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<blockquote data-quote="Gyani Jarnail Singh" data-source="post: 177383" data-attributes="member: 189"><p><strong>Re: OCCULTISM Rejection in Sikh Reht Maryada (SRM)</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is a very very very COMPLICATED SUBJECT....There are Calendars and calendars and more...OVER 40 are in USE today.. For Example to calculate the Day of EASTER one uses this Formula...</p><p></p><p>C = Y/100, </p><p>N = Y - 19*(Y/19), </p><p>K = (C - 17)/25, </p><p>I = C - C/4 - (C - K)/3 + 19*N + 15, </p><p>I = I - 30*(I/30), </p><p>I = I - (I/28)*(1 - (I/28)*(29/(I + 1))*((21 - N)/11)), </p><p>J = Y + Y/4 + I + 2 - C + C/4, </p><p>J = J - 7*(J/7), </p><p>L = I - J, </p><p>M = 3 + (L + 40)/44, </p><p>D = L + 28 - 31*(M/4). . </p><p></p><p><a href="http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html" target="_blank">http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html</a></p><p></p><p>1. Some Christians beleive their Calendar ( the one the world uses..12/12/2012 !!) is NOT the Right one according to their interpretation of the Bible..sabbath etc...Google for more info..</p><p></p><p>2. The Christian calendar which we all use...year now 2012..called GREGORIAN after Pope Gregory...has undergone many changes..and has been called by various names...Google for more info.. Popes Gregory..Julian have been ordering changes as "TIME" ran out of sync...( Example when your WATCH runs SLOW..or FAST..you just TURN its Hands Back or Forward to sync...same way CALENDARS have to be SHIFTED forward/backward to SYNC them...</p><p></p><p>3. Calendars are based on TIME...based on the SUN (Soalr) or the MOON (Lunar)...The world christian claendar is SOLAR...and the Islamic/Chinese calendars are LUNAR...google for more info..</p><p></p><p>4. What is the problem...?? The problem is the EARTH DOES NOT CIRCLE the SUN in EXACT MINUTE...its rotation is APPROXIMATELY 365.25 days a year....so SHORTCUT solution to this problem..is the .25 days are accumulated over FOUR YEARS..and a EXTRA DAY thus accumalated is added to FEBRUARY...thus February every FOUR YEARS has Feb 29 !! Thsi is called LEAP YEAR....</p><p></p><p>5. However just adding a day didnt solve the problem..because there is still soemthing LEFT OVER...and thsi accumalates over a period of CENTURIES...and the SOLUTION for this was to JUMP (leap) in a big way...Thus the Pope long ago ordered the Leaping and....4th OCTOBER 1582..was followed by 15th March the next day... <span style="color: Red"><strong>11 DAYS disappeared</strong></span> and the GREGORIAN calendar was ADJUSTED...</p><p></p><p>6. The INDIAN CONTEXT...India was using the BIKRMI Calendar. and also the SAKA samvat .which is based on the LUNAR and Solar counting...and in 1957 the INDIAN GOVT passed the Law to use the LUNISOLAR Calendar (Combination of Lunar+Solar)...IN 1957...OVER 30 Calendars were being sued to determine HINDU festivals and many others...the JANTREE would be issued from BENARES to tell you when DIWALI etc was to be in that year... EVERY FIVE YEARS..an ADDITIONAL MONTH was ADDED t the 12 in order to SYNC the LUNAR and SOLAR years...THIS 13th MONTH was considered BAD..ASUBH...!!!