Why wear yellow clothes during religious functions?
Why wear yellow clothes during religious functions?
The concept of uniform has become popular in various fields. Special clothes are required to create an atmosphere in it. It is inappropriate to wear regular clothes during religious activities like worship, homa and daily rituals and Pitra Karya - Shraddha or other religious occasions. There is not only religious punishment but also scientific reason behind this.
Where Punyaah recitation is done on religious occasions, there is no possibility of untouchability even in the kitchen or outside. But chanting mantras on religious occasions like marriage etc. is expected to have maximum effect on the body, mind and intellect. In such a situation, no matter how clean the clothes worn in society and those with bad sanskars may appear, still they should not be used. On the contrary, if other clean clothes are worn, the process of contacting that person automatically slows down. In such a situation, the entire attention of that person remains focused on religious activities. Apart from this, devotion towards religious rituals is generated in the mind of the person.
In ancient times, it was believed that demons take away the fruits of religious activities performed while wearing unclean clothes. One is not allowed to go to the computer room or operation theatre wearing shoes or slippers because untouchability is followed in the true sense there. Then if there is a scriptural order to perform religious activities wearing yellow clothes, then what is wrong in it? If we consider from a scientific point of view, silk or woolen clothes are more auspicious and beneficial for religious activities. During religious activities, the vibrations and electrical waves arising from chanting mantras are reduced, Silk or woolen clothes prove to be very useful for the effect of the mantra on the entire body. They are also easy to clean. At the beginning of religious activities like worship, chanting, penance, rituals, anushthans and purashcharana etc., one should wear yellow clothes, woolen clothes or clean washed clothes and then put on an undergarment. For example - Chineshak woolen clothes and dhootvastram tathaiva cha. Dharmakaryasiddhyarth uttarottar prashasyate. That is, for religious work, silk clothes, woolen clothes and dhoti clothes are considered respectively best. If undergarments are not available, then wear one more sacred thread.
