Wish you all friends and Family members a very Happy Rath yaatra of Ashadhi Bij and Happy Kutchi New year. From: kutchsciencefoundation@hotmail Dear friends of Kutch, Science Astronomy and all Kutchies. RATH YATRA held on ASHAD SUD2-JUNE29 as Kutchi NEW year and all kutchi from all over the world gathered in KUTCH to celebrate the NEW year. Kutchies will celebrate double celebrations in Swaminarayan temples at Bhuj and Stanmore Swaminarayan temple in Harrow UK.. SuratAstronomyClub SuratAstronomyClub-subscribe@yahoogroups VEDicScienceMaths VEDicScienceMaths-subscribe@yahoogroups bhavnagarastronomyclub BhavnagarAstronomyClub-subscribe@yahoogroups MahuvaAstronomyClub MahuvaAstronomyClub-subscribe@yahoogroups Subject: HAPPY KUTCHI NEW YEAR and RATH YATRA on ASHADHI BBEJ(Dwij) day of KUTCHI NEW YEAR - legends - PUBLIC SCIENCE and Astronomy. PUBLIC SCIENCE: A system was used in the pre monsoon festival of Ashadhi-beej to check the moisture in the atmosphere to help predict which crop would do best in the monsoon planting season so as to get the best autumn crop.Depending on decide on the types of crops that would do best for spring harvest. also good muharat on the day. Astronomy: Sun in MITHUN in the rashi of name KRISHNA. both are near tropic of Cancer (KARK WRUT) the tilting angle of the EARTH, EARTH changes the angle of tilt from 22.5 to 24 degree , May be the tilt of the Earth was about +23° 19 3.3 at that time before +5000 years ago and so at that time that was the (KARK WRUT) and so that may be the time of SUMMER solstice. which is +23° 27 now a days is on 21 June. According to legends : Lord Jagannath said to have expressed His desire to visit His birthplace Gundicha Ghar once every year. According to others Subhadra wanted to visit Dwarka, her parents home therefore, her two brothers Jagannath and Balabhadra took her there on this day. According to Bhagavad Puran on this day. Krishna and Balaram went to Mathura on the invitation of Kansa to participate in the competition. The entire Ratha Yatra is a symbolic humanisation of God. All rituals associated with the festival demonstrate an attempt to bring the God down from His pedestal of glory to a more human level. On the day of journey the three chariots the yellow coloured Nandighosa, blue coloured Taladwaja and Deviratha are lined up in front of the temple and then the deities are brought on to their respective Chariots. Once the king of Puri the living symbol of Lord Jagannath sweeps the chariots with scented water and golden broom, the pilgrims lined up with the rope pull the chariots on the Badadanda to Gundicha Ghar. Ratha Yatra commemorates when Krishna and Balaram went from Vrindavan to Mathura in Akruras Ratha, even though the Vaishnava deep meaning is the opposite. Its the ecstatic mood when The Lord came back from Dwarka to Vrindavan. The cleansed heart, as the dear song says: antara mandire jago jago Madhava Krishna Gopal !, please arise in the temple of my heart. According to another legend, Subhadra wanted to visit Dwarika, her parents home, and her brothers Jagannatha and Balabhadra took her there on this day. The Ratha Yatra is said to be a commemoration of that visit. According to a legend in the Bhagavad Purana, Kansa sent his messenger to Gokul to ask Krishna to visit Mathura and participate in the great wrestling competition. It is believed that it was on this day that Krishna and Balarama went to Mathura to participate in the competition. Another says, Lord Krishna vanquished evil Kansa and gave the devotees Darshan in Mathura, in a chariot with his brother Balaram. In Dwarka, the victory over evil is celebrated with devotees showing the sister Shubadra the city in a chariot alongwith Krishna and Balaram. Once in Dwarka, Lord Krishnas eight queens requested mother Rohini to narrate the divine episodes of Lord Krishna with the Gopis while he was in Vraj. For a while Rohini did not agree. Finally, after a lot of insistence she gave away. However, considering it unbecoming of Subhadra to hear such episodes (Leela), she sent her to guard the palace doorway. Yet the Vrajkatha soon absorbed Subhadra. Soon, Lord Shri Krishna and Balaram arrived at the doorway. With arms wide apart, she stood between the two, preventing them from entering. However, from where they stood, Rohinis katha soon engrossed them all! Just then sage Narad arrived. Seeing the siblings standing together like murtis, he humbly prayed, May the three of you grant darshan in this manner forever. The Lord granted the boon. And the three eternally reside in the Jagannath Mandir in Puri. Theres also an interesting story of Krishna becoming Sarthi of Arjuns Chariot in Mahabharata and giving him Lifes advice. A story which has been passed on from mouth to mouth, concerns about what happened after the cremation of Lord Krishnas mortal body... When Shri Krishna was being cremated in Dwarika, Balaram overcame with grief and dashed into the ocean with Shri Krishnas partially cremated body. Subhadra too, followed both the brothers. At the same time, on the eastern shore of India, King Indradyumna of Jagannath Puri had a dream that the Lords body would float up to the shores of Puri. He should build a huge Temple in the city and make the wooden idols (murtis) of Shri Krishna, Balaram and Subhadra. The bones (asthi) of Lord Krishnas body should be placed in the hollow in the back of the murti. The dream came true. He found the splinters of bone (asthi) and took them. But the question was who would carve the murtis. It is said that the architect of the gods, Vishwakarma arrived as an old carpenter. He said that while carving the murtis nobody should disturb him and if anybody did, he would stop work and leave. A few months passed by. One day, being impatient, Indradyumna opened the door of Vishwakarmas room, who vanished instantly as he had said. Despite the incomplete murtis, the king consecrated them, placing the holy cinders of Lord Krishna in the hollow of the murti and installed them in the Temple. Every year a grand procession is carried out with the murtis of Lord Krishna, Balaram and Subhadra in three gigantic floats. The floats are pulled by devotees from Janakpur to the mandir in Jagannath Puri. The murtis are changed every twelve years, the new ones being incomplete too. The Jagannath Mandir in Jagannath Puri is one of the four most sacred mandirs in the four directions of the Indian sub - continent. The other three are: Rameshwar in South, Dwarka in West and Badrinath in the Himalayas. Probably the mandir in Jagannath Puri is the only mandir in the world housing murtis of three deities who are siblings - Lord Krishna, Balaram and Subhadra. The statues of Krishna, Balaram and Subhadra are found in Jagannathpuri in Orissa which is worshipped with great fervour during Rathyatra. The Jagannath Mandir in Jagannath Puri is one of the four most sacred mandirs in the four directions of the Indian sub - continent. The other three are Rameshwar in South, Dwarka in West and Badrinath in the Himalayas. Probably theTemple in Jagannath Puri is the only Temple in the world housing idols (murtis) of three deities who are siblings - Lord Krishna, Balaram and Subhadra.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 11:36:36 +0000