Anniversary of Newness-Brightness-Happiness Laundromat — Inner and Outer Purity

The freshness of our clothes gives us tremendous joy. When we wear clean, fresh clothes, we get tremendous joy, and this joy is absolutely real – not unreal. In exactly the same way, a little purity is needed in the mind to clean the body, the vital and even the heart, when they become impure. When we can maintain purity in the mind, we get new satisfaction, illumining satisfaction and fulfilling satisfaction in life. Our hope for a better life, a higher life, starts blossoming.

From clean clothes, the outer body gets satisfaction. When the outer body gets satisfaction, in the inner life it becomes easier to please God. This Divine Enterprise of ours, of our Lord Supreme, is constantly reminding us of our inner existence. In our outer life we get tremendous help from clean clothes to derive joy. Similarly, tremendous and more significant joy we get from the cleanliness of the mind.

I am very, very pleased with this Divine Enterprise. Every morning I leave my house after eight, and I pass by here. Maral, yours is the only Divine Enterprise that gets daily blessings from me. As soon as I look at this side of the street, my divine blessings enter into this Divine Enterprise, so you can be very happy and very proud. But you have to be divinely proud, not undivinely proud. To be undivinely proud is the dance of ego – then finished! All my joy will go away.

Yesterday I entered into the Greek deli which is next door to here. The owner was so happy to see me in his shop. Every time I enter into his shop, he gets tremendous joy. This joy he gets because next door is our Divine Enterprise. I am sure every day he gets good business from your customers. But he has been nice to me for a very, very, very long time – very, very nice.

Again, to come back to the inner and outer purity, from inside you go outside, and again, from outside you go inside. With our inner aspiration, we go outside. Similarly, from outer cleanliness we enter into inner purity, and vice versa, from inner purity we enter into outer cleanliness. They go side by side. We cannot neglect one while accepting the other. No, both we have to accept with equal joy and equal love. Then we can become perfect human beings, both in the inner world and in the outer world.