Purification

A purified mind is an ideal instrument to receive knowledge. Most paths start with the process of purification first and when the student is ready, knowledge is imparted. However, Path of Knowledge being the direct path, it starts from the top where first knowledge is imparted, and with the grace of Guru if it is received, then automatically the purification process begins. Basic impurity is ignorance and cure is knowledge. To speed it up, still some practices are suggested and these practices are then arranged bottoms up.

Impurities create great obstacles on the spiritual path and it is important to recognise them and remove them. Suggested measures are based on personal experiences, think carefully before using them. Use your wisdom and assessment, because everyone is different. You are responsible for any experiment you do on yourself. It is always better to take advice of someone who has already done it, especially when the practices are more complex. Don't go extreme, consult your teacher. It may change your speech, thoughts, desires, relationships. It is a wild ride! The more the purification the more intense awareness.

Impurities: Environment

Environment is the bottom most layer, we are part of the environment. Nature rules us we do not rule nature. We are not above nature who can do anything with the surroundings. People are stupid and start destroying their environment. It is because of selfishness and greed. Majority only want to use natural resources, not protect them. Air is polluted, water is polluted, in the offices so many people stuffed in same room, people live in congested places, are pigeon holed in houses. Even villagers are getting polluted.

• All are living in a sea of pollution. Because of city life, worst water is available. Bottled water is used which is cleaned with chemicals and then people throw bottles around causing more pollution. Earth is used as a garbage bin.
• They buy food from outside because they do not have time to cook. Impure food causes diseases.
• People keep animals inside their house which is neither good for them nor for the animals. There is mass killing of animals for food.
• People want the biggest car and not use bus because they feel inferior. They do not even want to walk because walking is for slaves.
• There is so much of noise pollution. Complete lack of peace, so much noise of traffic or machines or loud music.

Motivation for most people is not to stay clean but to show off. They want to put a stamp of superiority on themselves. How can one contemplate on philosophical stuff when there is so much filth around? How will they practice?

Cure

• Earth is our home. Keep environment clean.
• Keep the city or village clean.
• Stop thinking of yourself as superior to others, you are only being retarded.
• Keep the house simple and clean. Do not worry about showing off stuff. Minimalism automatically makes it beautiful, there is more space too. Simplicity is good for contemplation.
• As far as possible, live in peaceful place, away from crowd.
• Reduce travel time. Take a job that meets your needs. Job does not give you prestige, it gives you heart attack, stress, cancer.
• If you think you will get treated in the hospital then know that hospitals are the filthiest places in this world.
• Don't be a fake seeker. Seek wisdom, not mob mentality.
• Prosperity need not mean greed and profit.
• Avoid staying in violent countries and cultures. If you live in a very polluted city or locality it is a good idea to change place.
• Avoid consumerist and capitalist cultures.
• Avoid violence towards animals for greed.
• Recycle, don't waste. Use minimum amount. Use technology for protecting the environment.
• Cleanliness and beauty affects the mind
• Keep only that which is absolutely necessary...no need to show off.
• Treat your country as your own. Clean it yourself. We are not attackers or settlers anymore.
• Quality of life is more important than profit and power.

Purification of Environment: Benefits

• Peace, bliss, happiness.
• Love, beauty, joy.
• Life is worth living.
• Acceleration of spiritual progress.

Impurities: Body

There can be many impurities in the body and one may not have all of them. One has to check and remove those that one finds in oneself. We know that body is not me nor mine yet we should take care of it.

• Don't make it impure and the body will take care of itself. Body has its own intelligence, it purifies itself, its own processes. Body has sufficient arrangements to take care of it. In the natural environment, animals, birds and insects are naturally clean and beautiful.
• We want a good experience and pure body helps to get positive experiences. Utilize natural ability of the body to keep it pure. One day we will be freed from it, but right now we are stuck with it so we might as well make use of it. Use it like a vehicle to work in this illusion. Don't break it. This vehicle is super smart but user is dumb, and ignorance is the basic impurity.
• Body is an ecosystem of tiny organisms composed of bacteria, viruses, chemicals, which have decided to come together to form a complex pattern. 70-80% of body are other creatures, it is part of the ecosystem. It is just a machine. Learn about the body, learn about the biology.
• Visit a medical college where they cut various parts and keep in glass bottles. You will no more be attached to the body. The result- detachment will be extremely useful.
• Body is a part of the environment and it continuously exchanges matter through 9-10 orifices which are continuously oozing out sticky substances. Skin is continuously oozing out sweat and oil. Even breath is polluting the environment. Microbes are continuously breaking out the organic matter which causes body odour.
• Clothing is a necessity and body makes the clothes dirty, they accumulate microbes and need to be washed. But chemicals are used to wash clothes. You think you are cleaning it and actually you can make it worse. The body forgets to fight and immunity drops when due to excessive use of chemicals, the microbes that are required to attack the body are killed.
• Make-up kills the good bacteria on the skin. There is an inferiority complex that if people do not look in a certain way others are not going to accept them. People colour their hair to avoid looking old. One can see many mental abnormalities here. Some people want to hide their ugliness through looking beautiful. There is fear of rejection.
• Perfumes and deodorants are used to fool others so they may think you are clean if you smell nice.
• Making holes in the body and putting metals. It is to make the body look attractive. A dirty body that already has holes, why make more holes?
• Humans think they are smart and over-eat, eat heavy food, food made in restaurants or factory; that makes them fat, ugly and sick. Through eating meat they eat diseased filthy animals. Bodies are fighting after each meal. Body can digest anything but we should not overtax it. When there is abundance to eat, why should we eat filth.
• Drinking sugary, carbonised, chemical drinks, alcohol; when all the body needs is pure water.
• Breathing polluted air, or stale air which is circulating in a closed AC room.
• People sleep too much or too less.
• Irregular excretion is a major impurity which people do not realise. When body does not defecate properly because of bad habits, it causes issues in all layers including upper layers. Not only the worldly matters are impacted, it is not possible to progress spiritually.
• Lack of exercise or over exercise, both are bad for the body.
• Bad posture can impact the spine that can be a deterrent in spiritual practices.

