Only we know the purity of our thoughts, words and actions. The world may not know it, but deep in our heart we do.
Purity defines us. Worldly success and achievement is meaningless if our motives and methods are not honourable.
Purity builds our character. Our awareness of every thought, word and action sets us on a path of developing ourselves. Our character is defined by our actions when nobody is watching.
A Pure Mind is like a clean mirror that reflects our inner beauty. Working off our dusty impurities not only develops us internally but makes our purer mind available for higher-order thoughts and creativity. When we raise our standard of Consciousness, we raise the standard of our life.
And yet why do we find it so difficult to attain the purity we want and know we’re capable of.
We live seeking legitimacy in the world. We often fall into the dangerous trap of the mind that appearing respectable to the world is the only important thing and we can easily hide our true inner motives. But when we realise that winning our own respect is important, we move from seeking legitimacy, to living with authenticity. Being authentic builds our purity.
The mind falls prey to temptations. Being honest with ourselves and building our inner resolve builds purity.
We often succumb to achieving our goals at any cost. We’ve misguided ourselves that life is a race to be won, rather than a journey to be traveled. And in wanting to win, we compromise. But life rewards us when we walk the straight and narrow path as well. Patience builds purity.
But till we don’t make our inner development our priority we will keep falling, keep promising ourselves, succeed for a while only to slip back in our old habits of thinking and acting. Having the higher as our goal of life builds purity.
Just as gold is purified by fire, life too sends us challenges and temptations to test our resolve. Faith builds purity.
And building our inner purity is not living a boring life. On the contrary. Purity has a vibrancy and sparkle to lift us to levels we’ve never experienced. Just as the golden rays of the sun shine through the pure raindrops to split into a rainbow, our higher consciousness operating through our purified self radiates our love, joy, knowledge, beauty and creativity.
We can fool the world but we cannot fool ourselves. And when we see our own reflection and look ourselves in the eye, we will truly understand what Purity means.
Beautifully written. Loved the analogy on outcomes of sunshine on raindrop to the outcome of our conscious appearing through our purer self.