Auspicious Muhurta for worshipping

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> what chapter of HBV verse 180?

> TridaNDi BhikSu, Bhakti Visrambha MAdhava

> maybe the calendar devotees should add mention of this tithi?

 

If the official ISKCON calendar mentions every tithi described in any

currently circulating editions of any purana we would have a very

complicated calendar indeed! We like to stick with just the events that

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur thought fit to include in his

calendar, plus newer ones relevant to ISKCON. Others are more than welcome

to provide these kinds of services to the devotees. I am sure Mercury

transit information is readily available on the web. Tithi information is

already available with VCal.

 

Your servant, Bhaktarupa Das

 

PS. Aren't all these kinds of pious benefits already included in nam

sankirtan?

 

> > As stated in Hari Bhakti Vilasa by Sanatana Goswami: Text 180

> >

> > kim ca skande vasistha-mandhatr-samvade

> >

> > sukla-pakse yada rajan, trtiya budha-samyuta

> > sravanena maha-bhaga, tulasi cati-punyada. iti.

> >

> > kim- ca-furthermore; skande vasistha-mandhatr"-samvade-in the

> > Skanda

> > Purana, Vasistha Muni tells King Mandhata; sukla-pakse-on the sukla

> > paksa; yada-when; rajan-O king; trtiya-third; budha-samyuta-with

> > mercury; sravanena-with Sravana; maha-bhaga-O very fortunate one;

> > tulasi-Tulasi; ca-an; ati--punyada-giving great piety; iti-thus.

> >

> > In the Skanda Purana, Vasistha Muni tells King Mandhata:

> >

> > "O very fortunate king, Tulasi-devi gives great pious benefits to anyone

> > who worships her on a third tithi of the sukla-paksa when Mercury is

> > conjoined with the star Sravana."