SADAACHARA SMRUTI - After Wake Up

Day 4

Step 14

Saucha  

To get our inside clean

Should I think of God when I’m doing toilet? It’s actually putting out the dirt from our body.

Yes we should think of god while going to toilet. He is Nitya Sudha(always pure). He is responsible for everything including for our excretion. So we should think our body(deha) Is Shri Hari’s temple(as Jaganada dasar has said in Hari kathamrutha sara). So passing the toile is equivalent to cleaning your temple.

Think as:

While Passing urine: Apanadargatha Anatha Keshavaya nam:

While passing feces- bharathirmana mukya prananthargatha Trivikramaya nam:

*Mrthika saucha

Get clean wih mrthika 

We should apply mrthika - red mud (kempu mannu) for making ourselves clean. Apply for hands, legs and feet and wash or hands and legs.mud destroys worms and germs, saves us from disease than the soap that we use today. Gandusha – after going to toilet, gargle mouth 18 times, since we take off the dirt from our body. After toilet, after eating, returning to home from outside we should wash our hands and legs. We should wash the legs through so it gets wet completely; usually we forget to wash our legs behind hence affected by kali. (Refer to Nala maharaja story).

Step 15

Dantadhavana

Brush  

Things to avoid

* We can avoid the plastic brushes that we are using now.

* We can avoid the imported tooth paste that contains lot of animal fats; instead we can use pastes that are made in India which do not use animal fat.

* We should not walk up and down while brushing, should stand in one place for brushing our teeth.

* It would be good if we brush our teeth facing east (purva) or northeast (isaanya).

Our teeth have to be white and clean. Our tongue should also be clean without bad breadth. 

The best practice is to use neem twigs (sticks) on normal days and mango tree twigs on festival days which our ancestors were following. It naturally kills the germs present in our body ad mouth.

Stotra to be told while brushing (told by Prajapathi)

Ayur balam yasho varchaha

prajaha pasu vasu nicha

Brahma pragynacha medhancha

Twam no dehi vanaspate

Hey vanaspati abhimani devata let my

 ayush – long life

bala – strength

yashas – glory

varchas – activities

prajah – offspring

pashu – cow

vasu – wealth

brahma gyna – knowledge about bramha

medha shakthi –  power of the muscles

While brushing

Bharati ramana mukhya prananthargatha Shri Haraye nama:

Step 16
Darpana darshan

See the mirror

·       We are NOT independent

·       Only Shri Hari is independent. We are dependent on him.

·       Every time we see the mirror, we should think our image is reflection( prathibimba) and Shri Hari is the original (bimba) of our’s.

·       While seeing mirror, instead of seeing us we should see Shri Hari.

·       The other concept is, when seeing the mirror every day we see ourselves with abundant changes. From baby we grown into toddler, child, teenage, etc. So it says we are growing up very fast, be careful we have only few days left.

·       We are adapted to changes; He is the only one who is not affected by any changes.

     Now comb your hair before washing your face. For ladies it is always good if you split your half into equal half (ner/madhya baithale). Because Ganga Devi is in ladies head think of Ganga while combing your hair.  

Step 17

Mukha prakshalane

Washing face

We should comb our hair and wash our face.

While washing face

 Bharati ramana mukhya prananthargatha Shri Madhavaya nama:

As per our guru Madhvacharyaru, we should do achamana, before taking bath (snana). Hence we should comb and wash our face, hands, and legs before entering into puja room.

On the crisp:

Think as:

While Passing urine: Apanadargatha Anatha Keshavaya nam:

While Passing feces - bharathirmana mukya prananthargatha Trivikramaya nam:

After going to toilet MUST gargle mouth.

While brushing

Bharati ramana mukhya prananthargatha Shri Haraye nama:

While seeing mirror think of Shri Hari who is our Bimba moorthy.

While washing face

 Bharati ramana mukhya prananthargatha Shri Madhavaya nama:

 Before washing our face we should wash our hands and legs.