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= What is Purity and Purification? =
[[File:Purif 1.png|center|1000px]]'''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>
This is purity, to accept no other influence but only the influence of the Divine. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p2 </ref>
[[FileIf one lives only for the Divine and by the Divine, there follows a perfect purity. <ref>http:Purif 2//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]in/cwm/14/purity#p5</ref>
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>
'''Purification'''
[[FilePurification is the removal of all aberrations, disorders, obstructions brought about by the mixed and irregular actions of the energy of the being in our physical, moral and mental system. <ref>http:Purif 3//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p4</ref>
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>
= Why is Purification Important?=
[[FileThe 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 our ignorant nature. <ref>http:Purif 4//incarnateword.in/cwm/14/helping-others-and-the-world#p23</ref> Thus, purification of our nature is central to making the world better.png|center|1000px]]
We are the deforming intermediary between the purity of the animal and divine purity of the gods. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/19-july-1958#p13</ref> Thus, the process of purification is central to our evolution.
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>
[[FileWith inner liberation, total sincerity and perfect purity, all sufferings ends because they will no longer be required for the progress of consciousness. <ref>http:Purif 5//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]in/cwm/03/the-fool#p20</ref>
'''Purification 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>
[[FileThe 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:Purif 6//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p3</ref>
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 meditation). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/rajayoga#p5</ref>
= How to Purify Oneself? =
[[File:Purif 7.png|center|1000px]]__NOTOC__'''Purification of the Mental Being'''
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. <h1ref>Purification Summaryhttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-action-of-the-divine-shakti#p7</h1ref>
{|class="wikitable" style= "background-color: #efefff; width: 100%;"| =Purification= The first necessity on the path of Yoga = What = '''The Quality Purification of Puritythe Vital Being'''
As soon as one speaks of purity, we get an image of a saintly moralism amounting The first step in purification is to “doing all rid the right things”. However, purity has nothing to do with righteousness prana of desire and asceticism. However, purity is simply turn the quality vital being from dominant power to obedient instrument of the soul and free mind. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification -the process -lower-mentality#p7</ref> Purification of taking up the ordinary habitual surface movements experience means to make it sincere and motiveless (i.e. to take away motives of the instruments ambition and vanity of the being desires and power). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/12- vital, mental and physical january- and vital movements and turning them towards the Divine.1955#p34</ref>
'''The Process most important thing for purification of Purification'''the heart is absolute sincerity - 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</ref>
Purification If you are in confusion, if there is a vital upsurge, the removal fact of all aberrations, disorderscompelling yourself to put it on paper already quietens you, obstructions brought about by it begins the mixed and irregular actions work of the energy of the being purification. <ref>http://incarnateword.in our physical, moral and mental system. /cwm/07/30-march-1955#p38</ref>
Purification is the process of purifying oneself of ignorance and finding and consecrating to the truth of the being.'''Release from Ego'''
= Why = You must be pure for the love of purity. 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 our ignorant ego is by its nature. Thus, purification a smallness of our nature is central to making the world better.  We are the deforming intermediary between the purity being; it brings contraction of the animal consciousness and divine purity with the contraction limitation of the gods. Thusknowledge, the process of purification is central to our evolution.  importance of purity also comes through when one sees how with inner liberationdisabling ignorance, total sincerity —confinement and perfect purity, all sufferings ends because they will no longer be required for the progress of consciousness. == Purification in Yoga == From a yogic perspective, purification is diminution of utmost importance. All yoga proceeds in its methods power and by three principles of practice - purificationthat diminution incapacity and weakness, concentration and consummation. The importance —scission of purification also emerges from the Gita oneness and Patanjali’s Yoga-sutras. The Gita sees the darkness of ignorance is the cause of all stumblings by that scission disharmony and purification through Self-knowledge as the most sovereign purity. Patanjali’s Yoga-sutras insists first on a moral purification failure of the mentality - divided into yamas (self-discipline by which rajasic egoism sympathy and it's passion love and desires are conquered and quieted) and niyamas (discipline understanding,—inhibition or fragmentation of the mind by regular practice delight of meditation). = How = '''Purification of the Mental Being''' The most effective way for purification for the mental being is to draw back, to stand as the passive witness and observe by that fragmentation pain 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 beingsorrow.  It To recover what is better to keep lost we must break out of the thoughts fixed on purity, light and peace that one wants to acquire, instead walls of thinking too much about one’s impuritiesego'''Purification of the Vital Being''' The first step ego must either disappear in purification is to rid impersonality or fuse into a larger I: it must fuse into the prana of desire and turn wider cosmic “I” which comprehends all these smaller selves or the vital being from dominant power to obedient instrument of free mind. Purification of experience means to make it sincere and motiveless (i.e. to take away motives of ambition and vanity of desires and power).  The most important thing for purification transcendent of which even the heart cosmic self is absolute sincerity - no pretence with oneself, no concealment from the Divine or oneself, a straight look at oneself, a straight will to make them straightdiminished image. <ref>http://incarnatewordIf you are in confusion, if there is a vital upsurge, /cwsa/23/the fact of compelling yourself to put it on paper already quietens you, it begins -release-from-the work of purification.-ego#p2</ref>
'''Integral Purification'''
Purification to be effective must be integral. It must take along all parts of being. For instance, Purification 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. 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</ref>
= Purification in Integral Yoga =
A certain amount of purification is necessary before there can be any realisation of the Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p1</ref>
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. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#p78</ref> 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</ref>
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>
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