What is vibhuti & its health benefits?

What is Vibhuti?

Cow dung is used to make pure vibhuti, which is manufactured in gosalas. It's a complicated process that requires a group of committed volunteers. For the production of vibhuti, only cows of the native breed are utilised. The excrement is formed into flat, round cakes with holes in the middle, which are then allowed to dry in the sun.

Why do Indians wear vibhuti?

Vibhuti is historically applied by Hindu worshippers to Shiva as three horizontal lines across the forehead and other regions of the body. Tripundra is the term for vibhuti that has been applied to the forehead up to the ends of both eyebrows.

Unfortunately, it has turned into a shameful industry in many regions where they are just dispensing a particular white rock powder as sacred ash. However, sacred ash can make you much more receptive if it is correctly prepared and you know where and how to apply it. Additionally, the area of your body where you apply it gets more sensitive and moves toward the higher nature. Therefore, you apply sacred ash to specific areas before leaving the house in the morning to attract the divine rather than the demon. You can receive life in different ways and from different levels of who you are depending on which part of you is receptive at that particular time. You must have noticed something since you once saw something and had a specific experience with it. You once witnessed the identical incident, but you had a whole different perspective on it. Your attitude toward life determines how things turn out. Therefore, you want the higher, rather than the lesser, portions of you to be responsive.

Why is vibhuti important?

Additionally, bhasma is created by burning cow dung using numerous ritualistic procedures that are described in the scriptures. Vibhuti/Bhasma represents nothingness, the ego's dissolution, and detachment. The Vibhuti or Bhasma has great spiritual significance; it represents detachment and the desire to connect with the Divine as well as one's own inner divinity.

In order to experience life as love, vibhuti is typically applied at the anahata. It is used at the vishuddhi to give you life as power; power does not just refer to physical or mental strength; there are a variety of ways in which a person can be strong. The goal is to make your life energies extremely potent and strong such that your mere presence may affect the world around you. You don't even need to move or speak to create an impact—just sitting still can accomplish it. An individual can cultivate this kind of power. At the agna, vibhuti is used so that you might receive life as wisdom.

This is a really complex science, but today we just apply it as a stripe on the forehead without comprehending the science behind it. This is ridiculous because the person with one set of stripes and the one with another set of stripes do not agree. Shiva, this god, that god, or nothing at all donated vibhuti. This is not a matter of faith. It has received extensive consideration as a tool for personal development in Indian culture. Sacred ash that has been properly prepared has a unique brilliance. The science supporting this has to be revived and put to use.