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Religious scriptures talk a lot about purity—of mind, thoughts and intentions. Purity is a term that connotes the absence of contamination, or adulteration. In general parlance, it is used in the context of material things like food, water, fuel, gold, silver or other substances of day-to-day use.

In the broad, general sense, purity means the absence of pollutants. The vast visible material nature or universe was created by an omniscient, supernatural and omnipotent Creator who created millions of celestial bodies—planets, luminous stars and other bodies. Planets like Earth are abodes of a multitude of living beings, for whose sustenance, the Creator has created water, cereals, fruits and vegetables.



The Creator has also created metals and minerals in a vast range to serve the needs of living beings, especially humans who are endowed with the intellect of the highest grade and can put those metals and minerals to wide use through the application of knowledge and development of technologies. But where did the knowledge come from? Quite obviously and logically, fundamental knowledge came from the same Creator who created humans and their supporting and nurturing ecosphere. The Creator’s injunctions in primeval texts called Vedas underscore the importance of the term purity and emphasise strongly the need to preserve the purity of not just gross material substances but also subtle entities called the mind, intellect and knowledge.

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