The Concept of Spiritual Purity in the Integral Yoga

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For most people Purity is
connected with a moral precept

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and foremost.
This is eventually, been related

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to the question of sexual
relations.

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The question of Chastity and
withholding of sexual activity.

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Until the socially sanctioned
relationship of marriage has

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been put in place, hold to a
central place in most cultural

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ideas of purity.
The requirement of Chastity

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outside of the context of
membership and a religious order

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has mostly been placed on women
and it has been a force of

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social domination of women.
By men were not bound to the

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same rule.
In normal society, there are

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formal rules such as the
Commandment against adultery,

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the technically are required for
all.

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But women, even here tend to
Bear the brunt of the social

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pressure.
Sure for abandoning their purity

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of having sexual relations,
only, within the scope of their

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formal marriage.
Bonds, in the context of

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religious devotion, the question
of Purity also adheres to the

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male devotees and the concept of
strict Chastity.

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And in India, the concept of
brahmacharya represent attempts

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to set up an external mode of
Purity with brahmacharya.

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However, we you that the basis
for it is not so much a moral

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precept but one that deals with
the energy and the flow of that

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energy, within the being,
including the need to Harbor,

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the force that creates the
sexual energy and redirected

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upwards to higher energy centers
eventually, reaching the union,

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with the spiritual center above
the head, SRI aurobindo and the

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mother.
Look at Purity from an entirely

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different direction.
We're in the management of the

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sexual energy and its
redirection is.

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But a part of the larger
question of Purity and their

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view Purity is the coherence
between the spiritual aspiration

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and ideal and the thoughts,
emotions vital actions, and

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physical responses.
Anything which does not align

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with the spiritual aspiration
and focus represents an

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impurity, which needs to be
examined and successively

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modified over time to create the
direct correspondence between

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inner and outer and spirit, and
human life.

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The alignment of the energy
which normally goes to the

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Fulfillment of sexual desire.
Is but a small part of this

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larger concept of Purity to the
extent that any thought any

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emotion, any vital action, or
any physical response goes to

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the aggrandizement of the ego
personality or the Fulfillment

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of desires separated from the
aspiration of the psychic being

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and the dedication to the
Divine.

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Will it represents a form of
impurity somewhere in the be

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Being.
The mother writes quote one is

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truly perfectly pure when the
whole being in all its elements

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and all its movements adheres
fully exclusively to the Divine.

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Will, this indeed is total
Purity, it does not depend on

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any moral or social law, any
mental Convention of any kind.

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It depends exclusively on this
when all the elements.

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And all the movements, the being
adhered exclusively and totally

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to the Divine will.
Now there are stages their

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degrees, for example, in
sincerity, which is one of the

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greatest impurities always
arises from the fact that a

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movement or set of movements and
element of the being or a number

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of elements want to follow their
own will and not be the

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expression of the Divine will.
So, this produces in the being

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either a Revolt, or a falsehood.
I don't mean that one tells

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lies, but I mean, that one is in
a state of falsehood of

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insincerity and then the
consequences are more or less

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serious and more or less
extensive, according to the

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gravity of the movement itself,
and it's important.

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But these, if one sees from the
point of view of purity, These

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are the real impurities and
quote reference SRI aurobindo

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and the mother growing within
the psychology of inner

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development, chapter for growth
of Consciousness.

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