re: Sri Ramakrsna' s birth date...

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Ammachi, Ardis Jackson <ardis1@v...> wrote:

> Along these lines. You should see the variety of dates given for Sri

> Ramakrishna's birth! The nuns at Sarada Devi's temple give one

date.

> The Ramakrishna Math gives another. The western scholars give

another.

> And it is not just lunar vs solar calendars. There is also a

separate

> Bengali lunar calendar. We went through this this year when we at

the

> Devi Mandir wanted to celebrate his birthday. We were told that the

> Bengali lunar calendar was the one to use.

>

>Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!

 

Namaskarams...

 

when i went to make Sri Ramakrsna's Chart i basically went to the

double book of His biography, written by His disciple, Swami

Saradananda, who was eventually a president of the Order (i believe)...

it was called "Sri Ramakrsna the Great Master" if i remember right.

 

That gave the birthdate in western calendar years and months (nicely

transposed i guess by the Swamiji)...

 

interestingly enough, that birthdata coincided very nicely and exactly

with the Goravani Jyotish programs version that i have...i think i had

to correct some little thing but otherwise it worked well...at least as

far as ignorant me can tell...in the Saradananda book he said that Sri

Ramakrsna was born just after dawn (or sunrise)...so i looked up WHEN

that was and it seemed to work very well.

 

anyways....who knows...that one might be off too given what Ardis is

saying. However as far as i know Goravani was familiar with the Bengali

calendar too, as he used to be a Vaisnava devotee in some part of Bengal

(a devotee of ISKCON i think)...so his information might very well have

been according to the Bengali calendar...

 

in Amma's Love,

and in Her Service,

as ever,

visvanathan