Adhikamas and Bhagavan

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Below is the message from Shree Jauvana (writer,

musician, filmmaker, disciple of A.C. Bhaktivedanta

Swami Prabhupada, email: jauvana, website:

www.jauvana.com) about the Adhik mas.

 

I think this additional month is not counted in

Kerala and is news to me. Hence this sharing of info.

 

Regards

 

Balagopal

 

NARAYANA NARAYANA NARAYANA

 

 

Thursday, 14 June 2007

Purushottama

Today is the final day of the Purushottama-adhika

month in the vaisnava calendar. Purushottama mas is a

special month that adjusts the lunar calendar by

adding an extra month after every 33 months. It began

on the new moon in mid-May, and will end today, the

Caturdasi, or 14th day after the full moon. Tomorrow

the new moon brings back the continuation of Trivikram

mas, the month that began on 3rd May and was

interrupted for this special month. The next

Purushottama mas will be in early 2010.

 

The significance of Purushottama mas is that it

directly represents Bhagavan Sri Krishna in the

calendar. It is named after Purushottama, the Supreme

Person, and offers His devotees opportunities for

spiritual advancement.

 

As a nice way to end this month, i am posting the last

four verses from Chapter 15, Bhagavad-gita, which is

titled, Purushottama Yoga, or " The Yoga of the Supreme

Person. " These verses are said to contain the

confidential purport of the entire Vedas.

 

Verse translations are from the Original

Collier-Macmillan Edition of Bhagavad-Gita As It Is,

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Prabhupada.

 

(This original, unedited edition of Bhagavad-gita As

It Is is now available online, free, at the link

published below the verses.)

 

" Besides these two, there is the greatest living

personality, the Lord Himself, who has entered into

these worlds and is maintaining it. (15.17)

 

" Because I am transcendental, beyond both fallible and

infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am

celebrated both in the world and in the Vedas as that

Supreme Person (Purushottama). ( 15.18)

 

" Whoever knows Me as the Supreme Personality of

Godhead (Purushottama), without doubting, is to be

understood as the knower of everything, and he

therefore engages himself in full devotional service,

O son of Bharata. ( 15.19)

 

" This is the most confidential part of the Vedic

sciptures, O sinless one, and it is disclosed now by

Me. Whoever understands this will become wise, and his

endeavors will know perfection. " (15.20)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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