Guest guest Posted February 13, 2008 Report Share Posted February 13, 2008 " Worship of Sun is auspicious during the entire month of `Magha' as we believe it helps run good health. On the Rathasapthami dayRatha Saptami is a hindu festival that comes on the seventh day of the bright half of the Magh month. The Sun is worshipped on this day. The sun is imagined to be a chariot drawn by seven horses, which represent the seven colours of the rainbow. The charioteer, Arun, has his feet deformed. Arun means the dawn. On this day some people go to take bath in the river before dawn carrying a lamp on their head. Then in the courtyard in front of the house the sun is worshipped. A picture of the chariot and the seven horses is drawn on the ground. On the four sides 'rangoli' is made (designs made with powders) and in the centre cow dung is burnt. Then on the stove milk is boiled in earthen vessels while facing the sun. When the milk boils it is believed it reaches the sun. Then an offering of 'khir' made of wheat is shown to the Sun. In the 'sup' (basket for sifting corn) twelve heaps of grain are offered to the sun, the number corresponding to the twelve constellations through which the sun goes. Grain is offered to the brahmins. Some people show their respect to the sun by bowing twelve times every day to the sun, repeating every time one of the twelve names of the sun. These twelve names are: Mitra, Ravi, Surya, Ahanu, Khag, Pushan, Hirnyagarbha, Marichi, Aditya, Savita, Arka, and Bhaskar. On this day a new season begins, the sun sitting on his chariot sets out on his journey.God is the mover of this world. The shining brilliance of God is the most exalted and the most difficult to describe. This brilliance is liked by everybody. We meditate upon such brilliance. We bring it to our mind. May this God, who is the sun, inspire our intellect and our devotional medita-tion and may the recitation of this gayatri illumine our intellect.GREAT DAY..... SAIRAMTAKE CARE.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 16, 2008 Report Share Posted February 16, 2008 Attn: Sai Ankita What a nice explaination of the Divine Episode. My sister had been to Tirupati Balaji to witness this Divine Event and traditionally she been following this day for the last couple of years. I did not not knew the importance of the same till I read the true divine meaning of this event. Infact, I had taken all my sister to the same Event last year whom we all met after 32 years together and was a wonderful memorable event to recapitulate of our teen age years as a joint family and happiness in those true loving youth days with my Ancestral elders of the past. All my sister lived in United States and now they are grandmothers too with their children grown up and we still live in the bondage of same family love. Love is God and Divine and Eternal. My Pranams to Divine Didi . Thanks for the same Ravinder Thota Canada Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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