Not only is the positive movement of self- giving necessary but also the negative movement of rejection of everything in you that opposes this giving. You must not leave things "like that," buried somewhere, in such a way that at the first opportunity they wake up and undo all your work…
{Some} have completely neglected cleaning their room; it has remained as dirty as ever, and so, naturally, when the {spiritual} experience has gone, this dirt becomes still more repulsive than before.
One must never neglect to clean one's room, it is very important; inner cleanliness is at least as important as outer cleanliness.
Swami Vivekananda has written (I do not know the original, I have only read the French translation): "One must every morning clean one's soul and one's body, but if you do not have time for both, it is better to clean the soul than clean the body."
