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 Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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