Although inert by nature, clothes are very much subject to bioelectric charges because of their proximity to the body. Wearing borrowed garments is like eating the leftover food from someone’s plate. A fable in scriptures narrates a story about the bad consequence of wearing borrowed garments. On account of exchanging her attire with her maid Devyani, the daughter of Guru Brihaspati, was made to suffer the humiliation of mistaken identity of a slave. Sometimes, people ignorantly rejoice in acquiring fashionable but cheaper second-hand clothes. They are hardly aware of the harmful influence of such garments on the physical and mental health of the wearer. Whereas infection or contagion likely to be carried from these garments could be taken care of, if an immoral person had worn these garments, the negative charges therein pollute the wearer’s mind. The wearer remains disturbed throughout life and sometimes even carries the bad influence to the successive life cycles.
Hence, there is no shame in wearing old-fashioned garments or even fewer clothes than necessary, but never second-hand or borrowed clothes. Of course, one may argue that by this logic, the garments being used or discarded by a known, pious person should be pure and beneficial for the heath of anyone. But who could certainly tell that the apparently good person is not secretly immoral and a sufferer from some unknown disease? Besides, self-respect too demands refraining from using borrowed clothes. Why should one eat or wear something discarded by another person, however, exulted the status of that person be?
Garments prepared from silk and wool absorb little bioelectric charge. Sometimes, it becomes necessary to associate with groups of people charged with disturbing emotions because of social compulsions. (e.g., in funeral processions, at cemeteries, hospitals, bars, and casinos). On such occasions, silk and woollen clothes become effective shields.
Exposing clothes to bright sunshine and boiling for a long time usually cleanse the superficial bioelectric pollutants of garments. In the course of daily routine physical contact, too, we acquire negative bioelectric charges from people. Washing the clothes daily in hot water and exposing them to the bright sun can neutralize these charges.
So, let us be careful in wearing others’ clothes, keeping the proximity of negative people, and safeguarding ourselves from the ill effects that may follow.
Akhand Jyoti Magazine 2021 Nov-Dec