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Stars that tell you

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Our forefathers saw a much much brighter sky. And probably even a different one. There could have been a star that died from then to now. Or stars rearranged. Or a new star was born thereafter. Or light from a star just reached us now. Well, that's not the point I want to make. Rather these stars tell us a lot. Tell us a lot of information. The new generation, like that of mine and younger, forgets to learn from the sky. They forget, or don't have time to observe the sky. Big miss, I would say. Our forefathers, the first observers, the first so-called discoverers, leant a lot from the sky. They observed that the sky changed every night. Actually, shifted in one direction every night and repeated itself, I mean repeated the same pattern of stars, exactly after 365 days. This discovery along with many other factors like where the moon is on that day, how long is the day compared to night, did flowers bloom etc would have led to the preparation of the first form of calendars. ...

Hello Acha,

Hello Acha, I thought I start writing to you more often. I know you love to conceive thoughts, ideas, experiences from reads. I am thinking you will relish reading what I write to the extent as if I was there and we were in an in-person discussion. Lately, I have been thinking about India, our traditions, customs, religions etc.. It is very tough to explain what Hinduism is. But it is foremost and very important to understand Hinduism goes many many years back. Like Judaism. Both these prehistoric religions never had strong propagators like Ashoka for Buddism or the 10 disciples of Jesus for Christianity. Also, there is no set procedure to convert someone to a Hindu. Sorry, I am already going off topic. I rather wanted to talk about Hindu Sannyasis / Munees/ Yogis / Rishis etc.. Why does Hinduism work? Why does the way of living of the people who lived on the banks of the Hindu river work? Some, if not all can be attributed to the work of these Munis / Rishis. Think about how many ...