Question

small small essay on purity

Answer 1

Purity is at the top of the list at the bottom of which is the order found in confusion. Even in confusion there is an order. In the disorder in which we live, mentally or physically, there is a certain order. We put things in so many places, but still we know where they are. We throw things down at so many places, but still, if you see, after four or five days, dirty linen fall at one place, typewriter materials at another. There is a certain kind of order. In a long list, purity occupies the top place at the bottom of which is the order in confusion. I used to speak about cleanliness, orderliness, punctuality, regularity, the advantages of law as the next best alternative to conscience. If you take them and put them in a correct graded list, Purity comes at the top. I will explain.
Order is a material organization. Orderliness is the virtue of a small mind. Orderliness hurts many sensitive people. People full of enthusiasm, vitality, achievement to their credit, will throw away punctuality. Punctuality serves as long as the organization is confined to lower levels of achievement. When the Prime Minister takes a political tour, there can be no punctuality. That is the highest political activity of the nation. Suppose there is a subject country. On the day it attains freedom, on that day you cannot maintain punctuality, you should not maintain punctuality, even if it is a country like the US or England where punctuality is valued. Punctuality must recede in preference to the pure emotions of the people. Punctuality serves when the organization is wide. When the organization is limited it serves at lower levels. Punctuality in individual cases is represented by regularity in wider cases. That regularity has a rhythm, not a punctuality. Punctuality loses its sharpness when it becomes regularity, upgraded to the next higher level. It follows a sequence, it follows a rhythm, with a flow and an ebb. It cannot have the sharp effectiveness of punctuality. Punctuality matures into regularity.
Physical cleanliness is purity at the material level. Psychological cleanliness is purity at the ethical level. The purity that we talk of is the purity of consciousness. The consciousness that is capable of receiving light and bliss is the purity that we talk of. But purity is a manifested condition. It is not the unmanifested greatness of consciousness. If you take a list from purity downwards and go through in your mind the different stages, there are two to three lines of evolution. We’ll start with confusion. That is the lower most level.

Answer 2

It is said, “Hygiene is next to godliness.” It is because we can achieve nothing physically, mentally or spiritually if we are unclean in our body, mind, or soul. Nobody likes an unclean child or adult and a clean one is loved, desired and respected everywhere.

First of all, we should keep our body clean. We should have a daily bath with toilet soap or shampoo well-applied to all parts of our body and hair so that not a speck of dust or a drop of perspiration keeps sticking to us. We will feel unpleasant and lethargic instead of being alert. Hygiene is also very important for good health. A large number of bacteria keep sticking to our bodies and clothes.

If we do not wash them regularly, we can acquire several diseases. Dirty and unwashed clothes are not only a source of bad smell, but also, these are hotbeds for disease causing germs. We should brush our teeth and comb our hair regularly.