THE MOON- CHANDRAN- PART 1 Dear friends,
Leaving SUN, the planet or subplanet which can be seen clearly by the naked eye is the MOON. While looking at Sun especiallyin a bright day in the afternoon, we might feel strain in the eyes. Watching aSun in the morning which is told as Sunrise and watching the Sun in the eveningwhich is told as Sunset is a thrilling and enjoying experience. It need not bein the sea shore, many a time, while travelling in train seeing sun through thehills nearby give such an experience. The Sun has got hot red colour inthe morning and evening. After wards it turns golden yellow and then bright formaximum time. There is a variation also in the size during rising and setting-slightly larger than we see in the other times. The Moon we can observe even after Sunrise on many days, sometimes evenup to 9 AM. Similarly we can see the moon well before sunseteven by 5 PM. So as we say Sunrise and sunset, they do not coincide with moonrise and moonset .But while much variation is not seen in the positionof Sun, with naked eye we can observe changes in the position of moon. If we see moon at a particulartime, on a day and note the location, after five days, we can see it in adifferent location. But moon is almost having the same colour- some brightwhite. Another observation with nakedeye is the size of the moon. It is a cyclic, on a certain day it is a fullcircle and on certain days it is practically nil, this variation in its size isgradual either increasing or decreasing. When it is above half size, wecan very clearly see some shapes in the MOON. The day when the MOON is full isobserved fifteen days after the moon was seen nil, by expanding day by day. Itis also observed after seeing Moon in its full size; it gets reduce in sizegradually to nil after fifteen days. So once in 30 days we observe moon in full size. Another interesting thingobserved is the time of appearance and disappearance. The moon is not seenduring entire nights in the thirty days. When the moon is in full size, it isseen throughout the night. When the moon is nil in size, throughout the nightit remains dark. These are observed things with naked eye by the common man. While the moon is there, thewarmth is lesser, wind is more, and generally we feel more comfort to say. Butthis is due to disappearance of warm sun appeared in the day. Still it isdepend on the seasons. Just think there is no warm sunin the day- we do not know how the night we may feel in that case. Duringcontinuous rain days with full cloud, during rainy season we feel muchchillness during the night, when the sun appears to naked eye for some minutesor hours. Just think the SUN is not all appearing to naked eye!!! It is still there covered by dark clouds. Stillwe feel some warmth since sunlight takes light years to reach us. So comparing to SUN some moreexperiences are there with MOON. This is a general write up onmoon, specially giving importance to its mythology side. Hope to give an interestingreading. Sincerely, Gopala Krishnan 21-4-2012 Reposted on 24-5-2021 after editing and updating. R. Gopala Krishnan 1. What is the reason for Chandra or Moon getting its size changed? An interesting mythology story istold about it. King Daksha had many daughters. Many of them were married tosage Kashyapa, a few to Dharma raja, TWENTY SEVEN to Moon and One to Lord Siva. One daughter married to Lord Sivawas the Sati. We know how she lost her body creating fire and immolating… Sage Kashyapa is the creator formany forms of beings in the earth through his wives. The snakes, the birds etc.come in this group… Coming to Moon, as already told27 daughters were married. They are the twenty seven stars from Aswathi toRevathi. But Moon did not give equalaffection to all his wives. With Rohini he was more affectionate and happy.There is also a view with Ketta and Anisham he was not so happy comparing withother 24 star wives. Having different mothers or somesuch reason, all the twenty six stars decided to inform father Daksha aboutthis. Giving respect to son in law, he called Moon and advised to have equalaffection, without touching anywhere. It appears for some time herespected his father in law’s advice but later again become affectionate toRohini. Again the daughters approachedand this time for not hearing his advice, Daksha was really angry withMoon. He cursed him to be body less. 1a. Moon approach Lord Siva. Lord Siva sympathetically heardhis co brother’s request, made to him at Kailasa. Moon had become body less. But Lord Siva had his ownlimitations. He laid two conditions to moon- I would keep you in vigil as anarc in my head. I cannot fully restore your body. I wouldrestore it and on becoming full growth again you will be losing the body. Somehowyou will be having body. 1b. Moon agrees to Siva’s condition. Something is better than nothing.Moon knew very well nothing more could be achieved. Sometimes if approached, cobrothers sage Kashyapa or Dharmaraja may take stands more badly. Moon simply agreed. Lord Siva worn him as an arc. So Lord Siva became CHANDRASEKHARA. So on account of this the cyclic size changeof Moon God occurring asper mythology. Still he was getting morehappiness with Rohini and partial to her. In many templeswe can see depiction of Moon with Rohini on account of this. It isbelieved if for any person moon is badly placed in the chart, worshipping Moon with Rohiniwould reduce ill effect. I will continue more about Moon tomorrow. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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