Pure in Every Way

Meaning: According to the Athervaved 6/19/2 - Our ancient rishis has prayed with God that "O God, may devotion and desire for work develop in me. May I be granted health and life, Please makes me pure in every way".
Message: Man must remain pure from outside as well as inside because cheerfulness lies in purity. In a pure atmosphere, the mind's cheerfulness, coolness, peace, freedom from worry, stability and truth does not remain hidden. Beauty lies in liveliness, alertness, good taste, simplicity, cleanliness and orderliness. That is called purity.
Purity is a spiritual quality. By nature, the soul is pure and beautiful; therefore a spiritual man's thoughts, conduct and things are always clean and beautiful.
Man should always pay attention to outer and inner cleanliness. Man becomes excellent, courteous, gentleman and cultured with inner purity. Mental purity inspires a man towards an austere, restrained and regulated life, by which he becomes blessed with good health and long life. His senses become powerful and profound. The senses are administered by the mind. Mind influences the body by right or wrong wishes.
Along with bodily and mental purity, spiritual purity is also necessary, because without it, the main goal of life, i.e. spiritual salvation cannot be achieved. With spiritual purity, noble emotions like love, devotion, pity, generosity and helpfulness are aroused, and divinity develops. Usually the attitudes and emotions of tamogun and rajogun prevail in men.
Spiritual-endeavor develops satogun or satvagun in man. The development and increase of satogun in man makes him lively and 'pranvaan' (i.e. powerful with the force of life-breath or energetic or capable of endurance) ojasvi (i.e. luminous with alertness in senses) tejesvi (i.e. bright with intelligence) and varchasvi (i.e. with power to influence others because of increased spirituality and strength of character). Satogun makes a man praiseworthy because of satsang (company of God through saints, learned religious persons, attending religious discourses), regular study (of religious-books and self), service, restraint and sadhana (i.e. spiritual-discipline or spiritual-endeavor).
The scriptures have specifically stated that by birth we are all shudra (or low-caste) and nobody is born a Brahman-caste. For becoming a Brahman, spiritual strength, the strength of austerity, moral strength and religious (i.e. moral) conduct are required. A man who does not have these qualities is lower than a Shudra-cante person even though he may be born in a Brahman-caste family. Becoming a Brahman is possible only when man's mind is transformed and his general character changes. By mere outer show of religious symbols, nothing happens. Hypocrisy and façade are our greatest enemies. One does not achieve success by a difference in thinking and action. Devotion and an attitude of 'work is worship' develop in those whose thinking and action show unity. Such people achieve success in every task and inspire people in their contact to go on the path of morality and good deeds. With their talent and capability they are able to sow the seeds of 'satvikta' i.e. qualities of 'satogun' by removing from the people's minds tamasik and rajasik activities (i.e. those related to tamogun and rajogun) and make their lives clean and pure.
Achievement of life's aim is possible through bodily, mental and spiritual purity.