Evening Cleaning

How To Do the "Evening Cleaning"?

 

Sit for half an hour with a suggestion to yourself that all complexities and impurities, including grossness, darkness, etc, are leaving the whole system through the back in the form of smoke or vapour, and in their place the sacred current of the Divine is entering your heart from the Master's heart. Do not meditate on those things that you want to get rid of. Simply brush them off.

 

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The Explanation.

 

The evening cleaning is to be done when our whole day's work is over, not before. During a day full of thoughts and activities, we accumulate many impressions. By doing the cleaning when the day's activity is over, we try as far as possible to get rid of the impressions gathered during that day, just as we bathe to cleanse the outer body.

 

The method for doing the daily cleaning is to sit comfortably and to imagine that the day's impressions and complexities are going out of your body from the back in the form of smoke or vapour, and that in their place the sacred current of the Divine is entering into your heart from the Master's heart. As cleaning leads to a state of vacuum, which is automatically filled with divine grace, we may go into meditation. If such a state is felt, we open our eyes for a few seconds, restart adn continue cleaning.

 

The cleaning is a very active process in which we are supposed to use our will power to remove our own impressions. Please note that in the morning meditation there is no use of will power, whereas in the cleaning, the will is involved every definitely and specifically.

 

The cleaning process actually removes the basis of those tendencies which manifest in our actions and behaviour. These tendencies come from the impressions we have created in the past. The cleaning thus allow us to become more natural, more ourselves.

 

In tandem with this process, meditation progressively regulates the mind, giving us a degree of control that helps prevent the formation of further impressions. In this way, meditation and cleaning balance and support each other for our spiritual evolution. Meditation by itself is like having a powerful car stuck in the mud;cleaning by itself is like having a beautiful road with a car on it with no engine. So cleaning is thus of paramount importance for our spiritual progress.