Abuse of body for pleasures like food and sex. Body generates pleasure and people want it again and again but over indulgence causes pain and suffering. Imbalance in the body due to ignoring the inbuilt mechanism causes diseases which become a big impurity. Genetic or accidental deformations. In old age there is degradation of bodily functions. They take strong medicines to stay alive, still eat the same kind of food, still want to do same amount of work as they did in young age. Other people cause impurities in us and we don't see them. Sit in the same train or bus, use same supports, eat in restaurants using same seats, plates, spoons; shoes accumulate disease every time we go out, we bring it all in the house. Some people have jobs where they are exposed to hundreds of people every day and that impacts the body. Violence, war, crime, rape; causing other bodies harm, millions of people become deformed. People do all kinds of adventure sports that can deform their body forever.

Cure

• Don't do all these things.
• Keep the body clean by bathing regularly.
• Wear clothes according to the weather.
• Do not wash clothes with chemicals.
• Use natural means to beautify your body instead of make-up. Don't try to be someone you are not. Do not fake beauty.
• Advertisers are only invoking your inferiority complex by using photoshopped models to sell you things. If people don't accept you, you accept yourself.
• Do not mutilate body, respect it. In the PoK we do not make politically correct statements.
• Eat most natural food that you can find.
• Cook your own food, do not eat food touched or cooked by other people.
• Do not eat restaurant and factory made food.
• Do not overeat. We eat to live. It should be nutritious. Do not kill animals to eat. If it will be a necessity it will happen automatically. If your teacher has advised you to avoid certain foods, do not eat that food.
• Drink pure water or fruit juices. Give up carbonated drinks, alcohol.
• Sleep well.
• Make your defecation an easy and regular process.
• Exercise when you are young, rest when you are old.
• Maintain a good posture. Movement is the best posture. Keep changing the posture, keep stretching the body.
• Treat diseases immediately.
• If there is any deformation, accept it. Now it is not an impurity anymore.
• There is nothing wrong in being old. Trying to be young in old age is not maturity. Age gracefully. Do not fake youth. Shift your role as per your age. Earn respect, do not demand it.
• When the body starts packing up, you also pack up.
• Maintain physical distance from people. Do not go near. Do not hold their hands.
• Do not go on a war. Do not kill.
• Do not take unnecessary risks. If you want entertainment, do it alone, do not put others at risk. Do not try to kill for fun.

Purification of Body: Benefits

• Fit, healthy, beautiful.
• Whatever you do you will succeed.
• Happiness, peace and speed.
• You sleep better.
• Intelligence grows.
• Elegant ageing.
• If your food is right you will not feel heavy. Light body.
• Long life.
• Easy to take any spiritual practices.
• Speech and thoughts become purified.
• Fearless.
• Attention will become steady and strong.
• This body is a temple- the most advanced instrument. Natural evolution happens with a pure body.

Impurities: Relationships

Some impurities can be fixed within one's own self, but some involve others too. PoK is a straight path and hence no sugar coating can be expected here. Those who are easily offended should not read further. Why should these be sugar coated? Do we treat trash in our home with kindness? Ego retaliates because it is very uncomfortable.

Reality of relations

• All relations are mind created.
• Illusory.
• Purpose is survival
• All relations are formed due to ego.
• There is not father, mother, children, employee, employer. These are names given to interdependent relations. When they break or do not go as per your thoughts, they cause suffering for both.
• It is impossible not to relate, otherwise there was no point coming here. We find ways to somehow adjust in society. However, it will always be an adjustment and compromise. It is impossible for a human to be selfless.

