Ritual Purity or Moral Purity

In all the religions, some specific rituals are performed. The specific methods and guidelines have been prescribed to perform the rituals. It is said that, the missing of the purity and the prescribed guidelines in performing rituals is bereft of the result. The distinct rituals in distinct religions are the external symbols to create the internal purity. The spirituality, the knowledge of the spirit, cannot be regained without internal and moral purity. The purpose of all the religions is to get the knowledge of the spirit, the true self. There could be different methods to get the knowledge of the true self. The different-different religions have devised the distinct method or rituals to gain the knowledge of the spirit, depending upon the geographical and life-style constraints.

The internal purity can be attained by the knowledge, devotional services and rituals. These are the options available for one to know the true self. The persons who is elite and knowledgeable, for those do not require any rituals, because, they understand the spirit by the study of scripture and contemplation on that. It is not possible for all the people to study scripture and understand it and contemplate on that, for them, rituals were constituted to get the benefit and replicate those for the internal purity.  Those persons, for whom, rituals also look tough, they have option to indulge in devotional service, by this also, the internal purity can be gained.

The knowledge of the scripture is worthless without implementation its learning in the moral purity. The devotional services are useless without understanding its real purpose. It is sin, if it is being done for ostentation, and to gain the benefit of any kind materially. No matter how correctly and with purity, one is performing the rituals, if its meaning is not understood, and it is not replicating directly to your moral correctness and purity, it is waste and bereft of any result. The purity of the rituals does not make any sense, if it is not helping in your moral purity. Moral purity is the door to reach to your spirit. Even you are not studied all the scripture, not indulge in devotional service, not performing any rituals, yet you understand the purpose behind that, you can purity your moral, the door of spirituality. It is always supportive to pay attention on the moral purity rather than ritual purity.