Is that important to take a bath before praying?

I think it is different from people to people and culture to culture. I think some people believes that they should take bath before praying and do take it and some people does not take bath before praying.

No it is not. We can read about this if we want to. Jesus never bathed before praying - in fact he very rarely bathed at all - his disciples also. Do you remember how the Pharisees scolded his disciples for not washing before they ate? The Pharisees had so many of their man-made rules that they observed over any sincere love for God. Jesus condemned these practices of course. Do you think Jesus wouldn't have taken a bath first if there were thought to be any benefit in doing so at all? We can read that his garments, unwashed for a long time, were as white as snow (or shorn wool or whatever), after Jesus had finished praying. You may of course, do as you wish. Until you pray like Jesus practiced & taught, it won't matter how many baths you take, even though you feel some benefit, you won't accomplish much.

The apostle Paul told us to pray without ceasing. We'd spend our lives in the bathroom if we bathed before every prayer. Besides, it's not the outside that matters but the inside.

Thanks for sharing When i get up from bed, i mean open eyes i look at my palm because all our gods/goddesses are present there, next i go to toilet and only after bath i go to our puja room and do worship and pray reciter mantra etc Again in the evening i bath at 7pm, this time i light incense sticks in front of god photo in my room and recite Hanuman chalissa etc I think after bath we feel kind of purity of body and soul.

Besides using water in religious rituals, water is very important in all religions. Think of where these religions started; the desert, the stones, the rocks, the scarcity of water. It is one thing we cannot do without - and as far as cleanliness, it is next to godliness. Almost all religions have water rituals. The Muslims we know pray five times a day and they have to wash their face, rinse their mouth, use water up to the elbows and the feet. To answer your question, it is not necessary to take a bath every day, but there are prayers to be said and which cannot be done without cleaning themselves first, and rinsing their mouth. This kind of prayer requires regularity and soon you will see your life become much clearer to you and your relationship with God, better.

Hi, I don't think that we should pray God after the bath only. It's true that we feel fresh and we should be clean and pure while praying. I take bath once in the morning and I pray God at anytime. The feeling and faith is important and the number of prayer is not important. Or mind and souls should be clear and pure for praying God.

I think you are making prayer more complicated than it is. Prayer can be as simple as a thought. In reality, bathing has nothing to do with prayer. On the other hand, it is important to be clean. I hope everyone out there bathes every day.

It is a sick joke to suggest that bathing in water, however often we do it, can ever make us clean enough to approach the true God. This can only be achieved by faith in the eternal Son of God, whose blood was shed on the cross for our cleansing.

You can pray while in the bathroom too.

I am so dry that even one bath a day would turn me into a prune. If you are going to have a season of pray for a special request then it might be a good gesture. Those who stop and pray 5 times a day would find that they might stop praying if they felt they needed to take a bath first.