8 April 2014
Kept on the day its tithi runs at midday (madhyahna).
- Tithi
- Shukla Navami · until 05:37, 9 April 2014
- Nakshatra
- Punarvasu
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 06:26 – 18:55
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 12:15 – 13:05
Festival · 2014
Rama Navami 2014
Falls on 8 April 2014 in Surat, as computed from the real sky for that city.
The portal of Festivals
Today's three riddles
Turn a card. Answer all three rightly and this portal is sealed in your sky. New riddles every morning.
The day, for Surat
The day is chosen by the moment the tradition reads its tithi at, and the times are that day's own, computed for this city. A festival-specific puja window is not printed: those rules differ by tradition and await a scholar's review.
What the day is
The birth of Rama — the tradition's model not of power but of conduct under impossible constraint. The point of Rama is never what he could do; it is what he would not do.
One act for the day
Keep a promise today that is costing you something. That is the entire teaching.