Impurities: Blood relations

• Extreme attachment because of extreme dependency. Mother and child are interdependent. It is impurity because it outlives its age. Dependency in relations is an impurity.
• For a seeker it is important to be independent.
• There is barter. As soon as other is not giving you what you want, relation is over.
• Potential for dominance, violence, abuse.
• If one side is submissive it is an unhealthy relation.
• Dependency, hate and love oscillate for the same person. This is enough evidence to say everything is in the mind.
• Fakeness in relations- showing respect out of social norms.
• Illegal relations- body and emotions do not know what is legal or illegal. From society point of view it is illegal.
• Marriage is mostly just a social arrangement.

Impurities: Friends

• If it is a give and take relationship and need based- friends with benefits.
• Competition with friends- jealousy.
• Use and throw relationships.
• Feet lickers.
• Loneliness leading to friendships.

Impurities: Co-workers

• Selfishness- working with you not because I like you but because it is team work.
• There is partiality.
• For profit.
• Potential for exploitation and abuse.

Impurities: Teachers

• Occupational indifference if Guru is talking to thousand people. This is a business arrangement.
• Greed- easy way to earn money. Seekers can be easily exploited by spiritual teachers.
• Potential for abuse and exploitation.
• Brainwashing, misleading.
• Dependency between teacher and student.

Impurities: Strangers

• Antisocial- cause harm to society. Because you are a stranger I can kill you, abuse you, harm you. Even cultured people do that.
• Discrimination- It is on the basis of race, caste, age, social status. Mind is very quick to form a relation.
• Violence and disrespect.
• Fear- Women are programmed to be fearful of people they do not know and it causes fear.
• Intolerance.
• Indifference.

Purification: Relatives

• Distance yourself from the person. If it is from other person's side then be careful. If from your house then it can be quick.
• Be independent and get out of the relationship.
• Be giving, unconditional love. Do not allow yourself to be in an abusive relationship.
• Never ask for anything in return. Do not take anything from anybody. Do not expect, never hope.
• Self respect- do not allow others to dominate you. Do not dominate.
• Do not have fake relations. Do not call others your relatives because you are getting something from others.
• Be real.
• Avoid marriage- if you are unmarried think twice before getting into a relationship. Utilise this opportunity to learn. Be kind, do not expect anything from others. If you do not have children, do not reproduce. If you already have them, take care of them. Relation is the biggest opportunity to learn. Keep checking your ego.

Purification: Friends

• Make friends because you like/love them. Not because of give and take.
• Do not compete.
• Don't use people.
• If some friend is doing feet licking to you, leave the relationship.
• Don't make friends who are not spiritual, and save yourself a lot of time.
• Be in solitude- majority of time with yourself and rest with your teacher.

Purification: Coworkers

• Be self employed- so there is nobody to order you. 90% of your problems are because you want to earn and because of that you become dependent on others.
• No employee no employer is ideal. Keep your survival simple. If you are talented you can take it to whatever level.
• Simple jobs consume less time.
• Prefer pure jobs.

Purification: Teachers

• Explore widely.
• Stay away from those who demand a lot of money.
• Be respectful.
• Non opinionated- it is not our business to judge other teachers.
• Don't be a fake seeker.
• Detachment- if teacher is asking for something in return then is not a teacher.

Purification: Strangers

• Treat them like strangers, treat them equally, do not be afraid of them.
• Be brave.
• Tolerate them and as soon as your work is over, just walk out.
• Avoid nationality, politics, military.
• There is not motherland, no tribe.
• My duty is not to cause any harm.
• Detachment from worldly affairs- we are not empowered to resolve. We are here to leave, we are not here to fix.

Impurities: Behaviour

Behaviour is an outward expression of our internal nature, it is our doing and action. Because of ignorance lot of impurities are seen in behaviour.

Impurities : Immorality

In society, morality is mutually agreed upon behaviours. However, for a spiritual seeker, any behaviour that causes harm to others, environment and animals is immoral. Any violence, in action or speech is immoral.

Impurities : Jobs

• Many people are in immoral jobs; they are criminals, violent.
• If your job involves harming others, promoting greed, lying; it is criminal and immoral. One may say that everybody does it, but this itself is an impurity.
• Selling fake products, working for immoral people.
• If being a doctor you keep them sick to earn your bread and butter, it is impure. If your job involves taking bribes, taking advantage of people's weaknesses, exploiting people, working under bad conditions, then it is an impure job.

Impurities : Unpleasantness/Manipulation

• Some people are so unpleasant that coming near such people you start to feel jealous, competitive and selfish.
• Behaviour is manipulative and extreme selfishness.
• Feet licking behaviour because people are in high positions.
• Using others for your benefits.

Impurities : Fakeness

• Almost all people are fake. Even children learn to fake behaviour.
• Faking social status- someone incompetent needs to show how rich they are.
• Fake love and relations- fake intelligence by throwing heavy words around. Spiritual seekers will throw big spiritual words around. There are fake Gurus.
• Fake families, companies, cultures and countries.
• When you fake, you only fool yourself, everybody else understands. Only stupid or retarded person will fall for your fakeness.

