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Wishing you a Wonderful Diwali
and a Blissful New Year
filled with Peace, Prosperity, Awareness and Realization

 
This time I will take up an external cum internal topic. Something which is part of daily life, but our arrow in thinking towards it, is always pointed to external and never internal... Yes it is clothes... The clothes you wear... I am prompted to take this topic following many hundreds questions of the following type: (You are requested to read the full e-mail twice patiently)
 
Q. Sometimes I see you in crimson colored dress, sometimes in white, sometimes in green, sometimes in black, sometimes in yellow, sometimes in maroon, sometimes in jeans, sometimes in suit, sometimes in shirt, sometimes in T-shirt? I am really confused... where and who are you?
 
Q. What is the meaning of wearing Bhagva as so many saints wear it?
 
Q. When a person wears Bhagva isn't he trying to look different and hasn't it got nothing to do with Sanyas or Spirituality?
 
Q. Why should people wear Kurta Payjama or Indian dresses? Why not have one standard internationally?
 
Q. Why do people sweat like horse and go on wearing shirts, jeans and suits in hot climate of India. Hasn't the capitalistic vested interests of EU, UK and US made Indians slave? Isn't it an open acknowledgement of mental slavery to wear a totally unfit dress for your climate?
 
Q. Why do I feel comfortable in kurta pyjama or lungi and not in Jeans? And still when I am out I wear jeans... Why?
 
Q. Is there any science or reasons behind the clothes? Especially behind wearing white or orange or yellow clothes as is done traditionally in many religions?
 
Q. Is it necessary to wear Bhagwa to become Sanyasi?

(01) Only idiots, stupids, Muddhas, jealous and brainwashed people who are absolutely uprooted from their culture and religion will say that people  wearing Bhagwa or White etc. want to look different or pious or great...
 
When people who suddenly get money and become big industrialists and start wearing three piece suits we don't say or ask to the person hey why you are wearing suits always? Is that because you want to look different?
 
You don't ask to a person wearing two different colored legs of a pant or jeans that why he is wearing that? And isn't that because he wants to look different?
 
Or when people wear rings in their ears or nose or shave their heads or shave half of their heads with some designs or wear torn jeans or shorts or wear patched shirts, blazers and jeans or wear thin fabrics showing them naked or pierce their bodies or have grotesquerie hair styles, we don't say they want to look different? Then why only with Bhagwa or white etc. or Indian dress or regional dress?
 
The fact of the day is everybody wants to look different that is why they spend in fashion and style... In fact this is the mirage a person lives in 'I AM DIFFERENT'
 
So in reality a person who wears Bhagwa or white etc. knowing perfectly well its meaning and science isn't wearing it for looking different. There are 1001 ways to look different (and hence no need to wear such clothes as Bhagva or White etc.) ... In fact a person needs a lot of courage to wear such dress, if he or she has society in his or her mind... It is very easy to say that oh there is nothing I can wear... But actual wearing... and wearing after complete understanding of why is a different case... better said than done...
 
So in short there is complete science and higher being consciousness behind those clothes and not itty pity stupid psychology of looking 'different or pious or great etc.'...
 
In fact there is complete science of clothes (which means scientific reasons behind clothes). It will not be possible to put the whole science here, but yes I can definitely put some pieces and also indicate as to why Bhagava or Indian clothes ... to give you idea of it...
 
In fact the very arousal of such thoughts (one standard or Bhagwa or white clad people want to look different) shows the degradation and erosion of culture, spirituality, values, inner being and understanding...
 
(02) Those people who think that clothes really don't affect them at all and it is just outer covering as social norm. Yes may be it is social norm, but to say that they don't affect you is silly... absolute ignorance...
 
Let us do two - three experiments...
 
Experiment 1: Wear skin tight jeans and shirt or t-shirt or skin tight dress and start climbing a stair case. What do you notice?
 
Experiment 2: Wear typical Indian Dress Kurta Pyjama or kurta lungi or regional dress or free robe and now climb the staircase. What do you notice? 
 
Experiment 3: Wear skin tight dress and go into a crowded bus or crowded place and tell you friend to sit very near to you or to continually get in body contact. How do you feel?
 
Experiment 4: Now do the third experiment wearing Indian dress and note how do you feel...
 
Do you notice that when you are in skin tight dress you climb stair very quickly, may be 2-3 steps at the same time whereas when you are in Indian dress or free clothes you take one step at a time and even if you want to climb 2-3 steps at the same time there is certain stop or interval between your steps...
 
