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        Cleanliness is next to godliness, that is a familiar adage. What is sought to be conveyed by this is that mind would feel freer if there is a feeling of freshness.

        A friend of mine then asked me about some mystics who revelled in sitting in drain or bathing in a pond dirtied by buffalo wash. Where is the freshness here, he asked.

        I took him to a mystic who would never change his clothes for months on end. None could not smell anything bad and he exuded the smell of a fine perfume.

        I told him that these persons, having a body, were not affected by externals because they were in total rapport through their souls with their beloved deity.

        They are in a sense the breeze of compassion wafted by God in the direction of those chosen few who had made service to the suffering their life mission.

        It is not possible for ordinary mortals like ourselves to emulate their conduct because dirt would cause us illness and unwashed clothes infections.

        The code for us is that a clean body is a prerequisite for a mind that would be clean enough for God to select it for dwelling in it.

        Of course there are cobwebs of bad thoughts in the mind that has also to be cleared. Saints have slid down from their high status by transgressions caused by bad thoughts.