and invade the being. So long as this mental control has not been replaced by the Divine control, there is a period of transition when your sincerity and surrender will be put to the test. The strength of such impulses as those of sex lies usually in the fact that people take too much notice of them; they protest too vehemently and endeavour to control them by coercion, hold them within and sit upon them. But the more you think of a thing and say, "I don't want it, I don't want it", the more you are bound to it. What you should do is to keep the thing away from you, to dissociate from it, take as little notice of it as possible and, even if you happen to think of it, remain indifferent and unconcerned. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/14-april-1929#p6 </ref>
You must be good for the love of goodness, you must be just for the love of justice, you must be pure for the love of purity and you must be disinterested for the love of disinterestedness; then you are sure to advance on the way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p32</ref>
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>
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