Yesterday I had written about how to read a Panchāngam, or Hindu calendar. Today, we look at a few more interesting concepts. While we normally follow the Gregorian calendar in our daily lives, the Panchāngam holds a special significance. The Gregorian is quite arbitrary, with months having 30 or 31 days with no apparent logic, …
Reading a Hindu calendar can be complex, especially for beginners. So here is a quick guide, just for you! Start with a Panchāngam – Drink Panchang is a good option. It has an app and a website – so take your pick. Let’s assume that you are using the app. Ensure that the location is …
A deviation today, from the usual Navratri talk. I have been watching various “village cooking” channels over the past few months. First, there was one from Tamil Nadu – a grandpa with his grandsons – an energetic take on cooking a monstrous amount of food and then distributing it to the needy. Entertaining, and I’ve …
Fasting without feeding your spirituality is starvation. All it does is make you feel hungry the whole day and crave for food, when you should be working on developing your spiritual capabilities instead. Navratri fasts are a bit different from other fasts. Depending on where you come from in India, the rules vary. Some days …
Number nine (9) is the most intriguing digit of all the numbers. It is an absolute number which when multiplied by any number always reproduces itself; the sum of digits in the product will always be nine. In Sanskrit, nine is known as Nava; and Navathi means ninety; Navaka means group of nine, fresh, new, …
Friday, April 1, 2022 Sunrise: 06:15 AMSunset: 06:39 PM Tithi: Amavasya upto 10:23 AMNakshatra: Uttara Bhadrapada upto 09:10 AMYoga: Brahma upto 08:07 AMKarana: Nagava upto 10:23 AMKarana: Kinstughna upto 10:21 PMPaksha: Krishna Paksha Weekday: ShukrawaraAmanta Month: PhalgunaPurnimanta Month: ChaitraMoonsign: MeenaSunsign: Meena Shaka Samvat: 1943 PlavaVikram Samvat: 2079 RakshasaGujarati Samvat: 2078 Pramadi Twice in a year, followers of Sanatana Dharma observe unique festivities in the name of the great Mother of the universe, these two occasions of worship being called Vasanta Navaratri and Sharada Navaratri. Tomorrow is the first …
I started watching Sharmaji Namkeen today. Rishi Kapoor’s last movie, one that he couldn’t complete, and so Paresh Rawal stepped in to make what should be a rare occurrence in cinema – two actors playing the same character in the same movie. The story largely follows what happens to Sharmaji after he retires – a …
Is attachment good? By attachment, I mean attachment to anything – people, joys, pleasures, money, materialism, even attachment to spirituality… Well, the rest you may understand, but isn’t attachment to spirituality a good thing? Indian philosophy believes in renunciation as a path to liberation. Moksha is the goal, not heaven. Freeing oneself of the bondage …
Something that happened today reminded of something that I had written around a couple of years back. Reproduced here below. A few years back, I met an old friend. Actually, we had studied in college together. We hadn’t kept in touch, and so we spoke for quite a while. He had recently changed jobs, and …
Ok. The slap. By the way, for a star that has made quite a few action movies, when it came to it, he wasn’t able to deliver a very convincing slap. I mean, its Will Smith – Man in Black! Surely he could manage something that would have sent the recipient sprawling onto the floor. …
