Superstition: According to the Hindu custom, people believe that "Brahman's" sitting directly on ground is an unbearable burden to the mother "Earth". So they should always sit on a stool or on something which will keep them lifted. But still why they use those special made wooden stools to sit on.
Science: Basically their are 3 good reason for using special wooden stool by them to sit,
1. Sitting directly on the floor transfer the cold waves from naked floor to the human body and those wave directly put effect on the spinal disc, since for pooja/mantra they sit for a long time period.
2. Again when you sit on ground for along you feel uncomfortable just because of the gravitational effect acting on you. So to neutralize the effect the shape of the stool(Avanipalaga) is given some curve, basically shaped as tortoise.
3. Finally why wood, reason is wood is a bad conductor for transferring heat/cold energy.
So scientific wooden stool save them from spinal problems and also these stools are also made out of specific trees.
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Science: Basically their are 3 good reason for using special wooden stool by them to sit,
1. Sitting directly on the floor transfer the cold waves from naked floor to the human body and those wave directly put effect on the spinal disc, since for pooja/mantra they sit for a long time period.
2. Again when you sit on ground for along you feel uncomfortable just because of the gravitational effect acting on you. So to neutralize the effect the shape of the stool(Avanipalaga) is given some curve, basically shaped as tortoise.
3. Finally why wood, reason is wood is a bad conductor for transferring heat/cold energy.
So scientific wooden stool save them from spinal problems and also these stools are also made out of specific trees.
Stay tuned for some more facts like this......
