calendar-challenged

[Guest guest]

hi all

 

anyone have a web link or easy source for the hindu calendar as used

by swamiji? i had one last year but no longer have it, so i am still

stumped by getting every aspect of the sankalpa right, despite many

kind efforts to educate me! [most recently by karen -- thanks karen!

bad student, i!] anyway, looking at a calendar i was usually able to

make the translation from the western calendar to the sukla, tithi,

etc.

 

i visited about 10 web sites and they all had either 2002 calendars,

or, only listed events. i did however get a better sense of the

marvelous integration of time into spiritual phases and other

activites in this system.

 

in the event of some kind of indian-calendar-challenged-disability,

what is the view on inserting western days, weeks, omitting the

phases, etc? iow, saying anything difficult in english.

 

and, what about parts like, in the sankalpa, what exactly we are doing

for example, studying the Guru Gita] most likely will be said in

english, unless it is a sankalpa latha has interpreted.

 

ideally i would rather get it right if i can!

 

if i can't [for now] are there any thoughts out there on capturing the

essence of the spirit of the sankalpa without any loss, but not

capturing the traditional form?

 

any ideas?

 

blessings!

 

s

[Guest guest]

Steve,

 

The calendar below has the remaining months of 2004 and then goes

through 2005 and beyond. I can't comment on the calendar's accuracy

or completeness, but last month I think I noticed that the new moon

date on this (South African?) calendar was one day off from the new

moon date for Pacific Time U.S. (Devi Mandir). I expect the

discrepancy was due to timezones. So it might be worthwhile to check

the new/full moon dates with something like the U.S. Naval

Observatory. (I am assuming you are in the U.S.). It seems that

those of us in the U.S. might do better with an already-U.S.-adjusted

calendar; does anybody know of one?

 

Moon Calendar

http://www.hinduism.co.za/moon.htm

 

U.S. Naval Observatory moon phases:

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/

 

Time conversions, for use with the moon data:

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

 

, "Steve Connor" <sconnor@a...>

wrote:

> anyone have a web link or easy source

> for the hindu calendar as used

> by swamiji? [....]