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= What =
 
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<span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">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</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span>
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== The Quality of Purity  ==
  
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span>
  
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">As soon as one speaks of purity, a moral monument comes in front of us and falsifies 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. However, purity has nothing to do with righteousness and asceticism. However, </span><span style="background-color:#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.</span>
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== The Process of Purification ==
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span>
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<div style="color:#000000;">Purification is the process of purifying oneself of ignorance and finding and consecrating to the truth of the being. </div>
  
 
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<div style="color:#666666;">You must be pure for the love of purity.</div>
 
<div style="color:#666666;">You must be pure for the love of purity.</div>
  
<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 and individually - stem from the errors that lie at the roots of our ignorant nature.</span><span style="background-color: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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purification is the process of purifying oneself of ignorance and finding and consecrating to the truth of the being. </span>
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<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 and individually - stem from the errors that lie at the roots of our ignorant nature.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Thus, purification of our nature is central to making the world better. </span>
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We are the deforming intermediary between the purity of the animal and divine purity of the gods.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Thus, the process of purification is central to our evolution. </span>
  
  
<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 style="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>
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<div style="color:#000000;">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.</div>
  
== Power of Purification ==
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== Purification in Yoga ==
  
<div style="color:#000000;">With inner liberation, total sincerity and perfect purity, all sufferings shall end, because they will no longer be required for the progress of consciousness.</div>
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<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 style="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 sees the 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;">and purification through Self-knowledge as the most sovereign purity. 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).</span>
  
 
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== Purification of the Mental Being ==
 
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span>
 
 
<span style="background-color:#ffff00;color:#000000;">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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span>
 
  
  
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</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>
 
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</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>
  
 
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<span style="background-color:transparent;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.</span>
<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.</span>
 
  
  
 
<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>
 
<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>
 
  
 
== Integral Purification ==
 
== Integral Purification ==
  
<div style="color:#000000;">First necessity of preparation is purification of all members of being. 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 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.</div>
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<div style="color:#000000;">Purification to be effective must be integral. It must take along all 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. 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.</div>
  
 
= Purification in Integral Yoga =
 
= Purification in Integral Yoga =
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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#666666;">A certain amount of purification is necessary before there can be any realisation of the Divine</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#666666;"> </span>
 
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#666666;">A certain amount of purification is necessary before there can be any realisation of the Divine</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#666666;"> </span>
  
<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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The fire of purification must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name on it.</span>
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<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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">In both instances, the fire of purification must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name on it.</span>
  
  
<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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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span>
  
  
<div style="color:#000000;">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.</div>
 
  
  
 
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Purification
The first necessity on the path of Yoga

What

The Quality of Purity

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.

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.


Purification is the process of purifying oneself of ignorance and finding and consecrating to the truth of the being.

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 nature. 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. Thus, the process of purification is central to our evolution.


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.

Purification in 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. 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. 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).

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 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.


It is better to keep the thoughts fixed on purity, light and peace that one wants to acquire, instead of thinking too much about one’s impurities.

Purification of the 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. 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 of 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.


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.

Integral Purification

Purification to be effective must be integral. It must take along all 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. 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.

Purification in Integral Yoga

A certain amount of purification is necessary before there can be any realisation of the Divine

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. In both instances, the fire of purification must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name on it.


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. 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,  enables perfect reflection of the divine being in ourselves and perfect outpouring of Truth and law in us.



Purification Compilation