Do you notice that when you are in skin tight dress you feel uncomfortable when somebody touches you often... or you get bruised... you feel the heat?
 
The staircase effect is as evident as sun... why this happens?
 
So it is very evident that clothes affect not only your body but your psyche... your states of mind... and there are subtle reasons behind every form of cloth...
 
Let us understand some of those reasons now...
 
(03) When people choose clothes what is behind their mind. Or what is the message that their clothes convey? What is the need for designs and colors in the clothes?
 
Have you ever seen the flowers? What are flowers? Flowers are sex or rather reproductive organs of the plants. And that is why they have different vivid colors, designs, scents and shapes. All those characteristics are present in flowers to attract ... for pollination etc...
 
In the same manner you see humans cladding in all these forms of clothes to attract the attention. To look good for oneself is the self-deceptive argument that people give to hide their subliminal 'sex' desires...
 
Why else do you think a woman puts lipstick or makeup... If it was just for looking good for oneself... why doesn't a man put lipstick on his lips (The way our outer cravings; thanks to west; are increasing I will not be surprised if this starts happening) ? After all a man has lips... A lipstick is hidden invitation... so are clothes... and so are perfumes...
 
Hence the more the people are in 'outer cravings' the more vivid their clothes, designs, colors, shapes and sizes (this is the reason now; thanks to west; your clothes don't cover but show off your body) are: the more they will be in makeup's and perfumes and toiletries and so on...
 
And why you don't select the same color and design your friend is wearing? It is simply because you want to look different. Or when you select the same it is because you feel that person looks better... So normally you want to look different but different under accepted 'differential' norms... And hence when somebody just comes totally different... it hurts you... and so you start asking question or start making fun of it without understanding C of 'Clothes'
 
(04) Experiment 5: In hot weather wear suit or Shirt with collar and tie or shirt with collar and observe yourself... go in to sun and observe yourself... switch off the AC and fan and see yourself... keep wearing the thing for the whole day...
 
Experiment 6: Do the same experiment this time wearing your regional or Indian dress or Kurta having round neck... or if you absolutely don't have it... a T-shirt with simple round neck having very thin border... and now do what you are told in Experiment 1... observe yourself...
 
Experiment 7: Take the shirt or suit and wash it yourself the next day... Do you see how much dirt has collected around the neck collar and the cuffs?  and more...
 
Experiment 8: Take the Kurta or T-shirt and wash it yourself the next day... Well can you see much dirt around neck or cuffs? and more...
 
Do you notice you feel more heat on a hot day in shirt ? That is the reason lot of dirt collects around the collar... Not to speak of the hell if you are having tie... This is the reason even though woman have washing machines they have to wash the collar and cuffs before putting them inside the washing machine... creating problems and discomfort for others and yourself...
 
Well you can't make roads Air Conditioned ... can you? You can't fight nature... whatever you may think...
 
Now let us understand the science behind the collar... In cold countries to protect from cold air people designed collars and ties so that cold air can't go in... and similarly the cuff which can be tied around the wrist...
 
Whereas in hot countries ... the condition is just the opposite... hence we need open clothes... this is the reason we have round necks without any collars in Indian dresses... and open cuffs...
 
But the slavery of English people has made people slave of England even today... even though they suffer... they want to wear suits, shirts, ties etc. in hot weather just because we think that is impressive... just because we think that is cultured... how rubbish and low our thinking is ... or rather aren't we slaves even today... This is the reason women (because they never worked much under English) (even working now) still retain their Indian dress... whereas men don't...
 
And then there are fools and idiots who thinks that this is style ... and more idiotic clubs like Rotary or Lions which make it mandatory to wear suits ... and stupid institutes of Management etc... which make it mandatory to wear ties...
 
But one thing we don't notice and that is ... even western people including English people wear T-shirts and shorts (what is wrong in wearing Dhoti or lungi instead? It protects you from harmful radiation and yet gives you enough air) and even go naked in hot weather...
 
No harm in wearing suits, shirts and ties in cold seasons but in hot?...
 
And have we learned anything from science because science tells us obviously that it is good to wear open clothes in hot seasons...
 
(05) This is what MNCs, US and EU want us to do ... so that they can produce one product and sell it to masses and hence continue the slavery...
 
