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dust and nothing else.
One has to clean all thoughts
Then purity is attained.
Purity has nothing to do with morality.
Of course, a pure heart is moral but
A moral person need not be pure.
A moral person is still living in his head
His morality is still a domination of the head.
The head is saying, 'Do this, don't do that.'
And the head is very calculative:
It calculates about this world
It calculates bout the other too.
It does not know purity because
it is not innocent, hence remember:
Morality does not lead to purity,
The vice versa is not true.
Purity certainly leads to mortality
But first comes purity, then morality follows.
And the second meaning is clean
Spotlessly clean.
Mind is cunning, it cannot be clean.
It is crafty, it is continuously playing tricks
With others and with oneself -- it is a politician.
Heart is love and only love can be clean.
Diplomacy is bound to be dirty.
The third meaning is crystal.
Gurdjieff used to say, 'Unless a man
Becomes crystalized, he has no soul.'
If he was giving you the name, he would have
Simply jumped upon the word 'crystal', because
That contains his whole philosophy.
Ordinarily a man is a crowd, fragments --
He is not one, he is many, he is multi-psychic
And that is his misery:
There is constant war inside
All the fragments are fighting for supremacy.
And this is how our whole life is wasted:
Our all energies go down the drain
And man needs a single centre of being
And that is crystallization.
Meditation brings crystallization
It melts the many fragments
Into one integral whole.
And there are other three meanings also:
Beauty, grace and devotion -- they are by-products.
One who is pure, clean and crystallized
He is bound to be beautiful.
A tremendous inner beauty arises
And it radiates outside. Life becomes graceful.
All ugliness and meanness disappears
One starts enjoying
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