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One should not go to the guru without becoming purified
in the following circumstances:
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A woman in monthly period should not go for
three days.
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One should not go during the period' ‘of ‘sutak’.
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If one has gone to the toilet, one should not
go without taking a bath.
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After delivery, a woman should not go for 40
days.
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After touching a dead body or attending funeral,
one should go only after becoming purified. If it has happened
during the day time, one is impure until the stars appear a night
and if is night time one is impure until sunrise.
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It is compulsory for vaishnavas to wear a tulsi mala
at all times. In case the thread of tulsi mala breaks, one should
not take food or water until wearing another one. The reason for this
given in the scriptures called 'Padma Purana where it is stated that
for a vaishnav, food taken without wearing a tulsi mala is comparable
to excrement, water taken is comparable to urine and other liquids
taken are comparable to blood. If a vaishnav is without a tulsi mala
even for a moment, he becomes an enemy of Vishnu and therefore one
should wear it at all times.
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One can not do Prabhu's seva without wearing a tulsi
mala. It is compulsory for every member of the family participating
in seva to wear a tulsi mala.
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Women and girls in monthly period must bathe after
the elapse of three nights, wash their hairs with soap, shampoo or
herbal shampoo removing all the oil, remove the old tulsi mala and
wear a new one before returning to seva One cannot do seva wearing
the old tulsi mala.
One should wear a new tulsi mala after taking a bath under the following
circumstances:
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when the period of sutak or vruddhi is over.
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when the impure period after delivery he passed
and one has bathed.
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if one has touched a person in sutak.
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if one has touched a dead body.
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if one has gone to the place of burning dead bodies.
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if one has touched a female in monthly period.
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if one has touched a woman who has given delivery
within 20 days or a new born infant upto 10 days.
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after the passing of the impure period following
a solar or lunar eclipse. The old tulsi mala should be dropped in
a natural body of water viz lake, pond, river, ocean etc. or under
a tree.
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A married woman who is performing seva or going for
Thakurji's darshan, should have a bindi on her forehead and should
wear bangles. Going in Thakurji's presence without wearing the signs
of marriage is an offence.
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Male performing seva or going for Thakurji's darshan
one must have a tilak on ones forehead. A person who always wears
a tilak will not have to face any of the obstacles which culminate
into death because Prabhu is the supreme one. In wearing a tilak,
one purifies himself as well as others. In the scripture describing
inauspicious conditions, it is stated that it is inauspicious for
a man to leave his home without a tilak.
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A tilak should be made with kumkum or kesar and not
with sadal paste, sindur etc. A tilak is the sign of Prabhu's good
fortune.
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One should not wear a tilak during the period of
sutak. One may apply tilak after becoming purified from sutak. (During
sutak tilak is to be applied with charanamrit). During the period
of sutak, prasad may not be taken.
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Property belonging to the Government bears ¬the official
markings and becomes immediately recognisable as belonging to the
Government Like wise, Vaishnavs are dedicated to Prabhu lotus feet
and by wearing Prabhu's sign on the forehead, one displays that one
has surrendered his atma, body, life force, sense organs, heart etc...
to Prabhu. When one looks in the mirror and sees the tilak on the
forehead, he would remember that all things which are surrendered
belong to Prabhu. By having that bhava, one can attain all the qualities
of a 'bhagavadiya’.
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