[Advaita-l] Penumbral Eclipses

[Ravisankar Mayavaram]

I don't think it is about money. These are very service oriented, noble, 
and non-profit organizations. They greatly enrich the value of hindus in 
those areas. In most of these cases, they follow the panchanga computed 
by mypanchang etc.

My intention of asking that question is to understand if there are any 
scriptures that support the observation of penumbral eclipses.

Ravi



On 11/29/2020 10:43 PM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l wrote:
> Namaste
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 7:35 AM Ravisankar Mayavaram via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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>>
>> Why is that (some) temples in the  US observe totally penumbral eclipses
>> and do grahaNa shanti etc.? It is like taking antibiotics even though
>> you have no bacterial infection. Please correct me if I am wrong. I feel
>> some of the things like doing pitR tarpaNa etc. during that time may not
>> even be warranted.
>>
>> Is my understanding wrong?
>>
> 
> It is a money making scheme only. The priests want to earn some money.
> The doctors also want to make money to prescribe medicines when there is no
> infection.
> When there is real Grahana some people don't follow any rules in taking
> food and drinks.
> That is the one extreme.  Following Grahana rules when there is no Grahana
> is the other extreme.
> 
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Ravi
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