Saucham
(purity) means cleanliness or purity. We must first focus on gross or
physical purity and later we can concentrate on subtle or inner purity.
Saucham can be understood as keeping ourselves and everything around us
clean. This includes our body, clothes, possessions and house. Saucham is
not only cleanliness but orderliness. Our house may be very clean but due to
disorderliness we nay have to search for anything and everything. A good
maxim to follow is 'a place for everything and everything in its place'.
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