</p><p></p><p>7 For 500 years SIKHS also depended on the BENARES PANDITS to determine their GURPURABS....meaning that only when the Benares Jantree was released woudl the SIKHS "KNOW" when to clebrate their GURPURABS !! The SGPC then initiated a panel of experts to formulate a SIKH Calendar called the NANAK SHAHI Calendar which would FIX GURPURAB DATES PERMANENTLY...and this panel led by Calendar Expert Purewal from CANADA decided to Take the ORIGINAL DATES based on the GREGORIAN CALENDAR....and FIX them Permanenetly....example it was calculated that in 1666 31st december was the Birthdate of Guru gobind Singh ji..and after adjustments to 2003...the DATE was Permanently FIXED for JANUARY 5 each year. Simialr calculations were done for all Gurpurabs. Serious opposition form the Traditional SANTS dera and Taksaals forced the GURU NANAK GURPURAB and Vaisakhi and Diwali etc to REMAIN UNCHANGED. Despite this minor setback the SGPC and AKAL TAKHAT launched the NANAKSHAI CALENDAR 2003 FROM AKLA TAKHAT. THE ENTIRE SIKH DIASPORA AND SIKHS WORLDWIDE ACCEPTED THIS NEW CALENDAR AND BEGAN TO HAVE PEACE OF MIND THAT EACH GURPURAB WOULD COME AS SCHEDULED...but this was not really accepted by the SANTS and Deras ( as they ahd also done same to SRM in 1935)....This LOBBY bided its time and when it found it ahd more POWER on SGPC via BADAL..it "persuaded" the Akal takhat to RESCIND the 2003 Nanaksahi calendar and REISSUE the Old Bikrmi+saka+lunar+soalr claendar..which is NOT even used by the INDIAN GOVT. Thsi CORRUPTED Nanksahi calendar was issued in 2010...and since then has proved a MAJOR EMBARASSMENT because several GURPURABS CLASH on certain days..certain YEARS have Gurpurabs TWICE and certain years have NONE !! in 2012 The SHaheedee of Guru Arjun Ji comes AFTER the GURGADEE of Guru hargobind Sahib...On the day of Shaheedee of Guru teg bahdur Ji..would fall the WEDDING Day of Guru nanak Ji..all highly improper and embarassing...NOW CALLS TO SETTLE THIS MATTER ARE RISING DAY BY DAY...AND ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SENSE PREVAILS AND THE 2003 ORIGINAL NANKSHHI CLAENDAR IS READOPTED. THE SIKHS DIASPORA HAVE BEEN STICKING TO THE 2003 NANKSHAI CLAENDAR ALL ALONG....</p><p></p><p>This is very very brief explanation...please google or wiki for more detailed info..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gyani Jarnail Singh, post: 177383, member: 189"] [b]Re: OCCULTISM Rejection in Sikh Reht Maryada (SRM)[/b] This is a very very very COMPLICATED SUBJECT....There are Calendars and calendars and more...OVER 40 are in USE today.. For Example to calculate the Day of EASTER one uses this Formula... C = Y/100, N = Y - 19*(Y/19), K = (C - 17)/25, I = C - C/4 - (C - K)/3 + 19*N + 15, I = I - 30*(I/30), I = I - (I/28)*(1 - (I/28)*(29/(I + 1))*((21 - N)/11)), J = Y + Y/4 + I + 2 - C + C/4, J = J - 7*(J/7), L = I - J, M = 3 + (L + 40)/44, D = L + 28 - 31*(M/4). . [url]http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html[/url] 1. Some Christians beleive their Calendar ( the one the world uses..12/12/2012 !!) is NOT the Right one according to their interpretation of the Bible..sabbath etc...Google for more info.. 2. The Christian calendar which we all use...year now 2012..called GREGORIAN after Pope Gregory...has undergone many changes..and has been called by various names...Google for more info.. Popes Gregory..Julian have been ordering changes as "TIME" ran out of sync...