Purity is the process through which the life-rhythm manifests; the rhythm of that indwelling spirit which has worked through the ages in mineral and plant in animal and man. For its effort through all these experiences is to arrive at that realisation where it finds itself pure, pure in essence, and pure from all that could affect its original condition.
When a person is said to be pure-minded we find first of all faith, the natural tendency to trust; then love the natural tendency towards friendliness and affection, then hope and the natural expectancy of joy and happiness.
As the mind grows and is fed by the life in the world, unnatural things are added to it and for the moment these additions seem desirable, useful, or beautiful; they build another kind of mind which is sometimes called the ego or the false self.
The first kind of purity of the physical world in which man has to obey the laws of cleanliness and of hygiene.
The second kind is shown in a man’s social, moral and religious attitudes.
No man can judge another, it is a man’s self that must be his judge. Therefore, it is no use to make rigsd standards of moral or social purity.
Religion has made these rigid standards and taught them, yet the prisons are full of criminals and newspapers are daily more eloquent about the faults of humanity.
No external law can stop crime. It is man himself who should understand and discriminate between good and evil
The soul is forever seeking something that will allow it to express itself and give it freedom and comfort in this physical life.
In reality, the whole life is tending towards freedom, towards the unfoldment of something which is chocked up by physical life, and the freedom can be gained by true purity of life.
Purity at heart, the constant effort to keep the heart pure from all the impressions and are foreign to the true nature of the heart, which is love. This can only be done by a continual watchfulness over one’s attitude towards others; by overlooking their faults, by forgiving their shortcomings, by judging no-one except oneself. For all harsh judgements and bitterness towards others are like poison in the blood: the result must be a disease.
The heart needs to be attuned to the high ideals, by good thoughts, by righteous actions and there comes a still greater purity in which all that is seen or felt and all that is touched or admired is perceived by God.
0Virtue is not a thing which he expresses or experiences from time to time, his life itself is virtue.
