"Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without self-purification the observance of the law of Ahimsa (Nonviolence) must remain an empty dream; God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart.
Self-purification therefore must mean purification in all the walks of life. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings.
But the path of self-purification is hard and steep. To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action; to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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