Impurities : Conditional

• You do good and I will do good
• You are violent and I will be violent to you
• If you respect me, I will respect you.
• Here behaviour is only reactive, there is no natural behaviour.

Impurities : Favours

• Taking favours because you want things from other people. Free alcohol, drugs, food.
• Opportunistic tendencies.

Impurities : Unkind

• Unloving- do not give back love.
• Selfish- do not thank others.
• Indifference- do not help when asked.
• Inhuman- unkind to others.

Impurities: Negativity

• Negative- speech and behaviour is negative.
• Toxic- they enter the room and negativity enters.
• Wherever they go they cause failures- impurities are very deep.
• Bad wishes for others.

Purification : Behaviour

Identify the impurities and start correcting them. There is an equation here, if you are impure inside your behaviour will be impure. If you are pure inside and even if you fight with somebody, you will start feeling negative inside. Just start acting positive and you will find some purification internally. You will have a better social life- lots of time and energy for spirituality.

• Do not react immediately to a situation or stimulus. Sometimes even if you delay actions by 5 minutes it helps.
• If you are in an immoral job, learn new skills. Slowly shift to more pure jobs. Get out of the old ones.
• If you are financially independent then just leave the job, does not matter how much you were earning. Pure job brings happiness, not a high pay job.
• There is an inferiority complex if you feel jealous of other person. If what worries you is that why others are successful. Why are you jealous of people who are immoral?
• Learn from others' success, innovate.
• Compete with your own self, be better than what you were yesterday.
• If other people are jealous of you, walk out of those relationships.
• Be brutally honest- do not manipulate others.
• Be genuine. It does not take effort to be genuine. Saves money, time and energy.
• We cannot make others happy. No one is interested in your progress, they are only interested in their own progress.
• Be independent.
• Unconditional- show your true nature.
• Non-reactive- you do good to everybody. Never take anything from others. Never take gifts. Never eat or drink at any person's house. Never beg. Do not be guests in other people's house.
• Don't let people favour you if you are in high positions.
• Return properly, kindly, respectfully.
• Do not enter other people's houses.
• Do not take money from anybody.
• Do not take anything from anybody. Whenever you take a favour, a deep bond is formed.
• Always be kind and compassionate. Have mercy.
• Don't confuse kindness and weakness.
• If you are toxic and negative, always vomiting negativity, try to be positive.
• Do not fake positivity. Be encouraging.
• Don't underestimate people.
• Be honest, not cluelessly positive. Express positivity.
• Changes in the outward behaviour brings changes inside. But desire to change has to be there.

Impurities: Speech

It is a means of communication, an outward expression of our internal nature, it is also an action. Ability to communicate effectively is important. Most of the impurities that we see are categorised as:

• Excessive speech, useless talk, a habit, an addiction; mainly for killing time. There is no awareness of what one is speaking about.
• Bad words, vulgar speech. Way of speaking is cheap because of carelessness or bad company. Some people cannot speak without inserting bad words- one can understand their mind and thoughts through this language.
• Too soft speech- they talk as if talking to themselves. Pronunciation is very bad. Lack of confidence while speaking.
• Stammering- issue or due to old age.
• If you are talking something nice but if accent is bad or heavy then nobody can understand it. Regional language also acquires an accent.
• Those who speak more than one language mix two or more languages. It is an impurity. Some people mix languages to show that they know other language too.
• Some people talk while eating or chewing tobacco.
• Very loud speech. Some scream in phone, if they are in public place everybody else can hear what they are saying.
• Some people are always in a leader mode and giving orders.
• Many people keep repeating a single word so many times that it becomes annoying.
• Filler words- person is trying to think and instead of keeping quiet, keeps using filler words.
• Repeating sentences in another language.
• Boring and monotonous speech which goes on and on. Same subject, same stories.
• Emotionless speech where no emotions are involved in the speech.
• Interrupting and shouting. The one who is loudest gets all the attention.
• Flowery speech. Lacking content but decorated with great words, sounds like poetry.
• Flattering and meaningless language.
• Negative speech: Even a positive topic is turned into negative, insulting and bitter speech. Always talking about something negative.
• Habitual lying and manipulative speech. Fake superiority in their speech which is clear to all except themselves.
• Insulting, dominating, commanding, angry speech.

Purification: Speech

It is a difficult task and that is why people do not do it. They take their speech very lightly. Mostly they are not even aware. Become aware of what you speak and how you speak. If you are not aware it will happen automatically.

