Purity

(Mother:) “To be pure is to be open only to the Supreme’s influence and to no other.”

(Mother to Satprem, 1960:) “What I call purity, the true purity, is not all those things morality teaches: it is non-ego.
         There must be nothing but Him.
         Him, not only because we have given Him everything and consecrated ourselves totally to Him (that is not enough), but Him because He has taken total possession of the human instrument.
         At times, I feel that I'll never get over the difficulty. We are besieged by this enormous world of hostile forces – oceans of forces, churning and combining and submerging each other in gigantic pralayas, then again regrouping and combining. When you see that, it feels as if you had to be the Divine Himself to get over the difficulty. Precisely so! (And it's the hostile forces who help you to see this, it's their role.) You have TO BE THE DIVINE, that is the solution, that is the true divine purity.”

(Sri Aurobindo:) “When the psychic being comes to the surface it feels sad if it sees that the mental or the vital being is making a fool of itself. That sadness is purity offended.
         When the mind is playing its own game, or when the vital being is carried away by its impulses, it is the psychic being which says, “I don’t want these things.” “What am I here for after all?” “I am here for the Truth; I am not here for these things.” ”

(Medhananda:) “Today as I was working, I don't know how, I lost her. I felt uneasy and went out into the forest to look for her. I saw her hidden in the trees, the rocks, everywhere – except in myself. I called her sacred name, and she did not reply. I felt sad and called for a long time. I wanted to return, frustrated. Then suddenly She laughed her mocking laughter, “Little calf calling his mother, ‘maa!’ And doesn't see his mother is behind him! Do you still need to call me? Don't you know that I am always with you, in you, all around you? Just open your eyes! Listen! Christ has told you, knock and it shall be opened to you. I tell you: don't knock, don't call, your mother's house is always open to you.” But Mother, I am so afraid of losing you! “It's because of that fear that you stop feeling me within you.”
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The Mother will only enter a pure heart, a heart pure of every desire, a heart pure of every sadness, a heart emptied of all egoism, a heart that has forgotten itself, a heart that is a pure mirror, giving pure reflections. The Mother wishes to inhabit this heart, because through it she observes her maya, her play. There she can see the beauty of her roses, hear the music of her creatures, feel the effect of divine love.”

(Mother to Mona Sarkar:) “The purity of the Divine Presence – you know, it is a sensation, a sensation that is felt by its nearness, by its influence and evidently by its contact. But the most effective means is when one is oneself pure: purity in one's thoughts, purity in one's sensation, action, in one's desires, in one's aspirations, even purity in one's knowledge, purity in one's habits, pure in its totality. In each part of one's being, pure and clear, pure in its whiteness, without any tint of obscurity nor any spot of shadow, like a crystal that lets through the light without deforming it.
         It should be like this: like the touchstone from whose contact all comes out pure. For that, you have to find the light which is in you, deep within, and which has the capacity to purify all that comes in contact with it. You must learn to turn that which emits the purifying light towards, for example, an ordinary thought, any desire, something a bit dark, or an uncontrollable impulse – and as the purifying light touches and penetrates this thought or this desire or this impulse, it transforms it at once, in its modality, into something pure and sublime. And this, in fact, in its essence, carries the element of purity.
         The very substance itself of which this body is constituted becomes pure, luminous and translucent, pure, radiating its purity everywhere by its influence, by its contact. It is this purity that should be brought down, should be established in the being, so that it moulds your character, your attitude and your senses.
         Let it express and put its imprint on all the movements, all the actions and all your thoughts. Pure ... pure in its purity, and then no tinge of falsehood or of obscurity is left. When one is absolutely pure one becomes frank, straightforward and fear disappears completely because there will be no recoil nor any reactions.
         Yes, to become pure is to become free, free from all obstacles, free from all the complications, free from all the suffering and pain and all that duality entails.”

(Mother to Ambu, 1934:) “My dear Baby,
         We shall light a big fire in which all the difficulties will be burnt down and only the pure gold of happiness will remain.
         With love and blessings”

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See also

• Sincerity
• Peace
• Supramental light