Guest guest Posted November 21, 2009 Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 Why should birthday be celebrated as per Hindu lunar calendar? Benefits of celebrating a birthday as per the Hindu lunar calendar (‘tithi’) as against the date of birth as per the Western calendar >> Read Deference Celebrating birthday as per Science of Spirituality 1. Spiritual meaning 2. History and importance of a birthday celebration 2.1 Birthday of an embodied soul in the ‘Satyayug’ 2.2 Birthday of an individual in the Treta and Dvaparyugs 3. Importance of celebrating the birthday as per the Hindu lunar calendar 4. Method of birthday celebration 4.1 Method 1 4.2 Method 2 5. Science behind the ritual of birthday celebration 5.1 Three rites in birthday celebration and the science behind them 5.2 Wearing new clothes after the bath with oil massage is like wearing an armour of chaitanya 6. Spiritual experiences during the celebration of a birthday 7. Acts forbidden on a birthday and the science behind it 8. Subtle analysis of a birthday celebrated in western style 8.1 Subtle analysis 8.2 Distress experienced by the invitees 9. A saint’s birthday 10. The birthday celebration of children, contemporaries, the aged and saints Read More information : Birthday Also see Latest Videos : http://www.hindujagruti.org/videos/ Thanks & Regards, Sudhir Srinivasan B.Arch, Dip.ID, Dip.CAD, Dip.PM, AIIA, IIID, ARIAI |Architect| Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 21, 2009 Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 i think hindus should follow te christians like distributon of medicines as christs prasad/shawlas as a gift, instead of preaching the significances of rituals in these materialistic and hard times. Sriram Medepalli --- On Sat, 21/11/09, Sudhir-Architect <ar_sudhirkumar wrote: Why should birthday be celebrated as per Hindu lunar calendar? Benefits of celebrating a birthday as per the Hindu lunar calendar (‘tithi’) as against the date of birth as per the Western calendar >> Read Deference Celebrating birthday as per Science of Spirituality 1. Spiritual meaning 2. History and importance of a birthday celebration 2.1 Birthday of an embodied soul in the ‘Satyayug’ 2.2 Birthday of an individual in the Treta and Dvaparyugs 3. Importance of celebrating the birthday as per the Hindu lunar calendar 4. Method of birthday celebration 4.1 Method 1 4.2 Method 2 5. Science behind the ritual of birthday celebration 5.1 Three rites in birthday celebration and the science behind them 5.2 Wearing new clothes after the bath with oil massage is like wearing an armour of chaitanya 6. Spiritual experiences during the celebration of a birthday 7. Acts forbidden on a birthday and the science behind it 8. Subtle analysis of a birthday celebrated in western style 8.1 Subtle analysis 8.2 Distress experienced by the invitees 9. A saint’s birthday 10. The birthday celebration of children, contemporaries, the aged and saints Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 I am trying to understand... why the need to celebrate birthday even? Its a form of attachement... And you want to suggest we all become like the Christians.. buying gifts... what are we to be, materialistic? Mora attachment... why are you corrupting yourself to such practices may I ask? When you sit and do your Sadhana, you are dead... you cease to exist. We die and reborn. Everyday you celebrate your birth and your death. , sriram medepalli <dikki52 wrote: > > i think hindus should follow te christians like distributon of medicines as christs prasad/shawlas as a gift, instead of preaching the significances of rituals in these materialistic and hard times. > > > Sriram Medepalli > > --- On Sat, 21/11/09, Sudhir-Architect <ar_sudhirkumar wrote: > > > > Why should birthday be celebrated as per Hindu lunar calendar? > > > Benefits of celebrating a birthday as per the Hindu lunar calendar (‘tithi’) > > as against the date of birth as per the Western calendar >> Read Deference > > Celebrating birthday as per Science of Spirituality > > 1. Spiritual meaning > > 2. History and importance of a birthday celebration > > 2.1 Birthday of an embodied soul in the ‘Satyayug’ > > 2.2 Birthday of an individual in the Treta and Dvaparyugs > > 3. Importance of celebrating the birthday as per the Hindu lunar calendar > > 4. Method of birthday celebration > > 4.1 Method 1 > > 4.2 Method 2 > > > 5. Science behind the ritual of birthday celebration > > 5.1 Three rites in birthday celebration and the science behind them > > 5.2 Wearing new clothes after the bath with oil massage is like wearing an armour of chaitanya > > 6. Spiritual experiences during the celebration of a birthday > > 7. Acts forbidden on a birthday and the science behind it > > 8. Subtle analysis of a birthday celebrated in western style > > 8.1 Subtle analysis > > 8.2 Distress experienced by the invitees > > 9. A saint’s birthday > > 10. The birthday celebration of children, contemporaries, the aged and saints > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 I always see celebrating a birthday more as a rite of passage to another year of marking one's birth and one's death. I never thought of formalizing it into a religious thing, though. I do not recall Christianity formalizing the celebration of birthdays, unless I am missing something here. It always struck me as a cultural thing to celebrate birthdays. People in India may do it one way and people in the United States may do it another. Religion and culture go hand in hand, sure, but...I never thought of birthdays as a religious or spiritual thing. Namaste. Sincerely, Arya/Christina On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:46 AM, NMadasamy <nora wrote: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 HINDU DHARMA is unfortunately on its ebb. It is better we add materialism and re kindle it. I have recently retired . Earlier I never used to listen any music but now i found a good site Hummaas.com which has wealth house of songs. Also it indicates how many listeners are listening. It is surprising that people outside the country prefer listening to devotional music than people in the country. Further our scriptures are in a language though great is not understood by many .. The translations do help but the inner feeling remains that sanskrit is ideal. , " NMadasamy " <nora wrote: > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2009 Report Share Posted November 23, 2009 If our routine is always into spirituality, as we don't divide things into sacred and non sacred, everything being sacred, why not birthday celebration. And about christianity I think our friend was trying to say that it should be better to do simple celebrations and not fall in the confusion of dogma or much spiritual technique for it would cover the devotional aspect... Everybody says we must be restricted to the essence in this Yug. Sure distribution of gifts per se is not the essential, but it can become a good simple ritual... We were all talking about astrology and it is worthy to remember that jyotish is very practical, with sadhanas for the grahas and aspects and it has a complete system of spiritual practice on it, something we don't see anymore in western astrology... just a curiosity: it seams western birthday cakes comes from lunar cakes offered to goddess Diana in roman times on the full moons (like a birthday party to that goddess)... Astrological greek-roman practice? Namaste On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Amaya Kalarathri < theilluminatedcelestial wrote: > > I always see celebrating a birthday more as a rite of passage to another > year of marking one's birth and one's death. I never thought of formalizing > it into a religious thing, though. I do not recall Christianity formalizing > the celebration of birthdays, [....] > Arya/Christina > > -- Rafael Espadine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 , Rafael Espadine <espadine wrote: Sure > distribution of gifts per se is not the essential, but it can become a good > simple ritual... Its this simple ritual that we see as harmless becomes our trap. Its like a traveller, walking along the road... as he's walking along he seeings beautiful pebbles... yeah.. look pretty why not, what harm it may bring....it may not serve any purpose at all and it's not that heavy at all... and so it goes. As you go along you gradually collect one after another... then you forget. This whole act of collecting pebbles becomes a routine a ritual and somewhere along the road you began to get tired and feel heavy... and you wonder why are your journey taking such a long time and why are you feeling so tired all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 it could happen sure, but you are being a little pessimistic... I said simple ritual can be something good and not that necessarily it will be it depends on your action and comprehension and I think we are agreeing with that: if not necessary, and not meaningful, there is no reason to collect the pebbles. thanks friend! On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:49 AM, NMadasamy <nora wrote: > > Rafael Espadine <espadine wrote: > Sure > > distribution of gifts per se is not the essential, but it can become a > good > > simple ritual... Nora wrote:> > Its this simple ritual that we see as harmless becomes our trap. > > Its like a traveller, walking along the road... as he's walking along he > seeings beautiful pebbles... yeah.. look pretty why not, what harm it may > bring....it may not serve any purpose at all and it's not that heavy at > all... and so it goes. As you go along you gradually collect one after > another... then you forget. This whole act of collecting pebbles becomes a > routine a ritual and somewhere along the road you began to get tired and > feel heavy... and you wonder why are your journey taking such a long time > and why are you feeling so tired all the time. