The Three Impurities
Mala means impurity, bondage or poison. The three impurities are responsible of the limitation of the divine condition. When they are transcended, the limited being becomes liberated.
- āṇavamala - being incomplete, non-full
- māyā mala - limitation in knowledge, avidyā, illusion
- kārma mala - limitation in the power of action, wrong identification of the author of action with the limited self instead of Śiva
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Famous quotes containing the word impurities:
“In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that’s why you’re not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.”
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)