Purity of Spirit - 03.11.10

“One of the synonyms for yoga is purity,” explains Shunyamurti, the Spiritual guide of the Sat Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. “A yogi is someone who is dedicated to a life that is absolutely pure.” But there are various levels of purity. There is purity of diet, purity of lifestyle, words, and even purity of mind, “but then beyond that, the purity of spirit, the purity in which one’s attention is always directed to the ultimate source of purity: to the Godself within.” Shunyamurti emphasizes that “That God presence is always there, but the impure mind never pays attention to it—it runs away from it in fact—because of guilt and shame and a sense of inadequacy and lack that it’s always seeking to fill by possessing something or someone in the physical world, and those actions are impure because they’re based on the lie of the ego. The ego itself is impurity. It’s a false self.”

But, “when the mind is silent, and abides with the Source, the Supreme Beingness within, with the Ultimate Mystery, the Absolute—that is present, but can only be apperceived when the mind is pure and silent, that is when enlightenment, liberation, Self-realization are achieved.” Recorded on the evening of Thursday, March 11, 2010.