Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label uttarayan

Longer Brighter days with Makara Sankranti

"Surya is the devta of jnana, of infinite knowledge and secrets of Creation. He is the Guru of Hanuman and the progenitor of the Suryavansha, in which were born heroes like King Bhagirath, King Raghu and Lord Rama.Surya existed before religion, and provides heat and light to every entity on earth irrespective of their religion, race or birth. The Sun knows no religion. Interestingly , a western u niversity recorded the sound of the Sun and found that the sound it emits closely resembles the sound of Aum, the primordial chant. It is sound which manifests as colours which further manifest into the five elements that constitute everything in physical creation. Rishis of Bharatvarsha, tapped into the sound of Creation and thousands of years ago, gave us the mantra Aum. #MakarSankranti  was of special significance in the ancient world, for it corresponded with the onset of the apparent northward movement of the sun ­ uttarayan, in Sanskrit. That it is no superstition is evident fr...