Acharya Prashant: Nothing purifies you more than this and nothing is more difficult to remember and accept than this. It is a very strange method but this is the only method. All other methods are just humbug. What is the method towards purity?
Always know how impure you are. Never let your mind hoodwink you into a feeling of its honesty or cleanliness. We are born unclean, dishonest, impure. At any moment, this is the method: ask yourself, “Am I in my personal world? Am I in any world?” Because any world you are in, is bound to be a personal world. You could phrase this question in many ways depending on your own inner stuff. Is something happening in my consciousness right now? If something is happening in your consciousness right now, you are in a trap. This is what simplicity means you know: to have a still consciousness in which nothing at all is happening. And when nothing at all is happening in the consciousness, then all that which needs to happen just happens.
You must develop with practice some kind of an allergy to certain words: I felt, I thought, this is the way I am, this is how I do it. The moment you utter these words or phrases or they come in your thoughts, you should immediately just reject them. An alarm should go off, a resistance should be triggered, something bad just happened. With practice you must allow this to be deeply memorized. You see, even if somebody shouts ‘fire’, do you take time to react? You have let the word sink deep into your memory. The moment you hear that word, you know something improper is happening. Somebody just shouted ‘fire’.
You cannot say, “I’m so tolerant of the word that when the word came to me, I said, “Fine, I’ll consider it 15 minutes later.””, right? Similarly the moment you hear, “I felt.” there must be an inner resistance just as you resist fire or snake. Somebody shouts ‘snake’. Somebody doesn't even have to shout ‘snake’, somebody just whispers ‘snake’. In fact a whisper is even more scary, right? You know ‘snake’, right? And you know it's an emergency.
