Month: May 2024

                                                                Mahalaya - The Great Dissolution

Arupa ami, swarupa ami, sarvabhooteshu samsthita
Purusha ami, Prakriti ami
Ami Swaha Mukti Dhatri
I am Formless
Yet with Form
I am immanent in all 
I am Purusha, Prakriti &   All !




The Ten Forms of Time Personified, the Dasa Maha Vidyas.

Kaali, Tara Mahavidya, Shodashi Bhuvaneshwari
Bhairavi, Chinnamasta, Vidya Dhumavathi tadha I
Bhagala Siddha, Vidyacha Matangi, Kamalatmika
Yatha dasha Mahavidyaha: siddhi, vidya prakirthita II

Kaali or Kaalika Devi
Tara Devi
Shodashi Devi
Bhuvaneshwari Devi
Bhairavi Devi
Chinnamasta Devi
Dhumavathi Devi
Bhagalamukhi Devi
Matangi Devi
Kamalatmika or Kamala Devi




The Legend of Skanda Mata

Skanda is Lord Karthikeya, who derives His Name from Karthika or Pleiades constellation. The Seven Sisters were His mothers. But Parvathy took Him as Her own Son. Hence the Divine Mother is known as Skanda Mata.
Who is She, this Eternal Feminine ?
The luminous heart of the Unknown is she,
A power of silence in the depths of God;
She is the Force, the inevitable Word,
The magnet of our difficult ascent,
The Sun from which we kindle all our suns,
The Light that leans from the unrealised Vasts,
The joy that beckons from the impossible,
- Bhagavan Aurobindo - Savitri

Lunar derives from Stellar !

Names of lunar months,
Derive from stellar sources,
Chaitra derives from Chitra,
Aaswina from Aswini.

A Full Moon means,
Sun opposing Moon
When Moon is in Libra, Chitra,
Sun has to oppose in Aries !

During Chaitra, Sun Moon Opposition
Occurs , when Vishu is celebrated
Vishu vakhya sada Chaitre 
Jayathe Mesha Sankrama

The Sacred Viashakha derives
From the Jupiterian VIshakha
When Full Moon in Scorpio
Opposes Sun in Taurus.
( Vaishakhe Vrisha Sankranti)


Sankranti in Sanskrit means,
Solar Ingress in English,
Solstice in Latin,
And Somkran in Thai.

Solar Month is where Sol is.
Lunar months is where Luna is .
Both are Twelve in Number,
Chaitradi & Meshadi Months !

Gemini is Mithuna
Solar Ingress into Gemini occurs
During the lunar month of Jyeshta,
Jyeshte Mithuna Samkarama

During the lunar Aashada
Cancer Solstice occurs
Initiating the Southern Solstice,
Projyate Dakshinayanam

Also Sacred Ramayan Mas,
Sun at 90 degrees,
Gross Right Ascension 90 degrees,
And declination +23 d 27 m.

Sraavana derives from Sravana,
The Lunar Constellation.
Sun in Leo opposes Moon,
Sravane Simha Sankranti 

Moon in the Pleiades,
The Diamaonds in Blue Constellation,
Is opposed by Sun in Scorpio
Kartike Vrischi Sankranti

Virgo Solstice occurs
During lunar Bhaadra
Bhaadra from two stars,
Bhadras, Uttara and Poorva !

When Moon is in Aries, Aswini,
Solar Ingress will be in Libra
Aswine Tula Samkrama
Initiating Tula Vishu & Tula Varsha.

Sagittarius Solstice will be
During lunar Margashirsha
Capricorn Ingress occurs,
During lunar Pousha.
(Masanam Margasheershoham )

Aquarius Solstice occurs
When Moon in in Magha
The Pisces Solar Ingress
During lunar Phalguna

Pousha is derived from Pushya,
The Saturnine Constellation.
Capricorn Solstice occurs In Pousha,
Initiating the Great Pongal !

Pongal results when,
Sun is at 270 degrees,
His declination 23 d 27m,
And Gross RA 270 degrees.

Phalguna derives from Phalguni,
From both Uttara & Poorva
Pisces Solstice occurs in it
Phalgune Meena Sankranti


Sanskrit Original

Vishu vakhya sada Chaitre 
Jayathe Mesha Sankrama

Vaishakhe Vrisha Sankrant 
Jyeshte Mithuna Sankrama

Ashade Karki Sankranti 
Prochyate Dakshinayanam
Sravane Simha Sankranti 
Karthike Vrishcikadhipa 

Bhadrapade Kanya Samkranti 
Aaswine Thula Sankrama
Margasheershe thu Dhanusha 
Poushe Makara Sankrama

Makara khyathu Sankranti 
Uttarayana Samjnitha
Maghe cha Kumbha Sankranti 
Phalgune Meena Sankrama