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Read more about '''[[Purity and Purification Compilation|Purity and Purification]]''' from the works of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo.
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= What is Purity and Purification ? =
'''Purity'''
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?=
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 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.
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? =
'''Purification of the Mental Being'''
'''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 =