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*Aadi Amavasya is the no moon day in the Tamil month of Aadi and is considered highly auspicious for performing rituals to the dead like Shradh and Tarpan. Aadi Amaavasai 2011 date is July 30. The day is also auspicious to Lord Muruga. Important rituals on the day include performing rites for dead ancestors in sacred Teerths and riverbanks and also taking a holy dip in sacred rivers and spots.* *Devout Hindus perform holy bath in various scared rivers, seas and sacred ponds or Teerthams in Tamil Nadu. Thousands of Hindus take a holy dip and perform rites to the dead ancestors at Agni Theertham in Rameswaram, Thriveni Sangamam in Kannyakumari and various holy spots on the banks of Cauvery River.* *Fasting on Aadi Amavasai is considered highly beneficial and some people only have a single meal on the day.Aadi month is of great importance to Lord Muruga and on Amavasai day special abhishekams and pujas are held. It is also widely believed by Muruga devotees that one will be purified and all sins will be washed away by taking a holy dip in the Shanmuga River in Palani on the Aadi Amavasya day.* *As a mark of respect and thanksgiving people also tonsure their head at Palani Muruga Temple on the day.* *Are Your Ancestors Controlling You? *** *If your finances, relationships, health, business, your peace of mind etc are not progressing how you’d like, consider that it could be interference from your departed ancestors.* *Just as your physical is built by your physical DNA, your soul was built by soul genes. Not all of your thinking and doing is what you really want to do. You are conflicted. There is some interference from your soul lineage.* * **Aadi Amavasya New Moon*** *Aadi Amavasya is the New Moon in the Tamil month of Aadi. New Moons are the times to set is right with your ancestors. The months of Aadi- July/August- and Thai- January/February, are considered especially Divine Months that the Gods and Goddesses have marked as the months they will most enhance our lives. * * This year it falls on a Saturday which is fortunate as any Tarpanam or ritual done to appease your ancestors will be taken into account by Lord Saturn and logged as good karma. Saturn is very vigilant in seeing over the books and it is always good to get in ‘good’ with Saturn!* * * * **Think Your Own Thoughts *** *There is an easy way to end this stalemate and that is to appease, propitiate, restore harmony or re-establish friendly relations with your ancestral energy bank. Tarpanam is the leveller. When you ‘feed’ the souls of the departed, you will be free to think and do for yourself. You will be free from their influence that is old thinking or patterning- antiquated mind-sets. * *Consider how your state of mind changes when you are acknowledge and ‘seen’. * *K.Raman. *
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