Shloka : 49

प्रत्यहं तु प्रबोद्धव्यं पूर्वमेवोदयाद्रवे: ।

विधाय कृष्णस्मरणं कार्य: शौचविधिस्तत: ॥ 49 ॥

અને અમારા સત્સંગી તેમણે નિત્યે સૂર્ય ઊગ્યાથી પ્રથમ જ જાગવું અને શ્રીકૃષ્ણભગવાનનું સ્મરણ કરીને પછી શૌચવિધિ કરવા જવું. ॥ 49 ॥

And everyday my devotees should wake up before sun­rise, remember Shri Krishna Bhagwan and then go for the daily cleansing activities. || 49 ||

Commentary

The Grihastha (householder) and Tyagi (saint) devotees of Shri Hari should get up in Brahmamuhurt i.e. last quarter of the night and recite the names of Shri Hari as well as that of His liber­ated devotees i.e. Muktas and then should meditate on Shri Swaminarayan Bhagwan with total concentration for some time.

After performing the meditation etc. in the early morning, one should go out of town with a container of water to eliminate the wastes from the body. In an uninhabited place one should excrete and then should perform the body cleansing. The cleansing should be performed without any laziness using pure water and clay, so that there is no dirt and not even odour. To perform the cleans­ing, the dust from the roadside or the impure hardened soil mixed with excrete or the clay from the anthills or the clay full of germs should not be used.

In this age of proper bathrooms, this is irrelavent. Because Shri Hari Himself has instructed to behave according to time and place.

Now, there are two types of cleansing, one is outer and the other is inner. Now the cleansing using the water and the clay is outer cleansing. The other is 'Maanas' i.e. purification of mind and emotions. To get rid of impurities like attachment, hatred, pride, jealousy, lust, anger, ego, cheating or cunningness etc. is called the inner cleansing. Only outer cleansing does not make one completely pure. But outer as well as inner cleansing gives total purity. The one, who performs only outer purification and does not purify the mind, does not achieve any result. Therefore the devotees of Shri Hari should perform both inner as well as outer purification.