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Bathing Rules: know what things should not be done before and after it
Best Time To Bathe: Know Rules According To Hindu Beliefs: In Hinduism, many rules and measures have been given for doing important work as well as the daily activities of a person, by adopting which a person gets happiness and good fortune. In the Sanatan tradition, it is considered necessary to be pure in body and mind to do any work, and for this, a rule of taking a bath daily has been made, but do you know that there are some rules regarding this bath as well? When should one take a bath, and when should one not? Is it auspicious or inauspicious to take a bath naked? After doing what things, one should not take a bath immediately? Let us know the answers to all these questions in detail.
When and how should have a bath?
- According to the mythology, a man should take a bath in the morning instead of at night. According to Hindu belief, after taking a bath in the morning, a man feels positive energy within himself.
- According to Hindu belief, while taking a bath in the morning at home or outside in any river or pond, a person should chant the mantra Ganga Cha Yamune Chaiva Godavari Saraswati, Narmade Sindhu Kaveri Jalesmin Sannidhim Kuru for auspiciousness and good fortune.
- According to Hindu belief, one should always wear clean clothes after taking a bath. The clothes worn after taking a bath are considered to be a flaw. It is believed that wearing clothes worn earlier, after taking a bath, can lead to harm due to negative energy.
- In the Sanatan tradition, worship is considered a very sacred act, and bathing is considered extremely necessary for doing it. In such a situation, neither worship should be done nor things related to worship should be touched without bathing.
- According to Hindu belief, one should never cook food or eat cooked food without taking a bath.
Always keep these things in mind while bathing:
- According to Hindu beliefs, one should never take a bath after eating food, rather one should eat food only after taking a bath. Not only religion, science also says that one should not take a bath after eating food.
- There is a religious belief that one should never bathe with the water left after someone else has bathed. Similarly, if a person is bathing at a well or hand pump, he should take out water himself and then bathe.
- If you go to take a bath in a holy river or pond, then after bathing you should not wash your clothes in it even by mistake and neither should you excrete or urinate in the water while bathing.
- According to Hindu belief, one should never take a bath naked. It is believed that a person who ignores this rule is affected by Pitra Dosha.
- It is believed that after taking a bath, neither should one pluck flowers for worship nor should one clean the utensils used for worship. Both these tasks should be done before taking a bath.
