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<div style="color:#666666;">The first necessity on the path of Yoga</div>What is Purity and Purification =
= What ='''Purity'''
<span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Purification Purity means freedom from soil or mixture. The divine Purity is that in which there is the removal no mixture of all aberrations, disorders, obstructions brought about by the mixed and irregular actions turbid ignorant movements of the energy of lower nature. Ordinarily purity is used to mean (in the being in our physical, moral common language) freedom from vital passion and mental systemimpulse. </spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;colorhttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#000000;">.p14 </spanref>
This is purity, to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p2 </ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">As soon as If one speaks of purity, a moral monument comes in front of us lives only for the Divine and falsifies by the notion. Is it possible to be pure? Does purity mean “doing all the right things”? Does purity require one to renounce the world? These are common questions. HoweverDivine, there follows a perfect purity has nothing to do with righteousness and asceticism. However, </spanref><span style="background-colorhttp://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#ffff00;color:#000000;">purity is simply the quality of the soul and purification the process of taking up the vital movements of ‘desire, impulses, force-pushes, emotions, sensations, seekings after life-fulfilment, possession and enjoyment’ and turning them towards the Divine.p5</spanref>
= Why =As soon as one speaks of purity, we get an image of a saintly moralism amounting to “doing all the right things”. However, purity has nothing to do with righteousness and asceticism. Purity is simply the quality of the soul and purification the process of taking up the ordinary habitual surface movements of the instruments of the being - vital, mental and physical - and vital movements and turning them towards the Divine. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-69#p8</ref>
<div style="color:#666666;">You must be pure for the love of purity.</div>'''Purification'''
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The world will be made better only in proportion as we make ourselves better. The ills that humanity suffers from - collectively Purification is the removal of all aberrations, disorders, obstructions brought about by the mixed and individually - stem from irregular actions of the errors that lie at energy of the roots of being in our ignorant naturephysical, moral and mental system.</spanref><span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We are the deforming intermediary between the purity of the animal and divine purity of the gods/incarnateword.<in/cwsa/span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> <23/span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:hathayoga#000000;">Purification is the process of purifying oneself of ignorance and finding and consecrating to the truth of the being. p4</spanref>
All purification is a release, a delivery; for it is a throwing away of limiting, binding, obscuring imperfections and confusions: purification from desire brings the freedom of the psychic prana, purification from wrong emotions and troubling reactions the freedom 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 the Spirit. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-liberation-of-the-spirit#p1 </ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">From a yogic perspective, purification is of utmost importance. All yoga proceeds in its methods by three principles of practice - purification, concentration and consummation.</span><span styleWhy ="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The importance of purification also emerges from the Gita and Patanjali’s Yoga-sutras. The Gita says that knowledge is the most sovereign purity, light is the source of clearness and harmony; darkness of ignorance is the cause of all stumblings.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Patanjali’s Yoga-sutras insists first on a moral purification of the mentality - divided into yamas (self-discipline by which rajasic egoism and it's passion and desires are conquered and quieted) and niyamas (discipline of the mind by regular practice of medication).</span>
== Power The world will be made better only in proportion as we make ourselves better. The ills that humanity suffers from - collectively and individually - stem from the errors that lie at the roots of Purification ==our ignorant nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/helping-others-and-the-world#p23</ref> Thus, purification of our nature is central to making the world better.