• Golden rule: do not speak. Speak only when necessary. Drop all that is unnecessary. Practice silence.
• Save energy because talking takes a lot of energy.
• Check what kind of language you use. If vulgar speech is fun, change company. Surround yourself with people who are wise and speak well and you will copy good speech.
• Pause before you form a sentence, think before you speak.
• Speak confidently and slowly but not too slowly. Speak loudly but not too loudly.
• Do not mix words from different languages. A strong determination will help. If you are around people who mix languages, be determined and extra aware to not mix languages.
• Fix your accent if any.
• Do not speak from far and shout, instead go near the person and speak.
• Do not pick up phone when in conversation with another person. If urgent then first excuse yourself and take permission.Similarly when talking on phone with somebody, do not start talking to someone who is in front of you. You can gesture them to wait, take permission from the person you are speaking with and then talk.
• Listen to yourself, form the sentences in your mind before speaking. Avoid over emphasising, unless necessary.
• Check if others are interested in your talk or not. One can know by checking other people's faces whether they are interested in your talk or not. Your topic may not be interesting to others, however interesting it may be to you.
• Insert your emotions when speaking. If you are happy or sad or angry, bring those expressions in the speech. Dry speech is very boring. But do not make it too emotional. Balance is the key.
• Do not talk in crowd. If you really want to talk to someone, take them aside and speak. Don't shout.
• Don't be shy or under confident. Practise public speaking. Master your subject. If you have command on your subject then the fear will go away. Do not feel shy of apologising when you make a mistake or when you do not know. Correct yourself. If you do not know the subject then stay quiet.
• Do not lick feet with your speech, do not flatter. Be straight and logical. There is no need to embellish your speech. Flowery speech sounds fake.
• Remove negative people from your life. Bring positivity in your life. Develop sensitivity to negativity. It means it will ensure that when you hear negativity it will cause pain and you will not stand it. Some people feed on negativity, they gain energy by making others negative. They are like energy vampires. By avoiding such people you will also avoid negativity.
• Biggest impurity in your speech is lying. Nobody like liars because others lose trust in you. Lying has very bad consequences. It is a mental disease. A spiritual seeker cannot afford to lie.
• Develop sensitivity to your own lying. Get rid of liars and respect your own truth. Be sure what you are saying. You need awareness and sensitivity to know the truth.
• Do not expect people to tell the truth. Then you will not have any expectations from others and it will bring you peace of mind. Sometimes you need to hide things and those times tell them that you cannot share. Keep silent instead of faking even positivity.
• Don't try to fix others. Don't lie for financial gains. It will be very harmful.

Impurities: Emotion

Emotions are subtler form of action, subtler than speech. They are experienced by the body and make them unique appearances. Emotions are the motivators of actions, can be triggered by outside events or desires or memories. The ignorance is that 'I am the emotion', there is an identification with the emotion. The emotions find a convenient place to hide.

• It is impossible to cure them if there is an identification.
• They are fundamental (qualia) and therefore appear real.
• They are strong and short lived. Lead to instant action/speech or doing some kind. The moment an emotion arises there is an action. If a person is angry there is an immediate action. Lust arises or greed arises and one tends to obey to these emotions, there is no awareness.
• They arise and go away very quickly but trigger action. Usually it happens because of another person. One is slave to the trigger. We call is pushing the buttons. Others can use one to do things what they want.
• Negative emotions bothers one the most. Most of suffering is emotional in nature. Pain in body is also suffering but it can be cured by gross means. But the biggest suffering is caused by negative emotions.
• Negative emotions cause diseases in the body and the mind. They cause irrational and illogical reactions. Stay there for years and degrade the quality of life.
• Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, young or old; nobody is free from negative emotions.
• If these are not cured they cause madness, depression, homicide, suicide.
• There is a source of these emotions, some past memory. Most of these emotions are survival mechanisms. Even love, hate and attachment are survival mechanisms. Ego makes one dance due to these emotions.
• Some people are incapable of having pure emotions. A healthy mind should experience all kinds of emotions. They only fake it. Sometimes people deceive to show emotions. Like a small child cries to get attention, they learn it quickly and continue for the rest of life. They never grow up. It is very easy to say 'I love you' without feeling it. They can pretend to be loving and kind. Some only show good manners, play kind but are manipulative.
• Some people are masters of faking emotions and generating the same in others too. Some stupid and weak people can get affected by other people's emotions and can be easily manipulated.
• Some people are incapable of expressing their emotions because of indoctrination that they should not display emotions. They are suppressed, it is an impurity. Dryness causes loss of trust.
• Life is governed by the emotion. Everything is purely emotional. It is a sign of weak intellect. People think they are very smart but they are just triggers and impulses.