I wonder if those people who fought for freedom of this country would like to do it, knowing that we are enriching those very people against whom those people fought paving way for making other people slaves (IRAQ shines as an example ...). It is time to boycott MNC products or at least tell them that if they want us to wear things they need to mass produce Indian things suitable for our atmosphere... and have Indian standards...
 
And if you want so called 'one' standard for versatile and diverse 'earth'... the day willn't be far when you will become a 'robot' and 'slave' rather than human... unfortunately we are moving towards that direction...
 
Do we have the strength to stand up against this massacre?
 
(06) Not only are Indian designs suitable for outer atmosphere but there is complete science and inner aspect behind their design...
 
Have you noticed that even in cold regions of India we have loose clothes and not tight ones... Why?
 
Taking the results of Experiment 1 to 4 have you noticed that tight clothes make you restless, speedy and belligerent. Even externally science has proved that tight clothes are harmful for your body... There are many researches that indicate and prove this fact... (If you want reference I can give you...)
 
Have you seen traditionally hard workers in India have had tight dresses?
 
Still why do Capitalists go on encouraging those dresses? Simply because the restless you are the more work you will do. They just want to use you... They care a dim about your health or for that matter your being... or progress... this is the reason the rate of young people dying because of heart attacks is increasing...
 
As compared to that when you wear loose, open clothes... not only are you comfortable... but you are relaxed, cool, aware and quite... Loose, open  clothes create a kind of space... a third space... paving way for being witness to what you do... Sakshi Bhava... as a result of which you do work... but at the same time you get a space to  be aware of you... to be witness...
 
And this is the fact even West has been aware of... Traditionally in Christianity people wear robes during ceremonial occasions... or popes, bishops etc. wear white, maroon and yellow robes...
 
But we Indians have been democratic ... we have had envisaged spirituality and higher realization of being for all... This is the reason we have loose clothes for everybody...
 
Do we want to become slaves of few capitalistic interests... and live an all consuming futile life... letting these interests drink our blood... and destroy all possibilities of subtle finer beings or states?
 
But WEST is cold... and they don't know anything except body and hence to show off and attract people to body they have all these types of clothes... and hence they are attached to body... after all a naked body can look unaesthetic on accord of its own inherent nature... but a tight clad half - naked body looks better... paving way for attraction and sex ...
 
Now for the color of the clothes:
 
(07) An one color cloth always wore is sexually inert (neutral) to much attraction ... and hence stops the game of attraction that people play by wearing 'types' of 'colored' 'designed' clothes...
 
It hence gives message of non-attachment or non-investment into you... so that others don't invest in you... it is a subtle karmic message that is being given...
 
There is no harm in 'sex' messages or 'sex' ... but into the karmic attachments to it... this is the reason even in Tantra -- which even though being non-negative or non-discretionary and affirmative to everything-- ... people wear Bhagwa and loose clothes as it gives kind of space to be aware... one color doesn't entice ... instead gives space to observe ...
 
(08) About the specific colors. As I said before it will be impossible to put the full science of clothes here... Every color wore by so called traditional religious Sanyasis have a scientific basis...
 
I will just illustrate the basis of Bhagwa...
 
Experiment 9: Put water in 7 test tubes... Now wrap around the test tubes all seven colored plastic sheets or put water in all 7 color test tubes or bottles... Close the test tubes or bottles properly and put them for 5-7 hours in sunlight... Now open the bottles and there will be seven types of water... drink them to feel the difference...
 
Let me just take the orange or crimson or maroon colored clothes to illustrate...
 
Our Sages, Rishis and fore-fathers have been truly scientists of superior kind, but their science was in accordance with nature. The science as of now has been used against nature for vested interests deriving some benefits and in turn destroying the earth and its people...
 
So what our Sages, Saints and Rishis have done is not non-sense or futile... And to say it or laminate it as just 'want to look different or pious or great...' is nothing but sign of Pure jealousy, inferiority complex, downtrodden fall,  and low IQ...
 
They knew it very well that light belonging to Red band has not only 'good' and healing effect on the body but is absolutely necessary for the growth, reproduction and sustenance of cells...
 
Even science has proved it...
 
If you don't believe me take a look at article of Scientific American at
 
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000227F5-05B1-1E65-A98A809EC5880105
 
Well if two small red LEDs can have curing or healing effects on the eyes of rats what will happen with Red light around you?
 
Now can you get as to why Sanyasi or Saints or Rishis have been wearing Maroon or Orange or Crimson colored clothes?
 
