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SrI:
Dear Sara,

Our Sri Anbil Ramaswamy had written the response as below.
Hope this helps
Regards
Namo Narayana
madhavakkannan

Dear friend:

My take on the subject is as follows:
The day is divided into 5 parts called Abhigamanam,
Upaadaanam, Ijya, Svaadhyaayam and YOga.
Approximately, each period will be around 2 1/2 hours
from the moment of Sunrise.

All Pancha- angams called Thithi, Vaara, Nakshatra,
yOga and KaraNa are to be calculated from the moment
of Sunrise at any given place. Thus, if it is Monday
in India, all these Tithi, Vaara, Nakshatra, yOga and
KaraNa for Monday must be calculated on the basis of
Monday in any part of the world.

Otherwise, a gross discrepancy will ensue as shown
below: 

If Sri -Jayanti is celebrated on say at Mid-night of
any day in India, (since Lord KrishNa was born at
Mid-night) people in USA would have to celebrate it on
the same day in USA at Midnight. 

It would be incongruous for them to observe Srijayanti
at Mid-day (either on the previous or subsequent day)
based on adjustments based on time difference, instead
of at Midnight!

Similarly, Nrisimha Jayanti has to be celebrated in
the evening at dusk when Lord Nrisimha appeared from
the pillar. Calculating on the basis of time
difference, people in USA will be ceklebrating it at
dawn instead of at dusk! Obviously, this is not
correct.

Also, there are at lerast 5 time zones in the USA. If
it is 6.00 am at California (West Coast), it would be
11.00 am at New York (East Coast). The question arises
when should the respective residents observe the
various observances. 

To add to the confusion, some areas in USA follow the
Daylight Savings time from April to October and revert
to standard timings from October to April -  while
many other states do  do not follow this at all !

The Rahukaalam commencing at 7.30 am as per Indian
Standard Time (IST) on Mondays in India is based on
the assumption of IST Sunrise is at 6.00 a m. But even
this IST Computation is not correct because there is
actually a difference of about 60 minutes as between
Mumabi on the West and Kolkatta in the East.

My answer is that everyone should observe with
reference to the exact time of Sunrise in their
respective locations.  This can be verified from the
local Newspapers, Internet, Radio, TV weather channels
etc.

Hope this clarifies.

Dasoham

Anbil Ramaswamy
***************************************
Respected members, namaskar...

While living in India (Tamil Nadu), I was thaught to observe rAhu kAlam as 
follows:
monday - from 7.30 am to 9.00 am
tuesday - from 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm
wednesday - from 12.00 (noon) to 1.30 pm
thursday - from 1.30 pm to 3.00 pm
friday - from 10.30 am to 12.00 (noon)
saturday - from 9.00 am to 10.30 am
sunday - from 4.30 pm to 6.00 pm

Now, I have a doubt: is rAhu kAlam always the same in every country or does it 
depend on geografic coordinates? If it changes according to the country, what 
time shall we observe rahu kalam in Italy? And shall we observe it according to 
solar time or to daylight savings time, which has started just few days ago? 
Can anybody please clarify?


Kind regards,

Sara






 
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