What is Purity?

There are many ways to illustrate purity. In terms of value, gold holds a high price because of the purity of the metal, compared to silver, copper and iron. Purity can also be seen as something that is not broken, not corrupted. The innocence of a child can radiate purity.

Just like gold, purity attracts. A pure soul is sweet like honey and not aware of bitterness. Purity is a strength and can hold that strength because there is no leakage of energy. Most energy is being drained by wasteful thinking. A pure mind has focus and can direct it’s energy.

1. Purity refers to a level of higher consciousness where the soul experiences divine qualities like love, peace, happiness, bliss, complete knowledge of self and a sense of higher purpose, all powers required for effective day to day functioning.
2. Purity itself is the most important quality of soul. All souls descending into this world from the soul world were very pure.
3. Purity is complete absence of waste thoughts and unwanted thoughts.
4. Purity refers to a level of higher consciousness where the soul thinks about the benefit of others, the soul respects others and does not cause any sorrow to others.
5. Purity is the foundation based on which other qualities of the soul like love, peace, happiness, bliss, soul consciousness and all powers are experienced easily. Purity is complete absence of lust, anger, greed, attachments, arrogance and all other negative qualities. Purity is a journey where the soul frees itself from all the negative qualities by emerging and staying in the consciousness of positive qualities.
6. A soul can experience purity only by staying in soul consciousness with less or no thoughts of body. A soul has to experience being in soul consciousness with all the original positive qualities of the soul. The soul has to practice seeing others also as souls and should be able to see the positive original qualities of other souls.

Purity is the mother of peace and happiness.

The consciousness of body brings with itself:

1. Lust for bodily beings, lust for possession and power
2. Anger if things do not go your way. If you do not consider all souls as unique with unique habits, intellect and mind, then you become angry if they do not perform according to your wishes.
3. Consciousness of body brings with itself wants and the greed to satisfy wants. A person who does not find satisfaction with original qualities of soul becomes attracted to materialistic world and thereby to greed.
4. Body consciousness brings with itself attachments to spouse, children and other souls, with money , achievements and possessions, with positive qualities of other souls, with possessions.
5. Body consciouness leads to arrogance of what one has – be it our possessions, our temporary superiority in achievements (ridhi siddhi), buying power, seat power, personal talents, looks, materialistic achievements etc.

If there’s purity, there’s truth.

The consciousness of soul brings with itself:

1. Seeing everybody as soul and this body as destructible and temporary costume frees oneself from getting attracted to body. The soul resides in between the forehead and so the self is able to see the actual being and not the costume.
2. Being in peace with the self, the surrounding, all situations, other souls, clarity in understanding the situations, giving positive responses to situations and not reactive responses. The Godly knowledge frees
   the soul from entering into any relationships and situations where the soul will need to get angry.
3. A soul who finds satisfaction in himself and God will need very minimum and still experience extra sensual happiness.
4. Soul consciousness frees the self from attachments to other souls and nature. Other souls are treated as separate human beings with their own mind, intellect and habits different from own mind, intellect and
   habits. The self is able to better understand and appreciate the other souls and be free from attachments and associated false emotions.
5. Soul consciousness uplifts the soul from the materialistic world and the soul is better able to understand, appreciate and adjust to other souls. The soul is able to be in self respect and at the same time respect other souls.

The attitude of purity means to have good wishes and pure feelings for each other.

Practical application of purity:

1. Purity is absence of waste thoughts and unwanted thoughts. The soul is able to be light and so can concentrate and achieve many different activities during the day. Students can learn all subjects very easily
   and without efforts. Working people will be able to do work with ease and feel as if the work is happening automatically and without efforts.
2. Purity improves all relationships with other souls. With purity, you are able to contribute to the spiritual development of other souls. You are able to make the other souls light and are able to be in self
   respect and at the same time are able to respect others as separate souls with independent mind, intellect and habits. Purity solves all problems in relationships.
3. Purity of soul helps in understanding the situations and people better and so respond to situations in a positive and constructive way. Purity frees the soul from being slavery to materialistic senses and helps in
   better decision-making for the self and others.
4. Purity helps in enjoying every moment of life and fills the soul with peace, happiness, bliss and unconditional love. Purity helps in seeing all situations with detachment and so enjoying every situation with peace, happiness, bliss and unconditional love.
5. A pure soul is able to bring positive changes in others and situations as he does not enter into conflicts with others and are able to accept others as they are.
6. A pure soul will always have good feelings and good wishes for others. A pure soul will never come in the way of others’ benefit and growth. A pure soul will never be jealous of others. A pure soul is able to accept others’ success with unconditional love.
7. A pure soul will find ways to themselves be free from sorrow and also never cause sorrow to others.

Overcoming Sorrow By Regaining My Original Texture Of Purity

Unless the soul regains its original sanskars of purity, it cannot escape suffering and grief. Purity is the foundation of peace and bliss. And for purity the soul requires the removal of every trace of negativity. Souls are burdened with the accumulated negative sanskars of their previous births, the extent of which varies from soul to soul. According to the law of karma, the soul has to experience suffering as a result of its wrongful acts. A pure soul does not suffer. The evidence that most human beings are bearing sorrow in some form or the other shows that nowadays souls are carrying a load of negative sanskars resulting from wrong actions committed in this and their past lives.

A question can be asked, “Can a soul be relieved of all its past negative actions through suffering for the same in its present life?” Not really, because due to the cyclic nature of the thought process there is a cumulative effect of negative sanskars which forces the soul to perform more negative actions than it can clear through suffering. That is why the degrees of purity of the soul decrease continuously. The downfall becomes steeper due to the cumulative effect of vices. Negative sanskars give rise to negative thoughts which lead to negative actions, resulting in the formation of still more negative sanskars. Thus, souls are caught in a downward spiral from which they are unable to release themselves. Meditation, however, opens the door to God, and through rising above all physical laws, one can set oneself free from the effects of all wrong actions. Through connection with the purest Supreme Soul, the sanskars of the soul are automatically purified and it moves further towards its original state of purity, peace and bliss.

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