But then Red light is even essential for a person as long as the person is living... so a Saint can't wear Red clothes... if he or she does all the red light will be reflected and he will not have any...
 
So he or she wears crimson or maroon... taking only minimal red light needed and reflecting all other... giving people around him or her... the healing touch... This is the reason you will not find a Jain monk wearing turban or cap (as he or she needs red rays and white reflects all) whereas a Hindu monk wearing crimson turban and cap...
 
So it is no surprise that traditionally Saints, Sages and Rishis have been the healers... as soon as people used to go around an Ashram... they used to get cool, calm, relaxed and healed... and then meeting all people around ... who were reflecting red ... it was quite curing and healing for the disturbed psyche... giving relief to psychosomatic ill ...
 
Alas the science as it exists now doesn't have the fine instruments to analyze the effects on macroscopic scale and that also on individual and collective cells...
 
But some day when it happens ... you will find some MNCs coming out with red light chambers... internal red reflecting clothes... and then the very same people who have never understood anything will flock and pay their last penny to have it... And pity is these same people would have had made fun of people who were trying to give them red light!
 
There is no limit to human foolery especially foolery of brainwashed persons...
 
(09) It was also known to our Saints that Red color is responsible for arousing sex and reproduction... It is no co-incidence that Kamasutra was produced in red hot sun country like India and not cold countries... And it is no backwardness or 'underdevelopment' that two red hot countries of the world China and India have 35% of the population of the world...
 
So crimson or maroon since it reflected red... also calmed sex in the person wearing it... and still gave to the person what was bare necessary for life... Well that is the catch... 'life' propagates through 'sex' and hence whatever is 'life positive' will also be 'sex positive'...
 
(10) But then crimson or Bhagwa were not wore by the person or Sanyasi or Saint or Rishi or Sage as a rule or as tradition. We know very well that all persons are born as Shudras (that is people who want to take and take ...) and then rise to Brahminhood (that is people who only give and give and lives on love)...
 
Hence it was even unimaginable that a person would take Sanyas before reaching brahminhood ( a higher state of consciousness)...
 
And in this state the person is so much coming out of giving that he even gives to the world from what he wears... taking only that which is necessary for living... giving all that he can, not only by his being but by his existence... See the greatness!
 
And hence to give the Sanyasi or Saint or Rishi or Sage choose orange or crimson or Ochre or Maroon cloth ...
 
Hence this is the glimpse of small science behind Clothes and Bhagwa...
 
(11) But then the reverse is also true, your clothes can determine the psyche you have and that is:
 
Clothes don't make for sannyas, but that does not mean that a sannyasin cannot have his own clothes. He can. Clothes are not that important, but they are not that unimportant either.
 
What clothes you wear has meaning. And why you wear clothes has meaning too. Someone wears loose clothes and someone else prefers tight ones. There is not much of a difference between loose and tight clothes, but it does say something about the mental makeup of the people who wear them.
 
Why does someone choose loose garments for himself while another chooses tight ones? If a person is quiet and peaceful he will go in for loose clothing, he won't like tight ones. On the other hand, tight clothing is preferred by one who is disturbed, hot tempered and sexual. Loose clothes are not good for fighting. That is why soldiers all over the world have tight-fitting outfits; they cannot be given loose uniforms. The job of a soldier is such that he needs to be tight and smart. His clothes really should be so tight that he is always ready for action, that he feels he can jump out of his body whenever he is required to do so.

But a monk, a meditator, a sannyasin, needs loose and light clothes.

Orange clothes have their own utility. Not that one cannot be a sannyasin without being in an ochre robe, but the ochre robe does have its due place in sannyas. And those who discovered it, after long search and experiment, had a good many reasons (even more than those listed by me) to commend the ochre or crimson or Maroon color for sannyas.

 

Every color has scientific reasons. But as I said I can't put all here as even this has grown too long... As for me... when you see too much cold outside you may see me in suit... and where I am ... I am next best to naked... the biggest joker around... if you can understand... that is why all this robes and ... Know thyself and you will know me...

So the next time you see a monk of any religion wearing a particular dress even unknowingly... just bow down to him... because unknowingly he is working towards your good... towards the betterment of this earth...

And when you meet some monk or Sanyasi or anybody who knows why he wears those clothes and has wore what he has out of his choice and will to give... bow at least three times to him... and who knows... you may come out...


My Pranam

Devang H.Dattani