Rishi Ranjan is India Head and General Manager for a multinational cloud services company, with over 28 years in senior IT leadership. A Heartfulness Trainer for nearly three decades, he shares practical spirituality and the Bhagavad Gita through radio, online media, and global meditation and leadership programs.

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<h4>RISHI RANJAN explores the concept of purity and how it can weave our destiny.</h4>Suppose our hands are dirty, what do we do? We wash them to make them clean. If our house is not clean, we remove some added elements that were making it dirty or messy. What are we doing? We are not adding purity from outside, but only removing the outside elements that were making it impure. Hence we do not add purity from outside, we only restore purity, which is already there.We are in fact making our hands the way they were at the start, before doing any activity. We are restoring our house to the condition before any activity, by removing the other elements that made it impure. Hence, when we say ‘restore purity’ we are trying to say restore the original condition.<hr><h4 style="text-align:center;">We are not adding purity from outside, but only removing the outside elements that were making it impure. Hence we do not add purity from outside, we only restore purity, which is already there.</h4><hr>Therefore, from our understanding,&nbsp; PURITY = ORIGINAL CONDITIONLet’s think about impurity. Can we think of impurity as the first quality for anything? We cannot say anything is impure without the underlying latent idea that there is purity. The idea of impurity does not exist without the idea of purity. So impurity is nothing but a progressive degradation of purity. So whatever we see around us that is impure is away from its original condition.Therefore, from our understanding,&nbsp; IMPURITY = AWAY FROM ORIGINAL CONDITIONWhat creates this movement away from the original condition?andHow can we restore the original condition?IMPURITY = IM + PURITYWhen we add our own idea of ‘doer’ship to our actions, we add impressions. We add the elements of our own individual mind with all its complex functioning, and it is like soiling our hands.PURITY = IMPURITY – IMAll we have to do is remove ‘IM’ from our current condition and we will be moving towards the original condition. In fact, when we say impurity, we are saying IM PURITY, that is, we are stating our original condition.So try to feel IM PURITY. How does it feel to move towards our original condition? That is where, I think, “purity weaves destiny” in the true sense.&nbsp;