Open main menu

Changes

no edit summary
__NOTOC__
<h1>Purity and Purification Summary</h1>
{|class="wikitable" style= "background-color: #efefff; width: 100%;"
|
'''= What is Purity and Purification''' is the first necessity on the path of Yoga=
= What ='''Purity'''
'''Purity means freedom from soil or mixture. The Quality divine Purity is that in which there is no mixture of Purity'''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> 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>
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. However, 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>
'''The Process of Purification'''
Purification 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://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/hathayoga#p4</ref>
Purification 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 process gnosis. But all this is an instrumental liberation. The freedom of purifying oneself the soul, mukti, is of ignorance a larger and finding and consecrating to more essential character; it is an opening out of mortal limitation into the truth illimitable immortality of the beingSpirit.<ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/the-liberation-of-the-spirit#p1 </ref>
= Why Purify =
You must be pure for Purification and calm are the love 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 puritydisorder and mixture. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwmcwsa/0330/impuritythe-danger-of-the-ego-and-the-need-of-purification#p32p50</ref>
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.
importance of purity also comes through when one sees how 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#p21</ref>
'''Purification in 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>
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> 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 =
1,727

edits