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Moral codes define purity. Purity of mind forms basis for virtuous conduct. The converse is equally true. But how do virtues involute? By mugging up moral codes? Or by reading books? Or by listening to sermons? Or by undertaking religious or spiritual practices? 

This is indeed an intricate question which needs scientific evaluation, but it is expedient to reiterate in terms of the previous posts that the human mind, whether it is full to the brim with vices or virtues or whatever, is a powerful entity which bosses over an ordinary human being till such time the person is able to put the mechanics of the mind in reverse gear. Reverse gear means, exercise of voluntary access, if not control , over the involuntary functions. To repeat, previous posts may please be gone into in detail. 

The first principles of spiritual quest mandate a practitioner at the outset  to purge the mind. To purge doesn't mean to attain purity of the kind discussed above in a Puritan sense. Purging is a simple term but not as simple to attain in terms of the involuntary functions of the mind. 

The most peripheral ebb of the involuntary mind functions are accessible through simple observation of the mental thought processes. Ordinarily, one may find it is not within one's competence to make the mind obey simple command to stop thinking, or to dwell on a single thought or line of thought without interruptions. It may be seen that once one closes the eyes and start observing one's own passing thoughts, weird experiences would arise . 

The term purging the mind means, enabling the mind exhaust its train of thoughts that are filled with unnoticed turbulence . 

So that it does not seem a technical treatise , one may give it a try so that the concept of the law of karma may well be appraised in relation to the various mysteries which, once reasoned out, would lose its mysterious character, revealing facts of life in simple terms that hitherto keep one bewildered or confused about purity vis a vis purification or purging of the mind, the former being a moral prescription, the latter being a fact of life, better say life's biggest constraint until the mind gets befriended, if not tamed, by the practitioner of any spiritual discipline.