If I am right, then Purification depends on the Soul’s Aspiration. If one aspires to liberate the Soul from nature, then there is no need to go through the complete process of Purification, but if one can aspire for the liberation of nature, then they pass through all parts of the being as subconscient and inconscient. Is my understanding right? Can you elaborate on this?
Purification is the indispensable basis for liberation. It means removing the covering and coating of ignorance and falsehood that veils the true self. In the yoga seeking for mukti, the purification has to be less thorough. It is enough to bring some sattwic rectitude in nature, satwasanshuddhi. Transformation proper begins after liberation. It means the change of human nature into the divine Supernature. Liberation is with reference to the soul. Transformation is with reference to human nature and hence the purification required is much more thorough. Mere moral and ethical or Sattwic way of life will not do. The whole nature must accept and come under the Divine Influence.
Subconscient and Inconscient, manifesting through old ways of being, repetitive, habitual and mechanical patterns, the old animal ways are taken up in the process of liberation only if and to the extent they obstruct the way. Otherwise, one simply rises or sits above them. In transformation, the process has to be much more thorough-going.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
