A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
(śodhana) is an important concept and practice in Hinduism on several levels: (1) ritual purification is necessary if caste regulations have been broken and before important pūjās; (2) physical purification is done both externally as a part of one’s daily religious duty and more elaborately on some religious occasions, and internally by some types of sādhus and as a Hatha Yoga procedure; (3) psychical or ‘subtly biological’ purification means clearing the .png)
in the subtle body by Hatha Yoga practices which involves 
procedures; (4) spiritual purification requires moral discipline (such as Patañjali’s yama and niyama) and the freeing of the mind from worldly concerns by meditational techniques.
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