I was asked, do you go to Church. My answer was no, the Church comes to me.
The real church is where there is love for God.
What is purity or a pure person? A person who only has love and desires only for God, is pure. Everyone else is impure.
Love demands nothing in return. The love for God is unconditonal and even if God puts you in hell, you still love him as much.
We cannot help anyone. Always use the word serving someone. It brings out humility and the idea of serving God and takes away the ego of action.
Anyone who believes they have given or done charity or given up pleasures in life has a long way to go. Anyone who owns anything has a long way to go also. Both ideas are wrong. We own nothing, we possess nothing. All belongs to God and we make the mistake of feeling we own things, relations, family etc. The free person is he who has no concept of owning something or anything. He (or she) walks and does things freely, feeling to be a child of God or walking in his knowledge or identified with God, or his paramour (more dangerous though), etc !. The free person can go to this state or frame of mind instantly! We have nothing to give to God except ourselves. Since the soul is very intricately associated with Prana, giving ones Prana is the highest one can do. This prana is more than just the breath, it is the very substance that connects this world to the sukshma or subtle world, it is the power house that runs this house and in the highest form, runs the universe!
These excerpts are merely a re written compilation from the Bible, Sri Aurobindo, Vivekananda, MahaYogan Vigyana, Rajyoga, etc
Bhavin