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What does it mean?
Religious essence is heart purity; seeing God requires a pure heart and viewing the world as divine.
In plain terms
Make your heart pure to see God; treat the world as divine.
What can you take from it?
Spiritual vision depends on inner clarity and perspective.

Where it applies

  • worship
  • daily living
  • moral development

Putting it to work

  • meditation
  • mindful living
  • service

Questions to consider

  • How does purity shape perception?
  • Where is the divine?

Another view

This spiritual view may not align with secular or materialist frameworks.

More from Swami Vivekananda

  1. The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

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  2. The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.

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  3. Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world.

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