How many ‘New Years’ per year?<\/p>\n
A good question for a quiz competition.\u00a0 If this question needs good answer, ask this not anywhere else but in Amritapuri.<\/p>\n
Amritapuri is home to a number of peoples and communities from this land and foreign. Also Amritapuri celebrates every group’s ‘new year’ festivals. So no wonder you will get a near- complete picture of new years.<\/p>\n
Only four months ago, January first of the Gregorian calendar, was one New Years’ day.<\/p>\n
January 15th was the second new year’s day that some of our solar calendar based groups celebrated, calling it Pongal.<\/p>\n
March 16th was the third new year’s day for some of us following the lunar calendar; we called it Yugaadi. The day marks the beginning of counting of Yugas or eons.<\/p>\n
Now comes Vishu or Bihu; this is according to the Zodiac new year; normally it falls on April 14; this time on April 15th.. 1654 years back first Vishu was celebrated and it was coincidentally also the first day of the solar calendar.<\/p>\n
Some celebrate Diwali in October\/November as their new year.<\/p>\n
All of them are however related to different aspect of the skies. For example, on Pongal the sun’s path -as we see- shifted northward; yugaadi marks the beginning of spring season. On Vishu the length of the day and the night are equal.<\/p>\n
Cultures are many, but all of them converge in Amritapuri under the canopy of Amma’s universality. It thus helps us understand Amma’s words: Nothing really changes just because the numbers of the year change! Newness is a quality of the heart. For an aspirant every minute is fresh, is a new beginning.<\/p>\n
– Sandhya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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