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= What is Purity and Purification =
'''Purity'''
[[FilePurity 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:Purif 1//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]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>
[[FileAs 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:Purif 2//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]in/cwm/10/aphorism-69#p8</ref>
'''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>
[[FileAll purification is a release, a delivery; for it is a throwing away of limiting, binding, obscuring imperfections and confusions:Purif 3purification 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.png|center|1000px]]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 =
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.
[[FileWe are the deforming intermediary between the purity of the animal and divine purity of the gods. <ref>http:Purif 4//incarnateword.in/cwm/15/19-july-1958#p13</ref> Thus, the process of purification is central to our evolution.png|center|1000px]]
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>
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#p20</ref>
[[File:Purif 5.png|center|1000px]]'''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>
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>
[[FilePatanjali’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:Purif 6//incarnateword.png|center|1000px]]in/cwsa/23/rajayoga#p5</ref>
= How =
'''Purification of the Mental Being'''
[[File:Purif 7.png|center|1000px]]  <div style="color:#000000;">Purification</div> <div style="color:#666666;">The first necessity on most effective way for purification for the path of Yoga</div> = What = == The Quality of Purity == <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">As soon as one speaks of purity, we get an image of a saintly moralism amounting mental being is to “doing all the right things”. Howeverdraw back, purity has nothing to do with righteousness and asceticism. However, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">purity is simply the quality of stand as the soul passive witness and purification the process of taking up the ordinary habitual surface movements of the instruments of the being - vital, mental and physical - observe and vital movements know himself and turning them towards the Divine.</span> == The Process workings of Purification == <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Purification is Nature in the removal of all aberrationslower, disorders, obstructions brought about by the mixed and irregular actions of the energy of the normal 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> <span style="color:#000000;">Purification is the process of purifying oneself of ignorance and finding and consecrating to the truth of the being. </span> = Why = <div style="color:#000000;">You but this must be pure combined, for the love of purity.</div> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The world perfection, with a will be made better only in proportion as we make ourselves better. The ills that humanity suffers from - collectively and individually - stem from to raise the errors that lie at purified nature into the roots of our ignorant naturehigher spiritual being.</spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;colorhttp:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Thus, purification of our nature is central to making the world better. </span> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We are the deforming intermediary between the purity of the animal and divine purity of the godsincarnateword.<in/span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> <cwsa/span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Thus, the process of purification is central to our evolution. <24/span> <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> == Purification in Yoga == <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="backgroundaction-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="backgrounddivine-color:transparent;color:shakti#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).p7</spanref= How = == Purification of the Mental Being ==
<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 '''Purification 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>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. <div style="colorref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#000000;"p7</ref>It is better Purification of experience means to keep the thoughts fixed on purity, light make it sincere and peace that one wants motiveless (i.e. to acquire, instead take away motives of thinking too much about one’s impuritiesambition and vanity of desires and power). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/12-january-1955#p34</divref>
== Purification The most important thing for purification of the Vital Being ==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>
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The first step If you are in purification confusion, if there is to rid a vital upsurge, the prana fact of desire and turn compelling yourself to put it on paper already quietens you, it begins the vital being from dominant power to obedient instrument work of free mindpurification.</spanref><span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background/incarnateword.in/cwm/07/30-march-color:transparent;color:1955#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). p38</spanref>
<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 '''Release from the Divine or oneself, a straight look at oneself, a straight will to make them straight.</span>Ego'''
<div style="color:#000000The ego is by its nature a smallness of being;">If you are in confusionit brings contraction of the consciousness and with the contraction limitation of knowledge, disabling ignorance, if there is —confinement and a vital upsurgediminution of power and by that diminution incapacity and weakness,—scission of oneness and by that scission disharmony and failure of sympathy and love and understanding, —inhibition or fragmentation of delight of being and by that fragmentation pain and sorrow. To recover what is lost we must break out of the fact walls of compelling yourself to put ego. The ego must either disappear in impersonality or fuse into a larger I: it on paper already quietens you, it begins must fuse into the wider cosmic “I” which comprehends all these smaller selves or the work transcendent of purificationwhich even the cosmic self is a diminished image.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-release-from-the-ego#p2</divref>
== '''Integral Purification =='''
<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.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-purified-understanding#p3</divref>
= Purification in Integral Yoga =
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#666666;">A certain amount of purification is necessary before there can be any realisation of the Divine. </spanref><span style="background-colorhttp: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 /incarnateword.in its action.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> <cwsa/29/span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:purity#000000;">In both instances, the fire of purification must be lit into which all is thrown with the Divine Name on it.p1</spanref
<span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">PurificationThere are two possibilities, in integral yoga, is to make oneself one of purification by personal effort which takes a clear mirror in which the divine reality can be reflectedlong time, another by a clear vessel and an unobstructing vessel into which direct intervention of the divine presence and through Divine Grace which the divine influence can be pouredis usually rapid in its action.</spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;colorhttp://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/surrender#000000;"> p78</spanref><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">It means a bringing down In both instances, the fire of the Divine Consciousness static and dynamic purification must be lit into which all parts of is thrown with the being and the entire replacement of the present consciousness by thatDivine Name on it. Integral purification, in integral yoga, &nbsp;enables perfect reflection of the divine being in ourselves and perfect outpouring of Truth and law in us</spanref><span style="background-colorhttp:transparent;color:#000000;">//incarnateword.<in/cwsa/23/span><span style="backgroundthe-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-color:transparent;color:ii#000000;"> p14</spanref>
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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