Purification: Emotions

No external means can be used to clean it. There are no tricks here. The most effective techniques are:

• Experience suffering and consequent learning- When we suffer from all the emotions for 20-30 years and then become mature. Some people however never mature.
• Awareness- This is the best way. Stop and see and wait until emotion passes. Do not act- There is no need to do anything. Become aware. Become aware of the reaction- realise that the automatic emotion arises, not I. I am only watcher. See mechanisms in action, how emotions are triggering and pushing the speech to say something. Next time you will see they become weaker and then completely go away. After few sessions you will see that they do not happen now. Awareness is very important now.
• Do not identify with the event. If you stay in awareness then all sufferings will be lost, it is guaranteed.
• Avoid situations and people who push your buttons as much as you can. Become aware of the situation and refuse to be manipulated.
• Forgive the person who triggers you.
• Do not use any gross methods. Let them be there, no need to react. When you see negative emotion, you see and do not react, develop a strong intent and will power not to act on the negative emotion.
• Catch it at an early stage, catch it at the stage of the memory. With awareness it is possible.
• If you are suffering there is impurity in you. Only person standing in position of knowledge can tell you that.
• Stay as a witness, it is the easiest thing in the world.
• Do not fake emotions to get something from the others. This is a fake relation too and get out of it.
• Know the oneness.
• Get rid of indoctrination. Train your intellect.
• Happiness is your internal affair- do not let it depend on external people and situations. You will be peaceful, blissful, know your potential.
• We are never taught to control our emotions. Turn them into tools of actions. Use emotions, do not get used by them.
• Evolve further- refuse to be governed by the emotions. Whenever there is an emotional energy, direct it to the awareness.

Impurities: Thoughts

Thoughts are tiny actions in the memory, very subtle and invisible. They are activity of the memory, kind of faint playback of memory. They are higher forms of vibrations. There is thinking but no thinker! There is no control of 'I' over this thought. The thought that I willed is another thought! There can be many pathways through which memories lead to actions:

From memory thoughts can arise from which arises speech and then actions and consequences, producing perceptions and eventually producing more thoughts which again go back to the memory. There is a constant playing back of words, images, thoughts, emotions and even perceptions like touch etc.

Memory>Thoughts>Speech>Actions>Consequences

Memory>Desires>Thoughts>Emotions>Actions>Consequences

Memory>Desires>Emotions>Thoughts>Speech>Actions>Consequences

• There can be impurities in this process. Impure thoughts are disorders, every one has impure thoughts and they start passing on them to you. They come from others, and copied from others. It begins in childhood, and impossible to avoid.
• Even those who are in relatively good environments have dirty thoughts. People misuse the privacy of thoughts. Speech can still be controlled because others can hear, but thoughts are private and there is absolutely no control over them. It is a heaven for impurities.
• Thoughts do come out in form of speech, behaviour and actions. You can hide what you are thinking but you cannot hide the effects of thinking.
• There are no personal thoughts, all is universal.
• Not only is there uncontrolled thinking, it is negative too because of negative emotions, memories and perceptions. One negative thought will colour all thoughts as negative. Mind enters a fight mode. Everybody experiences this. It is impossible not to experience it.
• Nobody likes negativity. It causes most harm to the negative person, not to others. They do cause harm to others too, but fire burns that where it is burning while others get charred too. Nobody can stop negative thoughts and these lead to a low quality of life.
• Violent thoughts lead to violent actions. With these thoughts it is impossible to do any spiritual practices. That is why practices are prescribed because Guru knows the condition of your mind.
• Some people have mechanical thinking, they were told to think in a particular way and now they cannot think beyond that. It leads to narrow thinking and however intelligent they may be, they think mechanically. We call them having a particular mentality.
• People are unable to stop thinking. People go on drugs or alcohol to control thoughts. They are indisciplined. You cannot stop noisy mind through meditation. Noisy mind is the result of indisciplined mind.
• People are caught up with distractions leading to a noisy mind. One cannot expect mind to be peaceful amidst all distractions. People don't want to discipline the mind but want to make it numb.
• Dysfunction of the mind- diseases produce different kinds of thoughts which can range from completely useless to extremely dangerous. It is all rubbish, all garbage.

Purification: Thoughts

• Stay away from impure people. One can move away from them, there is no law that one cannot change relative or friends. If the cost is impure thoughts it is required to kick anything that comes in the way.
• Get a larger view of the whole process for thinking. The bigger view will give a new perspective and realisation will bring some control and awareness. It will stop the misuse.
• Realising that negative thinking is most harmful for me only, the awareness will help. Nothing can happen without some awareness. Violent thoughts come from the ego. Identify and remove threats.
• For mechanical thinking, ask for help so the Guru can point out to you your indoctrination. Accept and discard the beliefs which have been stuffed into your mind by the culture or education.
• Do not meditate if there is a noisy mind. Discipline the mind. Surround oneself with peace. Peaceful lifestyle is indispensable. If greed is bigger than peace, it can never become silent.
• People do all kinds of stupid things in the name of meditation. Noisy mind needs discipline. Influence of wise people can help slowly. Do not try to cure the symptoms.
• Do not identify with thoughts, do not entertain them.

Impurities: Intellect

Let us define intelligence first before we find impurities. It is a spiritual definition and it is whole and complete.

Intelligence is when all the processes of the memory are working optimally in perfect balance and in perfect harmony. 

