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The proverb outlines the importance of the habit of cleanliness in our life. Cleanliness is an essentials virtue and next to godliness.
Cleanliness means being physically clean and tidy. Godliness means being morally good. The words ‘next to’ can be taken to mean ‘second best after’. So, if we are not morally perfect, at least we can take care to look presentable.
The proverb highlights two things:
The most important activity of human life is worshiping God.
The next important thing is cleanliness, i.e., the state of being clean.
Cleanliness and godliness are about recognizing your inherent value as a human being. Cleanliness is also regarded as a sign of spiritual growth and purity.
Keeping everything clean and tidy is a way of showing that you care about yourself, other people and your surroundings. It is a good habit to keep our surroundings and ourselves clean and tidy. Some nations attach the utmost importance to cleanliness.
Cleanliness of body leads to purity of mind, which elevates our moral and spiritual life, and at last brings us nearer to God.
Preservation of heath: Cleanliness ensures good health. If the body is regularly washed, dirt cannot choke the pores of the skin. This removes dirt through perspiration. On the other hand, if the pores are choked up, the impurities of the body cannot come out, and various diseases may follow.
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Cleanliness is next to godliness is a most common and famous proverb which means cleanliness is everything for the goodness. People should keep themselves clean and bright to maintain their healthy life style and healthy living. Cleanliness is way to godliness and godliness is way to balance mind, soul and body. Being clean is the mean to keep ourselves physically and mentally clean. Keeping our body clean, tidy and well dressed makes us smart enough to get confidence and positive thoughts. Clean habits with nice dress sense creates good impression on others and good reputation in the society because cleanliness reflects a clean character of the person.
It is considered that the people maintaining cleanliness and develop the habit of dressing smartly, become clean character and generally pious and god-fearing. Such people have certain morals in their life and have clean heart by being godly. We can say that godliness starts with clean heart and clean heart can be of person with good character. This is the reason why priests of any religion tell to be clean from body and mind before worship. Cleanliness is the first and foremost thing to be near to the god.
On the other hand, being clean strengthens our immunity system and secures us from many chronic and acute diseases. However, clean people may catch diseases from dirty people but they are strong enough to tackle small problems. They can manage things in their surroundings related to the cleanliness including instructing poor and dirty people about cleanliness.
People maintaining their proper cleanliness feel shame in meeting with the people having dirty face, hands, soiled clothes and bad smelling clothes because they feel their insult while meeting with such type of people. Cleanliness of body is really very necessary for the good physical health. On the other hand, physical cleanliness gives inner cleanliness and keeps heart and mind clean. Cleanliness of mind keeps us mentally healthy and prevents from the psychological problems. So, the complete cleanliness keeps away from dirt and diseases as both go together, where there is dirt there is diseases.
Disease causing germs breed and grow very rapidly in the dirt which causes infection or various epidemic diseases such as cholera. So, in order to be healthy, happy and a peaceful life we all should practice clean habits in every aspect of life because dirt symbolizes moral evil whereas cleanliness symbolizes moral purity.
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