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 I think it all comes down to having a sense of moderation, when one thinks about it. I think in a book, there was a discussion about how a bowl of ice cream is perfectly fine in one sitting, but eating the entire thing would be too much. Figuratively speaking, the latter case is not something everyone wants to get into a habit of doing if not for the fact it gets rather unhealthy (and expensive!). I think the same could be said about enjoying things - including cultural rituals that mark as rites of passages into something. A birthday is enjoyable and does mark a rite of passage into another year, but at the same time, not everyone needs to do something like... get a gas-guzzling 30,000 American dollars car for someone. Sad to say, one of my more distant relatives had a boyfriend who did just that for her. It makes me sad to see things like that when he could have done something like get a cheaper car that spent less gas, or something even more cheaper than that. I am still trying to understand this more, really. My relatives say it is a norm for the culture to flaunt wealth, even if you may not have any wealth to flaunt. What is considered moderation could be different for various people. I was raised by a mother who many would consider " stingy " in the way she spent money. I cannot even match to her standards of spending (or lack thereof). But there might be someone out there who would consider her not stingy enough. I am not sure how significant saying all of this is to anyone, but that is how it seems to me with my limited wisdom. Namaste. Sincerely, Arya/Christina On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:49 PM, NMadasamy <nora wrote: > > <%40>, > Rafael Espadine <espadine wrote: > Sure > > distribution of gifts per se is not the essential, but it can become a > good > > simple ritual... > > Its this simple ritual that we see as harmless becomes our trap. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 , Rafael Espadine <espadine wrote: > > it could happen sure, but you are being a little pessimistic... I said > simple ritual can be something good and not that necessarily it will be > > it depends on your action and comprehension and I think we are agreeing with > that: if not necessary, and not meaningful, there is no reason to collect > the pebbles. > > thanks friend! > I'm not being pessimistic nor optimistic. These words does not exist in my dictionary. I am being me. I am merely voicing my opinion ... it may sound ridiculous for many, I care not. I read what comes to this group and I say what comes to my mind... and I move on. This topic as far as I'm concern is close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 Dear beloved Sakta Bandhus, The traditional way of celebrating a birth day is by performing Ayush Homam. If that's not possible, one can chant Maha Mrityumjaya mantra 108 times or in multiples of 11, in an empty stomach. Best Regards, Hari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 Yes Hari and Mira. Powerful insights and kind language when showing your points of view, thanks for that. Thats why we are in a discussion group. regards On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Mira Kali <blissbody1008 wrote: > > > I was told years ago that it is good to meditate on your birthday, at the > same time you were born. Other than that, I do not have any particular > customs. Last year for my birthday I invited friends to chant Lalita > Sahasranama together by a river and asked them to make a donation to charity > instead of bringing gifts. I don't feel attached to anything particular > happening that day, nor a necessity to reject celebrating it either. Just > like any other day, it is both completely special, and completely ordinary. > I just stay open and do whatever seems appropriate. > > Anyway, happy birthday! > In Her, Mira -- Rafael Espadine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 Sanatan Dharam doesnt codify these things...Unlike some other religions...do what u want On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Rafael Espadine <espadine wrote: > Yes Hari and Mira. > > Powerful insights and kind language when showing your points of view, > thanks > for that. Thats why we are in a discussion group. > > regards > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Mira Kali <blissbody1008<blissbody1008%40>> > wrote: > > > > I was told years ago that it is good to meditate on your birthday, at the > > same time you were born. Other than that, I do not have any particular > > customs. [....] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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