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Good day Dear Brothers and Sisters,Its Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

 

 

 

 

Today, 14th April 2010 is a big day in the Hindu Calender

as well as the Indian context ..

14th April 2010 is Baisakhi and also being the New Moon

Day (Amavas in Hindi) making it the last Shahi Snan

 

of the Kumbh Mela in 2010 ...

 

 

 

Held every 12 years when Jupiter enters the sign of Aquarius,

it is marked by largescale travelling to Banaras and Allahabad

to bathe in the Sangam for washing ones sins metaphorically

speaking (well, actually depends upon your faith more), but this time around, tomorow's date also coincides with the beginning of Adhik mass or the 13th month, an extra lunar one which is added every three years to

bring the Lunar year in harmony with the Solar year

...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This extra month, known as Adhik Maas, Malmaas, or

Purushottam maas is one which is considered highly fruitful

and beneficial for spiritual pursuits and contemplation

on the Divine ... Coinciding with the Kumbh festival,

it has acquired even more significance ...

 

Astrologically, the alignment of various other auspicious

planetary alignment is occuring after 3333 years ...

 

Any advice ???

 

Bath in the Ganges or add some Ganga Jal to your water tub

and invoking the Mothers blessings, ask her to bless you ..

Make donations, charity without any expectation of

material benefits ... Read Divine scripture and contemplate

over it ... Its the best time to forge your connection

with the Divine. ... something we seem to endlesly putting

off on some practical pretext or the other ....

 

Baisakhi is another occasion today for Punjabis as they

get ready to harvest the yield from the land and celebrate

the bounty as a New Year ... It was also on this day that

Guru Gobind Singh founded the Khalsa by the sacrifice

of the Panj Pyaares in Patna ....

 

 

 

 

 

Vaisakhi is an annual celebration which originated in April of 1699.

Vaisakhi commemorates the anniversary of when Guru Gobind

Singh formalized membership into the Sikh religion with initiation

 

rites. The Guru called for volunteers willing to give their heads.

The five who came forward are known as the Panj Para or five

beloved ones. The Panj pyara conduct the initiation ceremony

known as Amritsanchar. Initiates drink Amrit, an immortalizing

nectar.

 

Interestingly, baisakhi is the solar astrological date on which

the planetary Ruler, Sun, enters the zodiac sign of Aries

by Indian astrological calculations and finds itself exalted ...

 

Any wonder the Guru chose this particular date to lay the

foundation of the Khalsa Singhs

 

One of the chief architect's of the Indian Constitution,

Dr. Ambedkar's birth celebrations also fall on 14th April

further adding to the Day's significance ...

 

 

 

To the conscientious and hardworking person, everyday

is an opportunity to start anew ... A significance such as

the above is an opportunity however to intensify efforts

if one had fallen into a rut ...

 

All festivals bring with them a message without which they

degrade into a mindless dead habit ... The difference in

observing something with feeling and just going through

the motion is the difference between living and existing

 

 

 

 

 

Sunrise or Sunset ??

 

 

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