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Ritual purification is a ritual prescribed by a religion through which a person is considered to be freed of uncleanliness, especially prior to the worship of a deity, and ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness. Ritual purification may also apply to objects and places.
Theravada Buddhism regards the path of self-purification as absolutely vital for reaching Nibbana.The main task of the Theravada Buddhist monk is to eradicate flaws in morality and character through meditation and moral cultivation, in alliance with the cultivation of insight or wisdom (), so that the purity of Nibbana can be achieved.
Harae or harai (祓 or 祓い) is the general term for ritual purification in Shinto. Harae is one of four essential elements involved in a Shinto ceremony. [1] The purpose is the purification of pollution or sins and uncleanness . [2] These concepts include bad luck and disease as well as guilt in the English sense.
Purity (Arabic: طهارة, ṭahāra(h) [1]) is an essential aspect of Islam.It is the opposite of najāsa, the state of being ritually impure.It is achieved by first removing physical impurities (for example, urine) from the body, and then removing ritual impurity through wudu (usually) or ghusl.
Shaucha is included as one of five niyamas in Yoga, that is activity that is recommended for spiritual development of an individual. Verse II.32 of Yogasutra lists the five niyamas . [ 16 ] In verse II.40, Patanjali describes outer purity, while verse II.41 discusses inner purity, [ 3 ] as follows:
In Jewish religious law, there is a category of specific Jewish purity laws, defining what is ritually impure or pure: ṭum'ah (Hebrew: טומאה, pronounced) and ṭaharah (Hebrew: טהרה, pronounced) are the state of being ritually "impure" and "pure", respectively.
[24] [22] The practice of ablutions before prayer and worship in Christianity symbolizes "separation from sins of the spirit and surrender to the Lord." [22] The Bible has many rituals of purification relating to menstruation, childbirth, sexual relations, nocturnal emission, unusual bodily fluids, skin disease, death, and animal sacrifices.
The Dark Night of the Soul (Spanish: La noche oscura del alma) is a phase of passive purification in the mystical development of the individual's spirit, according to the 16th-century Spanish mystic and Catholic poet St. John of the Cross.