After bath, why should a person should dry up his spine first before his face?

Yes.....In olden days it’s been followed that one should dry up his spine before his face. The reason told in intermediate period might be silly. The reason is that there are two personification of a person would be available inside a person i.e. angel and demon. While bathing both of they would be expelled from the body. After drying up there would be heavy competition between the two to occupy the body first. But always the demon would be winning the fight. So it occupies the body which dried up first. So it’s good to dry up the spine first for having the angel in the face. This might sound silly but the scientific reason behind that is the spine is the part of our body which experiences a great temperature change. SO it could not bear the temperature decrease for a long tine which leading to health problems. So it’s good to dry up the spine before the face. This is a must follow fact for those who bath in rivers, ponds, sea or any other large body of water. Also it would not affect the persons bathing in bathroom.

Why bathing on stranger’s pond restricted those days?

During olden days it’s been told that one should not take bath in a stranger’s pond because of the fact that the quarter part of the effect of sins done by the owner of the pond would be suffered by the person who took bath. Sounds silly? Yes it’s not the true reason. In mediocre periods, every habit is followed with a reason but without knowing it. The above fact is followed just to intimidate the strangers to avoid themselves bathing in some stranger’s pond. In the olden days itself it’s been found that many of the diseases are water borne. So to avoid the unwanted diseases it’s been told as a restriction to bath in a stranger’s pond. Another reason is to avoid a stranger disturbing a person by bathing in his pond.

Oil should not be applied after taking a full body bath…..Do you know why?

A full body bath is nothing but taking bath including your head. It’s been told in the manusmriti which is regarded as the rules and regulations of life of the olden days, that one should not apply oil in any part of his/her body after taking a full body bath. If we apply oil on our body, massaging takes place without our knowledge. Even in the olden days people are aware of the fact that the malfunctioning of a part of the body is because of the lack of blood to that part of the body. Moreover sweating after application of oil is harmful to health. The pores on the surface of the human body would be in the closed condition after the application of the oil. Thus it prevents the sweat and dirt inside the body not to get expelled. If the oil application is done after taking full body bath then sweating didn’t take place which makes some waste to lie inside the human body. This is the time to know one more fact. All oils suitable to be applied for hair is suitable for application on human body too. But the converse is not applicable.