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The Concept of Spiritual Purity in the Integral Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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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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  First steps and Foundation Pages 64 to 65,