Aum Namah Shivay.
Can We Do Puja Without Maintaining Hygiene?
Well, here is what different scriptures mention about this. Read it completely and you will get all kind of answers related to this question:
Vishnu Smrti - Chapter 64, Verse 9:
न चाशौचवता कार्यं देवतार्चनकर्म वै ।
यस्तत्करोति मोहेन तस्य तन्निष्फलं भवेत् ॥
Meaning - A person who is in a state of impurity must indeed not perform the act of worshipping the deity. He/she who performs it out of delusion, that act of his shall become fruitless.
According to Kularnava Tantra - Chapter 9, Verse 88-
न वारिणा शुध्यते देही नान्तःशौचेन शुध्यति । अन्तःशौचेन शुध्यन्ति तस्मादन्तः शुचिर्भवेत् ॥
The embodied atma is not purified by water, nor is it purified without internal purity. It is by internal purity that beings are purified; therefore, one should be pure within.
According to Garuḍa Puraṇ - Parva Khaṇḍa, Chapter 222 -
अपवित्रः पवित्रो वा सर्वावस्थां गतोऽपि वा ।
यः स्मरेत्पुण्डरीकाक्षं स बाह्याभ्यन्तरः शुचिः ॥
Whether a person is impure or pure, or even if he/she has passed through all possible states (of impurity), he/she who remembers the Lotus-eyed god (Vishnu) becomes pure both externally and internally.
Manusmrti - Chapter 2, Verse 60-
अद्भिः गात्राणि शुध्यन्ति मनः सत्येन शुध्यति ।
विद्यातपोभ्यां भूतात्मा बुद्धिर्ज्ञानेन शुध्यति ॥
The limbs of the body are purified by water, the mind is purified by truth; the individual atma is purified by learning and austerity; and the intellect is purified by knowledge.
Aapka Apna
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