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Festivals : 8 Shivratri; 14 Karadaiyan Nonbu; 24 Holi; 25 Panguni Uththaram; 29 Good Friday; 31 Easter Monday
Amavasyai/New Moon Day -10;
Purnima/ Full Moon day- 24;
Ekadasi Fasting Days- 6, 20;
Auspicious Days – 1,7,8,20, 24,28.
March 1 Friday
1.108.2. A person wishing for success and achievement should always associate with good men: never with the wicked; it is good neither for this nor the other world.
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March 2 Saturday
1.4.37-8 perfect brahmacaris attain Brahmaloka, perfect grhasthas Prajapatiloka, perfect vanaprasthas Saptarsiloka, perfect sannyasis the imperishable region (Brahman)
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March 3 Sunday
The offering to bhutas – living beings or spirits – is to be known as bhuta yajna.
1.50.72 Food offerings to dogs, svapacas (outcastes), fallen people, on the ground outside (the house) as also to the birds.
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March 4 Monday
1.50.73 Pitr yajna is conducive to liberation. The best man shall feed a single brahmana bearing all the manes in mind. It has to be performed every day faithfully.”
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March 5 Tuesday
1.59.40 “Add together the letters in the names of the husband and wife. Divide by three. If two is the remainder, wife is harmed, if one or zero, husband is harmed.”
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March 6 Wednesday
1.60.15-17 Hikka (sound of hiccup) when heard from east: great results, south-east: sorrow and anxiety, south: loss, south-west: sorrow and anxiety, west: sumptuous feast, north-west: money, north: quarrel.
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March 7 Thursday
1.63.5-6 people destined to become: great men or kings – one hair in each pore, great scholars and Vedic interpreters – two hairs out of each pore, poor – three hairs out of each pore.
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March 8 Friday
1.64.6 “A real wife is like a minister for the personal affairs of her husband, a friend in executing his tasks, in affectionate dealings she is like his mother and in his bed she is like a courtesan to him. Such a wife is auspicious.”
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March 9 Saturday
1.68.27-29 diamonds with defects – inauspicious, bring bad luck up to death.
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March 10 Sunday
1.81.24 “He who takes a holy dip in the tirtha of Manasa (mind) that has the eddy of Jnana (pure knowledge) and the pure water of Dhyana (meditation) that removes the dirt of Raga (passion) and Dvesa (hatred) attains the supreme goal.”
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March 11 Monday
1.94.17 …One shall never find fault with the food served. (+1.96.16)
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March 12 Tuesday
1.95.24-26 The highest duty of a woman is to carry out the behests of her husband.
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March 13 Wednesday
1.96.72 “By eating garlic and onion one becomes sinful and as atonement one should perform Candrayana.
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March 14 Thursday
1.98.3 A gift should never be taken by a person devoid of learning and austerity. By taking it he degrades the giver as well as himself.
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March 15 Friday
1.98.15 “Since God has created the universe with Vedas as the basis, collection of Vedic texts with bhasyas (commentaries) should be done with effort.
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March 16 Saturday
1.105.48 Willful abortion and hatred of the husband are great sins in women without any expiation. [This chapter deals with atonements for specific sins.]
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March 17 Sunday
1.107.3 In the Kali age charity is the main virtue. Other virtues are likely to forsake the doer. Sinful deeds are perpetrated only in the Kali age. A curse bears fruit in a year.
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March 18 Monday
1.107.28 “If the husband is untraceable, dead, or has renounced the world, is impotent or degraded – in these cases of emergency a woman can remarry.”
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March 19 Tuesday
1.108.3. One should always avoid arguments with mean-minded base people and shun even the sight of the wicked. He should avoid enmity with friends and intimacy with persons serving the enemy.
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March 20 Wednesday
1.108.4. Even the scholar comes to grief by trying to advise a foolish disciple, by supporting a wicked wife and by keeping the company of the wicked men.
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March 21 Thursday
1.108.6. Alliance with an enemy or estrangement with a friend should be indulged in at proper time. A true scholar bides his time after a careful consideration of causes and effects.
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March 22 Friday
1.108.7. Time allows all living beings to mature, time brings the dissolution of all people. Even when people are asleep, time is watchful and awake, it is difficult to transgress time.
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March 23 Saturday
1.108.9. The passage of time is incomprehensible. It has two-fold functions, an apparent gross movement at one place and a subtle invisible movement at another.
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March 24 Sunday
1.108.12. A person never comes to grief if he associates with good people, conducts discourses with scholars and contracts intimate friendship with persons devoid of greed.
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March 25 Monday
1.108.14. A well-intentioned enemy is actually a kinsman and a kinsman acting against one’s interests is an enemy. Sickness in the body is inimical and a herb in the forest is friendly and beneficial.
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March 26 Tuesday
1.108.16. He is the true servant who is loyal and obedient; it is the real seed that germinates well; she is the real wife who speaks pleasantly and he is the real son who lives to the family tradition.
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March 27 Wednesday
1.109.4. The intelligent man fixes one foot firmly and moves with the other. Without testing the new place well, the old place of resort should not be abandoned.
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March 28 Thursday
1.108.24. A wife who appreciates good qualities, devoted to her husband, and satisfied with the minimum in everything is real beloved.
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March 29 Friday
1.108.28. Devotion in the son, good deed in the ungrateful, coldness in the fire may occur sometime by God’s grace; but love in a prostitute is never come across.
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March 30 Saturday
1.109.1. Money should be saved for emergency; wife should be protected by spending hoarded wealth and one’s own self should be saved even at the risk of preserved assets and wife.
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March 31 Sunday
1.109.2. One should sacrifice oneself to save the family; a family should be sacrificed to save the village; a village should be sacrificed for the safety of the land and the land should be sacrificed to save one’s soul.
—subham—
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