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  • The Importance of Devotional Dress

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    Author: Srimati Bhakti Lalita Devi Dasi Cycle: Beauty Over Power
    Duration: 00:03:24 Date: 2016-05-16 Size: 9.22Mb Place: Gupta Govardhan Chiang Mai Downloaded: 2416 Played: 5202

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    00:00:00
    We have to be practical and try to strive for the perfect ideal. Bhakti Lalita: Perfect ideal is there and that is to where clean devotional cloth. And for women saries, tilak, for men dhotis and tilak.
    00:00:19
    When they're engaged and service in the worship and, if that is, you know, if someone's know maintaining that perfect ideal then we do our best. And try to at least minimally be chased. You know, little respactable at the temple  and as much as possible, wearing long skirts not short skirts and, you know, at least clean and well dressed there's gopi skirts, quite popular now in India and some people, some women finf them is here to wear and saris.
    00:01:12
    Next time someone goes to India we can bring a bunch back. Let's se, if that's more comfortable, just a skirt a piece of cloth, like a t-shirt ...underneath.
    00:01:29
    And it's maybe some of ladies will be morecomfortable with that. Saris even been wearing  a sari twentee years and as soon as i can take it off i do. Because there not comfortable all the time. And i wear them every day, but accepted as part of my life, like wearing my sari.
    00:01:58
    .3 Then i go in my room my off times i pt on my skirt, something saffron are comfortable. But we have to be practical. And try to strive for that perfect ideals and a lot of times, what we do is less than ideal that we keep trying harder every day.
    00:02:29
    If we look at videomark rules and regulations within vaisnav culture, it's very elaborately can be very overhelming for some, but in those set of rules and regulations clothing. Get's contaminated after eating even, what to speak, if you still something on you and then yue like, if you have prasadam shouldn't go into the kitchen and prepared bhoga with cloth prasadam touched or worship of deity and unclean close.
    00:03:10
    So, it's roul and regulation especially for the worship of the deity in service in the temple and prepering the food offerings must always be clean.