Questions on purity

AUM 1143-1145. On 1 February 1971, at the Connecticut Centre, Sri Chinmoy invited questions from his Connecticut disciples on purity.

Question: What is the most effective way I can attain purity?

Sri Chinmoy: The most effective way to attain purity in your case is through conscious offering of your life-breath to the Supreme. Early in the morning breathe in consciously seven times, and while you breathe in try to feel that you are actually breathing in through your heart and not through your nose. Try to feel that your breath is entering you through your heart centre. And while you are breathing out try to feel that your breath is going up, up to the top of your head, and out through the thousand-petaled lotus, the crown centre at the top of your head. If you can feel, and not just imagine, that you are breathing through your heart, immediately purity will enter and start revolving and functioning in you. When purity starts performing its role, impurity from the navel and below travels up and is released.

First the divine soldiers enter and see that the undivine soldiers are there. Then the opponents fight until the divine soldiers push the undivine soldiers up and throw them through the thousand-petaled lotus into the infinite cosmos. It is our mind that unconsciously attracts impurity, so we have to go beyond the mind. We have to carry the impure, undivine soldiers higher, and throw them into something which is beyond the mind. Do this early in the morning, and in the evening also, if possible. Then your system is bound to be purified.