It has nothing to do with IQ, race, material success, cunningness, degrees. All these criteria were created by very stupid people. Intelligence is a very evolved ability of the mind where all layers are working optimally. Intelligence is not cutting off the lower layers. Hating the lower layers is not intelligence, it is stupidity. Intelligence increases knowledge, and knowledge increases intelligence.

It is impossible to measure intelligence and those who are measuring intelligence are very not intelligent. It is a very dynamic process and its measurement is useless. 

Only unintelligent people put a number to intelligence. Everyone is unique, people behave differently in different situations. There is no consistency in intelligence. Hardly anybody has got it. Hardly anyone is evolved enough to be called intelligent. Nobody is clear about intelligent, neither scientists, nor psychologists.

This layer is incharge of all other layers. It is a governing centre, organism is governed from here. Intelligence is the overall working system and intellect is found in highly evolved entities. Commanding centre has processes that enable intelligence.

Impurities

Body

• Malnutrition leads to dysfunctions of the nervous system leading to stupidity. Some people will say intelligence does not depend on the body but the law says if you pull one layer of the table all three are pulled. Problem in one layer impacts all other layers. Lower layers impact the higher layers and higher layers impact lower. If people think they can eat anything, drink anything and it will not impact their intelligence, they are being stupid.
• Infection: Viral, bacterial, fungal- they impact the intellect too. Energy goes in fighting the disease and long term infection will shut down processes of the brain to deal with the disease.
• Genetic: genetic deformities cause mental retardation. There are minor genetic variations that can impact major issues. There is a connection between genetic and intelligence, one can think of genes leading to superiority of race or genes are stupid.

Social

• Indoctrination: It makes a person dull very quickly. A person who has high potential can be turned into a dense person. Intellect is highly dependent on social circumstances. Dogmatic views and society will make and keep you stupid.
• Brainwashing: continuous bombardment of information from people, TV, politicians, newspapers etc. If you read those things everyday it makes you ignorant. You will automatically start thinking like that and make a copy of that garbage only.
• Intelligence is taboo topic in some societies. People worship stupidity and are afraid of intelligent people. It is impolite to call someone stupid and nobody does anything to make them intelligent. Stupid people get the jobs, get married, and the most stupid rule the country and make policies.
• Conformity: If you do not confirm to their norms, they are afraid of you, they feel insulted, bullied. An intelligent person confirms with social norms to mix with them.

Family

If you are born in a family of dull people, you remain dull. Generally, children of intelligent persons are very intelligent. Surroundings make a big difference. Exceptions are also there but we are discussing broadly. Gender discrimination- girls are made to believe brainless. Family does not want her to become intelligent and she will not find a suitable mate because most people are brainless. Superior food is served to the boys instead of the girls.

Education

Education is supposed to make you intelligent but it is not like this. Education causes retardation. If your degree can get you job and money then who cares about your intelligence? It is a survival process only. Hubris stops development- you think now you have a degree so you are intelligent. Education system creates an ignorant person who can now be ruled by others. It does not mean that uneducated person is more intelligent. An educated person can survive well- this is the better option. It is a social evil but you need to do it.

Atmosphere Your education is impacted by kind of people you are surrounded with. If you are surrounded by idiots you will not grow. Intelligence is comparative. If you are surrounded by people who are stupid, you think you are intelligent.

Biases

• Evolutionary viruses- cognitive biases. Biases remain invisible - everybody has them but most people are unaware of them. If you do not get rid of your biases, you remain stupid.
• A stupid person is very certain about his own intelligence and in this stupidity, whatever is done is very destructive.
• Herd mentality where people follow the majority thinking that what most people do would be the truth.
• Thinking that beautiful people always tell the truth and being influenced by models selling stuff on TV.

Strong lower tendencies:

• Emotional issues: if you are too emotional your intelligence will be affected.
• Addictions- alcohol, drugs impact your brain functioning and make you stupid.

Latent:

• Impressions in causal body- everything is fine with the person but he/she still acts like a moron, loses all poise and loses all intelligence. There are some latent tendencies and affect the intellect. Due to stored impressions in the causal body.
• Supernatural: Influences coming from nonphysical realm. It is all One Universal Memory and one part affects the other part. Due to past life tendencies, there are micro-possessions. Madness is a local problem, super natural influences are beyond the perceived known.

There is no pill for intelligence and no surgery for intelligence. First you must know what is intelligence! 

Clever vs Intelligent:

• Most people think clever is intelligent. Average people do not know the difference between two. But there are some major differences.
• A clever person is narrow minded, knows only one or two things; where as an intelligent person is very broad minded and has a potential to learn anything that may be required or even for the sake of knowledge.
• Clever people are cunning, they know they can get work done, have ability to manipulate people. Intelligent person does only that is necessary and wise.
• Clever person if left in an unfamiliar environment will be lost. Intelligence is training in a particular manner. He does not know how to adapt to certain situations.
• Clever person is interested in earning money and keeping right relations to get things done. Intelligent person is beyond survival; only manages survival.
• Clever person misuses his abilities for selfish reasons. An intelligent person utilises his abilities for the benefit of others.
• Clever person is a fraud and cheat, is competitive and manipulative. Intelligent person has ethics and morals.
• Clever people are hurried and fearful. Intelligent people are calm and peaceful, not bothered by what other people are saying or doing.
• Clever person provokes or misleads others. An intelligent person will provide good advice and guidance.
• Clever person is ignorant, intelligent person has knowledge.

