Best star-gazing spots in the U.S.- Peace demonstrators at NATO in Chicago Demonstrators gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit were gearing up for their largest demonstration Sunday, when thousands are expected to march from a downtown park to the lakeside convention center where Pres. B.S. Obama and dozens of other world leaders will meet.
ASK A BRAHMIN
Swami Adrish Ananda, Wisdom Quarterly
Q: When Rahu swallows Surya [when the Sun is eclipsed], what should people do?A: Don't look at it. Don't eat at that time. Be indoors. Do not engage in any activity.
That sounds like the traditional advice of the Native American Navajos, as reported by NPR:
- Navajo members won't watch Sunday's solar eclipse
- The Navajo word for eclipse is “eating the sun.” Tradition says the "sun dies" during a solar eclipse and that it is an intimate event between the Earth, Sun, and Moon. People should engage in no activities during this time.
- There goes the sun: Southland solar eclipse 2012
Of course, "Indians" of the East are those of the West divided by millenia and geography but united by cultural and genetic artifacts. Why did the Vedas or seers (rishis) say to do this?The Sun is very important. It is a portal. Energy comes through it. Celestial events are not what they seem to us. The akasha devas (space-faring shining ones) understood those energies. They showed the rishis. Science today does not yet understand what was taught to the ancients.
