What's the apt time to take bath?

Maha Swamy keeps emphasising the way to live is shastric way.

But how many of us do that, despite being so staunch in our devotion to Him, is not a million dollar question.

Saving grace is, thanks to His grace and our Darsn of Him even if that was just a glimpse, we do try to follow His advices, if not all, at the least a few.

The very first thing, He quotes a sloka stressing on the need to take bath very early in the morning, that's 90 minutes - 3 and 3/4 நாழிகை - before Sunrise.   நாழிகை = 24 minutes. The sloka is:

'ப்ராத : ஸ்நானம் ப்ரசம்ஸந்தி த்ருஷ்டாத்ருஷ்ட பலம் ஹி தத்'.

People need motivation to do anything. This sloka also refers two benefits - the first is so visible and immediate and the other is not so but may happen later either within one's lifetime or beyond.

The word,

த்ருஷ்டா here is what is visible and you can feel instantly.

Whereas

அத்ருஷ்டா here doesn't denote luck, but to one which is not visible. Because it's invisible, it doesn't mean it's not there at all.

Coming back to the right time to take bath, as referred to above, is 90 minutes before Sunrise. Supposing Sunrise is at six o clock, the time to take bath is before 4.30 in the morning. This time is referred to as Sunrise period, ப்ராத காலம்.

Should you switch on your geisher?

No.

Use  the chill water.

Should you bathe your head?

Yes. From head to toe.

Mandatory for male all days.

Women may bathe head on fasting days and pitru pitru  days(the day on which we pay obeisance to late parents). The other days, they must sprinkle turmeric water over their head.

Benefits of ப்ராத ஸ்நானம்:

You can feel cleanliness instantly.

Sleepiness goes away and you become alert.

You feel a kind of loveliness and become brisk.

Your mind is clear.

Your nervous system gets strengthened.

Psychologically, you feel very balanced.

When you chant the name of God wholeheartedly while bathing, the value addition is you get more spiritual.

The sastra lays more emphasis on invisible benefits of ப்ராத : ஸ்நானம்.  Just because we may not derive any instant benefits, it doesn't mean The Almighty holds back. He's Almighty and knows the right time, right mode to deliver - the reason why true Maharshis, Saints incarnate and live as contemporaries.

May we try a leaf,

Leaf of living the sastric way.

God bless.