Niyama (The five "observances"): Śauca (purity, clearness of mind, speech and body), Santosha (contentment, acceptance of others and of one's circumstances), Tapas (persistent meditation, perseverance, austerity), Svādhyāya (study of self, self-reflection, study of Vedas), and Ishvara-Pranidhana (contemplation of God/Supreme Being/True Self).
He preferred, as his exasperated and articulate assassin put it, such "old superstitious beliefs" as the "power of the soul, the inner voice, the fast, the prayer and the purity of the mind".
In a remarkably coherent statement in court, Godse explained that he had killed Gandhi in order to cleanse India of such "old superstitious beliefs" as the "power of the soul, the inner voice, the fast, the prayer and the purity of the mind".
When Zen talks of returning to one's "original face before one's parents were born," we find the Daoist ideas of "forgetting the ego" and "returning to the root" linked together with the Mahāyāna Buddhist notion of the "original purity of the mind".
The original brightness and purity of the mind, which lies hidden beneath the clouds of defiling passion, is also frequently expressed in Mahāyāna texts with the analogy of a mirror that is able to spontaneously reflect the world without egoistic discriminations.
This sets the intention of purity of heart, mind and soul.
Interview With a Ketamine Chemist.
I think this purity of thought and mind is one of the many reasons I continue to do what I do.
(And lest we idealize these rebels, keep in mind that many of them were climbing for the glory, and with the backing, of the Reich, perhaps with a different idea of purity in mind).
