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<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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.</span> <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p14 </ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Ignorance All purification is not a state of innocence or purityrelease, a delivery; that for it is an old blunder. Only a consciousness full throwing away of light can be pure. For instancelimiting, when you are consciousbinding, your mind is clear obscuring imperfections and you have confusions: purification from desire brings the freedom of the right ideas about things psychic prana, purification from wrong emotions and people; your troubling reactions the freedom of the heart, purification from the obscuring limited thought of the sense mind is pure the freedom of the intelligence, purification from mere intellectuality the freedom of ignorancethe gnosis. But when all this is an instrumental liberation. The freedom of the mind is clouded by some impuritysoul,—saymukti, anger, jealousy or pride or some unreasonable desire,—you at once become ignorant is of a larger and mistake and misunderstand everythingmore essential character; it is an opening out of mortal limitation into the illimitable immortality of the Spirit.</span><ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2924/puritythe-liberation-of-the-spirit#p19 p1 </ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">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 Purification—rejecting from the obscuring limited thought of the sense mind the freedom of the intelligence, purification from mere intellectuality the freedom of the gnosis. But one's nature all this that is an instrumental liberation. The freedom egoistic or of the soul, mukti, is nature of a larger and more essential character; it is an opening out of mortal limitation into the illimitable immortality of the Spiritrajasic desire.</span> <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/2429/the-liberation-of-the-spiritpurity#p1 p2 </ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Perfect purity is to be, to be ever more If one lives only for the Divine and moreby the Divine, in there follows a selfperfect purity.</span><span style="background-perfecting becoming. One must never pretend that one iscolor:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http: one must be, spontaneously//incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p5</ref></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">On earth, true purity is to think as the Divine thinks, to will as the Divine wills, to feel as the Divine feels. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/0914/12-june-1957purity#p11 p3 </ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purification—rejecting from one's nature To be pure, what does it mean? One is truly perfectly pure only when the whole being, in all that its elements and all its movements, adheres fully, exclusively, to the divine Will. This indeed is egoistic total purity. It does not depend on any moral or social law, any mental convention of any kind. It depends exclusively on this: when all the nature elements and all the movements of rajasic desire.the being adhere exclusively </span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and totally to the divine Will. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2906/purity22-december-1954#p2 p18 </ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">This And yet for the sake of completeness it should be added that because man is a mental being, he must necessarily in the course of his evolution leave behind this unconscious and spontaneous purity, which is very similar to accept no other influence but only the influence purity of the animal, and after passing through an unavoidable period of mental perversion and impurity, rise beyond the Divinemind into the higher and luminous purity of the divine consciousness.</span> <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1410/purityaphorism-30#p2 p6 </ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">If one lives only for the Divine and by the Divine, there follows a perfect purity.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p5</ref></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">On earth, true purity is to think as the Divine thinks, to will as the Divine wills, to feel as the Divine feels.</span> <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p3 </ref>  <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Sri Aurobindo does not use the word purity in the ordinary moral sense. For him, "purity" means "exclusively under the influence of the Divine", expressing only the Divine.</span> <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-282#p2 </ref>  <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">To be pure, what does it mean? One is truly perfectly pure only when the whole being, in all its elements and all its movements, adheres fully, exclusively, to the divine Will. This indeed is total purity. It does not depend on any moral or social law, any mental convention of any kind. It depends exclusively on this: when all the elements and all the movements of the being adhere exclusively </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and totally to the divine Will.</span> <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-december-1954#p18 </ref> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">And yet for the sake of completeness it should be added that because man is a mental being, he must necessarily in the course of his evolution leave behind this unconscious and spontaneous purity, which is very similar to the purity of the animal, and after passing through an unavoidable period of mental perversion and impurity, rise beyond the mind into the higher and luminous purity of the divine consciousness.</span> <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-30#p6 </ref> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purity is perfect sincerity and one cannot have it unless the being is entirely consecrated to the Divine.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/purity#p6</ref></span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purity or impurity depends upon the consciousness; in the divine consciousness everything is pure, in the ignorance everything is subject to impurity, not the body only or part of the body, but mind and vital and all. Only the self and the psychic being remain always pure.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/purity#p16</ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">That was the wisdom of the Buddha who spoke of "the Middle Way": neither too much of this nor too much of that, neither falling into this nor falling into that—a little of everything and a balanced way... but pure. Purity and sincerity are the same thing.</span> <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-103-104-105-106-107#p77 </ref></span>

<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">So too the word "impurity". Pure, as it is understood morally, has not at all the meaning it is given in a truly spiritual teaching; and particularly from the Buddhist standpoint, purity is absence of ignorance, as I have already told you last time, and ignorance means ignoring the inner law, the truth of the being. And loyalty means not to take the illusion for the reality, the changing and fluctuating appearances for the inner and real permanence of the being.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#0066cc;"><ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/conjugate-verses#p62 </ref></span>