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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.
Similarly, the moment your thoughts say, “But I am feeling this way.” or you feel like defending yourself arguing to somebody else. But I think: ‘snake’, what? ‘snake’. There's something that you have to linguistically train in. It's a thing of language, so it might not be very difficult to do.
Develop a linguistic allergy to certain words and phrases. Just the word should mean danger. Danger. Feeling ! danger! Now what does this do? Does this make you dead and insensitive to feeling? That's how it sounds. No, that does not happen. Something else happens. We’ve already talked about it.
Now your feelings are not worth throwing away. When feelings start meaning danger to you, then what you feel starts having a certain purity. Are you getting it? It’s as if feelings were not a danger on their own, it's as if the feelings were carrying a pathogen on their back.
And when you started distrusting your feelings, it's the pathogen that got blocked. It's as if the vehicle is not evil in itself, but the vehicle was being used to carry a lot of mischief makers. But what do you do? How do you stop the mischief makers? The mischief makers are all coming to you in a vehicle, how do you stop them? You stop the damn vehicle. Thoughts and feelings and your personal self and experiences and perceptions are the vehicle that carry the mischief makers. Stop the vehicle.
Think of this: you have these barricades on the road. Are the barricades meant to stop vehicles or people? Actually they want to stop people but the thing is: if only the people were to be stopped, no barricade can stop a person. You know how a barricade is. If you were just walking, would the barricade be able to stop you? It’s a strange thing.
You very well know that the person has no power to travel so far without the vehicle. So, if the person is to be stopped, the vehicle is to be stopped. So you make an arrangement that stops the vehicle. Similarly, all rubbish comes to you in forms of your personal impulses of consciousness, this is me, this is my life, this is this, this is that, this is that, stop it, barricade it.
What’s written on the barricade? ‘Stop’ and you have a guard patrolling it, preferably with a gun. It's needed. Some dude might just decide to blast with a barricade. So, then you require something to puncture his tires. Getting it? The same vehicle can carry something extremely pious, very holy. Bhāva can be the purest thing in the world.
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