impurity

Noun

Meaning

The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.

That which is, or which renders anything, impure; foul matter, action, language, etc.; a foreign ingredient.

Want of ceremonial purity; defilement.

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Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. Swami Sivananda

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong. Swami Vivekananda

In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity. Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. Georges Bernanos

The man who has no impurity will be helped even by peels he sees on the road. Kikuyu Proverb

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