( Example when your WATCH runs SLOW..or FAST..you just TURN its Hands Back or Forward to sync...same way CALENDARS have to be SHIFTED forward/backward to SYNC them... 3. Calendars are based on TIME...based on the SUN (Soalr) or the MOON (Lunar)...The world christian claendar is SOLAR...and the Islamic/Chinese calendars are LUNAR...google for more info.. 4. What is the problem...?? The problem is the EARTH DOES NOT CIRCLE the SUN in EXACT MINUTE...its rotation is APPROXIMATELY 365.25 days a year....so SHORTCUT solution to this problem..is the .25 days are accumulated over FOUR YEARS..and a EXTRA DAY thus accumalated is added to FEBRUARY...thus February every FOUR YEARS has Feb 29 !! Thsi is called LEAP YEAR.... 5. However just adding a day didnt solve the problem..because there is still soemthing LEFT OVER...and thsi accumalates over a period of CENTURIES...and the SOLUTION for this was to JUMP (leap) in a big way...Thus the Pope long ago ordered the Leaping and....4th OCTOBER 1582..was followed by 15th March the next day... [COLOR=Red][B]11 DAYS disappeared[/B][/COLOR] and the GREGORIAN calendar was ADJUSTED... 6. The INDIAN CONTEXT...India was using the BIKRMI Calendar. and also the SAKA samvat .which is based on the LUNAR and Solar counting...and in 1957 the INDIAN GOVT passed the Law to use the LUNISOLAR Calendar (Combination of Lunar+Solar)...IN 1957...OVER 30 Calendars were being sued to determine HINDU festivals and many others...the JANTREE would be issued from BENARES to tell you when DIWALI etc was to be in that year... EVERY FIVE YEARS..an ADDITIONAL MONTH was ADDED t the 12 in order to SYNC the LUNAR and SOLAR years...THIS 13th MONTH was considered BAD..ASUBH...!!! 7 For 500 years SIKHS also depended on the BENARES PANDITS to determine their GURPURABS....meaning that only when the Benares Jantree was released woudl the SIKHS "KNOW" when to clebrate their GURPURABS !! The SGPC then initiated a panel of experts to formulate a SIKH Calendar called the NANAK SHAHI Calendar which would FIX GURPURAB DATES PERMANENTLY...and this panel led by Calendar Expert Purewal from CANADA decided to Take the ORIGINAL DATES based on the GREGORIAN CALENDAR....and FIX them Permanenetly....example it was calculated that in 1666 31st december was the Birthdate of Guru gobind Singh ji..and after adjustments to 2003...the DATE was Permanently FIXED for JANUARY 5 each year. Simialr calculations were done for all Gurpurabs. Serious opposition form the Traditional SANTS dera and Taksaals forced the GURU NANAK GURPURAB and Vaisakhi and Diwali etc to REMAIN UNCHANGED. Despite this minor setback the SGPC and AKAL TAKHAT launched the NANAKSHAI CALENDAR 2003 FROM AKLA TAKHAT. THE ENTIRE SIKH DIASPORA AND SIKHS WORLDWIDE ACCEPTED THIS NEW CALENDAR AND BEGAN TO HAVE PEACE OF MIND THAT EACH GURPURAB WOULD COME AS SCHEDULED...but this was not really accepted by the SANTS and Deras ( as they ahd also done same to SRM in 1935)....This LOBBY bided its time and when it found it ahd more POWER on SGPC via BADAL..it "persuaded" the Akal takhat to RESCIND the 2003 Nanaksahi calendar and REISSUE the Old Bikrmi+saka+lunar+soalr claendar..which is NOT even used by the INDIAN GOVT. Thsi CORRUPTED Nanksahi calendar was issued in 2010...and since then has proved a MAJOR EMBARASSMENT because several GURPURABS CLASH on certain days..certain YEARS have Gurpurabs TWICE and certain years have NONE !! in 2012 The SHaheedee of Guru Arjun Ji comes AFTER the GURGADEE of Guru hargobind Sahib...On the day of Shaheedee of Guru teg bahdur Ji..would fall the WEDDING Day of Guru nanak Ji..all highly improper and embarassing...NOW CALLS TO SETTLE THIS MATTER ARE RISING DAY BY DAY...AND ITS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SENSE PREVAILS AND THE 2003 ORIGINAL NANKSHHI CLAENDAR IS READOPTED. THE SIKHS DIASPORA HAVE BEEN STICKING TO THE 2003 NANKSHAI CLAENDAR ALL ALONG.... This is very very brief explanation...please google or wiki for more detailed info.. [/QUOTE]
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