Guruwaar

[Guest guest]

Greetings in Amma, dear Dilip.

 

In one of your earlier posts, you refer to Guruwaar "Thursday". Could you

explain a little more about this to this ignorant daughter? Is it always on

Thursday or does it fall on different days, and if so, what distinguishes

it?

 

Om Amriteshvaryai Namah.

 

premarupa

[Guest guest]

Premarupa,

 

Guruwaar is the hindi name for thursday "day of the guru - Jupiter".

 

Sunday(Sun) Raviwaar Day of the Ravi(Sun)

Monday(Moon) Somwaar Day of the Soma(another name for Moon)

Tuesday(Mars) Mangalwaar Day of the Mangal(Mars)

Wednesday(Mercury) Budhawaar Day of the Budha(Mercury)

Thursday(Jupiter) Guruwaar Day of the Guru(Jupiter)

Friday(venus) Shukrawaar Day of the Shukra(Venus)

Saturday(Saturn) Saniwaar Day of the Sani(Saturn)

 

These planets influence the days. Like on Sunday people worship,

Monday people are gloomy (Moon - emotions) at work, Friday every body

is ready to party(Venus - at least in the West), though Friday is

also called Lakshmiwaar in India - Day of the Lakshmi(Wealth) still

material(Venus)

 

Guruwaar - Thursday, Since Jupiter stands for higher wisom and Guru,

we worship Guru on Thursdays

 

 

 

 

 

Ammachi , Kenna <ammaskenna@h...> wrote:

> Greetings in Amma, dear Dilip.

>

> In one of your earlier posts, you refer to Guruwaar "Thursday".

Could you

> explain a little more about this to this ignorant daughter? Is it

always on

> Thursday or does it fall on different days, and if so, what

distinguishes

> it?

>

> Om Amriteshvaryai Namah.

>

> premarupa

[Guest guest]

Om Amriteshwariye namah,

 

Normally in Hindu religion different days are related to different planets

and eventually different forms of Gods:

 

Raviwaar = Sunday = Ravi/Surya (Sun) => Vishnu

Somwaar = Monday = Soma/Chandra (Moon) => Shiva

Mangalwaar = Tuesday = Mangal/Bhaum (Mars) => Hanuman/Durga

Budhwaar = Wednesday = Budh (Mercury) => God???

Guruwaar = Thursday = Guru/Bhrahaspati (Jupiter) => Eternal Guru in Everyone

Shukrawaar = Friday = Shukra (Venus) => Devi

Shaniwaar = Saturday = Shani (Saturn) => Hanuman (Saturn's guru Shiva also)

 

[Note:

Rahu (Node) and Ketu (Tail) are not in this list because they are mere

shadows. Besides these planets Pluto, Uranus and Neptune maps with Mrityu

(Death), Vayu (Wind) and Varun (Water). Out of these Rahu and Ketu have more

influence on us than others.]

 

Guru, Sun and Moon are considered to be Divine and mostly associated with

Vishnu and Shiva in Purush-male form - I don't know the detail why Brahma is

not represented in any way. Devi / Mother Nature -refer Srimad Bhagavatam-

is mother as well as consort of various Gods in some form or other. That's

the Shakti! So Guru is that both male-female "Shiva-shakti" united!!

]

 

All those Hindi names of days have been derived from Sanskrit words. Most of

the english names of the days have also gone thru several changes over

centuries and most of them were also derived from Sanskrit names of Planets

or Gods or energies representing them. I remember reading an article about

all the historical details long time back, if I see it again I'll publish it

here.

 

Thursday always comes on the same day of week and it's always called

Guruwaar in Hindi.

 

Namah Shivaye,

 

for you Amma,

"Ekanath"

 

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:40:09 -0600, Ammachi wrote:

 

> Greetings in Amma, dear Dilip.

>

> In one of your earlier posts, you refer to Guruwaar "Thursday". Could you

> explain a little more about this to this ignorant daughter? Is it always

on

> Thursday or does it fall on different days, and if so, what distinguishes

> it?

>

> Om Amriteshvaryai Namah.

>

> premarupa

>

>

> Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha!

>

> Ammachi-

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

 

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