Cure

• Knowledge purifies- knowledge has power and intelligence. Simply by knowing you can get rid of it. If you suffered from malnutrition in childhood, right now you can nourish your body with a rich diet.
• Get your body checked for infections, virus, bacteria. Get treated.
• Work around birth defects. Grow in other areas if you are lacking in one area.
• Shed your beliefs.
• Sit down and make a list of all the things you have been told since childhood.
• Leave dogmatic cultures.
• Detect brainwashing- improve your logical abilities.
• Leave culture, society where stupidity is worshipped.
• Do not confirm to social norms. It is abnormal to confirm to someone who are stupid. You would have lost your curiosity because of need to confirm to others.
• Family: Isolate yourself and leave the family if they are coming in your way.
• Get rid of family pressures. If you live with the family they will make you like them.
• Walk alone, we can only improve ourselves.
• Nobody wants to make you intelligent, they want you to remain stupid so they can rule you.
• Education:
• Rise above the education, think beyond it. Find a Master, a Guru.
• As soon as you rid yourself of education you will find you are wise and intelligent.
• Do not let your education turn you into a zombie.
• Atmosphere:
• Surround yourself with wise people.
• Raise your standards. There is comedy in the higher layers, nothing is serious there. Seriousness is only in the lower layers. Problem is with that intelligent people will not like to be with you so start serving them. Be with that person like a shadow.
• Biases: Study the biases and become aware.
• Free your intellect.
• Balance is the key.
• Mental Afflictions: Walk on a spiritual path.
• Know your self.
• Bring them to surface, they will be manifested clearly to be seen by you and the teacher
• Grow spiritually.
• If you cannot find any phenomenon- then know it would be super natural.

Effects of Pure Intellect

• Effortless life
• Happiness- you will be loving and kind and all will like you except the idiots.
• Intelligent people will love you.
• Money will be easy to earn through learning any skills that interest you.
• Exponential growth.

Impurities: Awareness

Awareness is the ability of the mind to know itself, to know its own existence. It is the knowledge of the true Self. It is the highest layer possible in a creature. It is a very evolved ability of the mind; an ability found in extremely few people; and this ability comes and goes. Just like intelligence it is not found in everyone.

It is an ability, an activity. Awareness is not the Experiencer, it comes and goes. Experiencer never goes away; what can go is the awareness. Those who know are aware of themselves as a presence, which comes only after Self Realisation. The knowledge of Self is the most natural. But in normal people, awareness is very flimsy, it hardly lasts a second and then becomes identified with body and mind. It is very easy to realise and that's why it is also very easy to fall to illusion.

I am aware that 'I am.' 'I am' is the Existence appearing as tiny creature. 

Biggest becomes a tiny speck of dust and becomes identified with it. A state of sleep while lower layers are awake. Not knowing our true nature we become tiny and lose the paradise. Because of disease of unawareness we have lost everything.

• Why are we identified with these forms that appear and disappear?
• Why and how this impurity happened?

Impurity is wrong knowledge that I am my body, my feelings, my thoughts, my desires. In PoK we chop off the impurities.

You are not an experience- that is the whole knowledge. I am this Eternal Presence, and this is my home. 

• Mistaking the illusion for reality, mind convinces itself that this is real. Dream appears real when you are in the dream. It is poison of the senses.
• Refusal of knowledge when Guru tries to show you the mirror.
• Fear
• Not knowing the true purpose of life. What is the purpose of this human experience?
• Afflicted intellect: To be powerful through money, power, status, more possessions, partners.
• Confuse momentary pleasures with happiness.
• Meaningless animalistic life.
• Staying unaware and ignorant. You are in bad company- surrounded by ignorant, stupid and cunning people.
• Ignorance that I am separate from everyone and everything.

Purification: Awareness

• Start listening to wise people.
• Get rid of conditioning.
• Be in company of aware people.
• It takes practise to stay in awareness, remember your true nature.
• With aware people your awareness is raised naturally.
• Give up stupid practices and dogma.
• How much time it takes for the gold ornament to become gold?
• Realise the Nonduality/Oneness.

Benefits: Awareness

• Life is full of peace, bliss, no running, no seeking.
• Feel in control all the time.
• Stability and fearlessness.
• Easy, beautiful, simple life.
• Rise in intelligence and wisdom.
• Natural purification- you will stop all impurities that impact you.
• Tremendous will power: very strong logical and rational, nobody can fool you
• No impurity will touch you.
• Freedom.
• Liberation.