We are the deforming intermediary between the purity of the animal and divine purity of the gods. <div style="colorref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/19-july-1958#000000;"p13</ref>With inner liberationThus, total sincerity and perfect purity, all sufferings shall end, because they will no longer be required for the progress process of consciousnesspurification is central to our evolution.</div>
= How =Purification and calm are the first needs in the Yoga. One may have a great wealth of experiences of that kind (worlds, visions, voices etc.) without them, but these experiences occurring in an unpurified and troubled consciousness are usually full of disorder and mixture. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p50</ref> With inner liberation, total sincerity and perfect purity, all sufferings ends because they will no longer be required for the progress of consciousness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-fool#p20</ref>
== '''Purification of the Mental Being ==and Traditional Yoga'''
From a yogic perspective, purification is of utmost importance. All yoga proceeds in its methods by three principles of practice - purification, concentration and consummation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p4</ref>
The importance of purification also emerges from the Gita and Patanjali’s Yoga-sutras. The Gita sees the darkness of ignorance is the cause of all stumblings and purification through Self-knowledge as the most sovereign purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p3</ref>
<span style="backgroundPatanjali’s Yoga-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">The most effective way for sutras insists first on a moral purification for of the mental being is to draw back, to stand as the passive witness mentality - divided into yamas (self-discipline by which rajasic egoism and it's passion and observe desires are conquered and know himself quieted) and niyamas (discipline of the workings mind by regular practice 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 beingmeditation).</spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;colorhttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/rajayoga#000000;"> p5</spanref>
= How =
<div style="color:#000000;">It is better to keep '''Purification of the thoughts fixed on purity, light and peace that one wants to acquire, instead of thinking too much about one’s impurities.</div>Mental Being'''
== Purification The most effective way for purification for the mental being is 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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-action-of -the Vital Being ==-divine-shakti#p7</ref>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The first step in purification is to rid the prana '''Purification of desire and turn the vital being from dominant power to obedient instrument of free mind.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purification of experience means to make it sincere and motiveless (i.e. to take away motives of ambition and vanity of desires and power). </span>Vital Being'''
The first step in purification is to rid the prana of desire and turn the vital being from dominant power to obedient instrument of free mind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p7</ref> Purification of experience means to make it sincere and motiveless (i.e. to take away motives of ambition and vanity of desires and power). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/12-january-1955#p34</ref>
<span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">The most important thing for purification of the heart is absolute sincerity </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">- no pretence with oneself, no concealment from the Divine or oneself, a straight look at oneself, a straight will to make them straight.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p42</spanref>
If you are in confusion, if there is a vital upsurge, the fact of compelling yourself to put it on paper already quietens you, it begins the work of purification. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/30-march-1955#p38</ref>
<div style="color:#000000;">If you are in confusion, 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.</div>'''Release from Ego'''
The ego is by its nature a smallness of being; it brings contraction of the consciousness and with the contraction limitation of knowledge, disabling ignorance,—confinement and a diminution of power and by that diminution incapacity and weakness,—scission of oneness and by that scission disharmony and failure of sympathy and love and understanding,—inhibition or fragmentation of delight of being and by that fragmentation pain and sorrow. To recover what is lost we must break out of the walls of ego. The ego must either disappear in impersonality or fuse into a larger I: it must fuse into the wider cosmic “I” which comprehends all these smaller selves or the transcendent of which even the cosmic self is a diminished image. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p2</ref>
== '''Integral Purification =='''
<div style="color:#000000;">First necessity of preparation is purification of Purification to be effective must be integral. It must take along all members parts of being. For instance, Purification of understanding shall open the door of Truth but it cannot happen if no purification of other members of the being has been initiated. For instance, love Love is the purifier of the heart, however, this heart’s love of man may lead to distortion and exaggeration in feelings, actions and knowledge which have to be corrected and prevented by purification of understanding. Purification of understanding is the most potent cleanser of the turbid and disordered being.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p3</divref>
= Purification in Integral Yoga =
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#666666;">A certain amount of purification is necessary before there can be any realisation of the Divine. </spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;colorhttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#666666;"> p1</spanref>
<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.</spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;colorhttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#000000;"> p78</spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The In both instances, the fire of purification must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name on it.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p14</spanref>
Purification, in integral yoga, is to make oneself a clear mirror in which the divine reality can be reflected, a clear vessel and an unobstructing vessel into which the divine presence and through which the divine influence can be poured. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-higher-and-the-lower-knowledge#p6</ref> It means a bringing down of the Divine Consciousness static and dynamic into all parts of the being and the entire replacement of the present consciousness by that. Integral purification, in integral yoga, &nbsp;enables perfect reflection of the divine being in ourselves and perfect outpouring of Truth and law in us. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-synthesis-of-the-systems#p19</ref>
<span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Integral purification enables perfect reflection of the divine being in ourselves and perfect outpouring of Truth and law in us</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">Purification is to make the oneself a clear mirror in which the divine reality can be reflected, a clear vessel and an unobstructing vessel into which the divine presence and through which the divine influence can be poured.</span><span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;"> </span>
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