The Logic Behind Indian Festival Dates Vrat and Utsav India’s rituals (Vrat), individual and collective, as well as festivals (utsav), follow a mix of calendrical systems, regional customs, and religious rules. The words "Vrat" and "Utsav" are used in Vedic texts. Many scholars have written treatises to explain the evolution of these words. It is difficult to draw a strict line between vrat and utsav. What are called utsav also have an element of religious rites, and conversely, many vrat have some component of being a festival/ utsav. Dharmasindhu describes Vrat as a kind of religious rite/ pooja, with a resolve or a Sankalp. Utsav is more of a collective observance of Vrat. These vrat connect the practitioner to the divine through discipline and help in spiritual and physical purification. Annual change of dates of these festivals, with respect to the Gregorian calendar, creates confusion and gives an impression that there is something m...
The cosmos has a lot of hidden facts, and we are not aware of them. Humans have been learning from the heavens and updating their lives since ancient times. In doing so, we have forgotten the efforts of the previous generation who had opened the cosmos to us. Some facts we knew, but had no proof of, as we unfold and update, the facts confirm their findings. My effort is to bring out these fundamentals as given in ancient Hindu texts