{"id":161,"date":"2009-08-01T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2009-08-01T22:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tarunmendiratta.com\/hawan.net\/hawan\/wordpress\/?p=161"},"modified":"2017-01-31T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:09:39","slug":"cleanliness-purity-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Cleanliness &#8211; Purity (August 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard of the saying \u201cCleanliness is next to Godliness\u201d. Cleanliness or purity \u00a0is one of the Niyam. \u00a0Niyams are second limb of Yoga. They are articles of personal discipline. There are two types cleanliness: External cleanliness and Internal purity. External cleanliness means cleanliness of body, clothes, surroundings, food and professional life specially the ways of earning money. Internal sauch means purity of mind and intellect, thought and feelings, the purity of heart and soul. When a person is clean and pure he enjoys many advantages in life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advantages of Sauch \/Cleanliness:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>First benefit of cleanliness is clarity and      purity of intelligence. With clarity in intelligence, you are able to      understand the good &amp; evil, loss &amp; gain, truth &amp; untruth. It      is said that man of intelligence is the man of power- <em>Buddhir yasya      balam tasya<\/em>. If your intelligence is pure, you can use it for good of      yourself and others.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol>\n<li>Cleanliness leads to a cheerful mind. One can      concentrate a cheerful mind easily. Once you can concentrate, you can      control and master your senses.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol>\n<li>Staying clean gives you self confidence.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol>\n<li>The link between bodily cleanliness and moral      purity is evident through Hindu culture. We clean our body and mind before      we go to temple. We do aachman mantras before we perform hawan.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ol>\n<li>Cleanliness helps prevent illnesses or diseases<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Few Quotes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSplendor, forgiveness, fortitude, <strong>cleanliness,<\/strong> absence of malice, and absence of pride, these are the qualities of those endowed      with divine virtues, O Arjuna.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From Bhagwat Gita<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA person might be an expert in any field of      knowledge or a master of many material skills &amp; accomplishments. But      without inner cleanliness his brain is desert waste.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all heard of the saying \u201cCleanliness is next to Godliness\u201d. Cleanliness or purity \u00a0is one of the Niyam. \u00a0Niyams are second limb of Yoga. They are articles of personal discipline. There are two types cleanliness: External cleanliness and Internal purity. External cleanliness means cleanliness of body, clothes, surroundings, food and professional life specially the ways of earning money. Internal [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-monthly-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}