The experience can be cathartic, a physical and spiritual purification that leaves one calm and ready to face the world again.

As a symbol of a spiritual purification, the individual or individuals would observe a fasting and abstinence period before the ritual day.

At this level they learned Hadiths, jurisprudence and the sciences of spiritual purification according to Islam.

In Sufism, the major wali are considered to have been masters in the art of spiritual purification.

While many rituals focus on personal communion with the divine and spiritual purification, others often seek "magical" results, such as healing or good luck in battle.

Many people around the world believed that bathing in a particular spring, well, or river resulted in physical and spiritual purification.

Women come here to dunk for spiritual purification.

It is the path of spiritual purification.

Orr founded conscious breathing as one of the five aspects of spiritual purification that he still supports today.

In contrast, those who did not obey the rules and were wicked would spend time in Gehenna for spiritual purification.