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Why Would I Keep the Temple Clean?

Dr. Monica Gulati

Abstract
This article explores why we need to put in effort to be honest, sincere and vigilant towards our
being and why we need to place so much personal effort at being on guard. It also looks at the
motivation behind putting in effort on the path of self-purification.

to people around.

One would do it, because one has suffered
enough, and seen that most misery is self-
generated. And now one wants to take care of
one’s well-being so much because one doesn’t
want to inflict more suffering on oneself.

As the Mother shares:

“We have to be patient.
You can’t imagine how, as you go forward and
One often wonders, being conscious of every as all that Consciousness, in fact, grows more
ripple in the being, every thought in the being, and more alive, true and constant, how at first
every mood-swing about to overpower you, if you feel you are a rotten bundle of insincerity,
all this requires so much vigilance, so much hypocrisy, lack of faith, doubt, stupidity.
effort, why would one do it? Because as (how can I explain?…) as the balance
changes between the parts of the being and as the
Well, one would do it out of love towards luminous part increases, the rest grows more
oneself. and more inadequate and intolerable. Then you
are really utterly disgusted (there was a time
One would do it, because when one’s being when it used to hurt me, long ago — not so long
is organised and sorted within, it is a blessing ago, but anyway long enough, a few years ago),

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