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Mud bath on Holi, the festival of colours
At a time when a majority of people participate enthusiastically on the occasion of Holi, the festival of colours and spray themselves with various water colours, a noted Yoga guru Siddharamulu, celebrates with his followers in a different manner. Along with his disciples, he undertakes a special mud bath to keep healthy physically and mentally.
Nizamabad: At a time when a majority of people participate enthusiastically on the occasion of Holi, the festival of colours and spray themselves with various water colours, a noted Yoga guru Siddharamulu, celebrates with his followers in a different manner. Along with his disciples, he undertakes a special mud bath to keep healthy physically and mentally.
Speaking to The Hans India here on Friday, Siddharamulu said that the mud bath was taken with a paste prepared by mixing nearly 169 herbal plants having ayurvdic medicinal values and added that he had been conducting mud baths on the day of Holi festival for the past 24 years. He said that the sand of this mud contains a mixture comprising 50 herbal plants.
Siddharamulu said that the mud is prepared by crushing neem leaves, rose petals, sandalwood paste, multani sand and mixing it with cow’s urine. This mud paste is applied on the entire body. After the body gets dry, sushki yoga is performed and the entire group sits in meditation called dhyana yoga. After taking bath, a moolakayuktha yagnam would be performed to purify the environment, he added.
Siddharamulu said that he along with his followers take mud bath on the third Sunday of every month at Kanchanbagh in Nagaram in the town. However, a special mud bath is taken on the occasion of Holi, he says. After applying mud on his body, they practice yoga after the body gets dry under the hot Sun.
Listing out the benefits of the mud bath, Siddharamulu said that the mud bath give relief from various types of skin diseases, allergies, nervous weaknesses and body pains. The mud bath also cures insomnia, depression and mental stress and laziness.
Ravana Brahma, another yoga teacher said that the mud bath has tremendous healthy benefits. He said that after taking the mud bath, they eat leafy vegetables, vegetables, dry fruits and jaggery. Siddharamulu says that the mud bath is taken in lush greeneries under sylvan settings.
He said that the mud bath would be taken at the marwadi swimming pool near Pujari nagar at Nagaram from 8 AM on Sunday and urged the people to utilise the opportunity and derive benefits from it.
