“Our roots have to go down into dharma,” Talk at Djamel’s house, St Albans, England, July 6, 1977 So today I want to tell you about purity. That is my name, you know that, Nir-mala. ’Ni’ means ‘no’; ’mala’ means ‘impurities’. The one who has no impurities is Nirmala, and that’s one of the names of Goddess also.  Purity is a quality which is silent. It speaks in silence. It is one of the most non-aggressive activities. It probes into you. It doesn’t express in any way. Even love may express: in words, it may express in action. But this is the one which is expressionless, the purity. And it washes off all that is impure.  You cannot, by rationality, understand how it works out. You have to feel it and know it, that it is working out its process. It’s very delicate. Sometimes it’s flooding also. But is never shocking, never. When I say that, I find the human ideas have become lob-headed (sic). When do we become ‘lob’, means upside down? When we are plunging into something. We are plunging into something where we are going to get destroyed. We are upside-down. This comes out of impurities, that you cannot see things directly in their right perspective.  So let us see what are the things which we think create impurities in us. They say it in two words, you see: lust and greed. In Sanskrit they will say, “kama [erostism], Kanaka [gold]”; woman and gold. But ‘woman’ doesn’t mean, Read More …