InFacts about India-29 April 2022

🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA🇮🇳
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The old name of Delhi is Indraparastha according to Mahabharata era. Pandavas used to live in indraprasta. In due course eight more cities came alive adjacent to Indraprastha: Lal Kot, Siri, Dinpanah, Quila Rai Pithora, Ferozabad, Jahanpanah, Tughlakabad and Shahjahanabad. After independence in 1947, New Delhi was officially declared as the Capital of India.

VEDIK GYAN:

Why is Gayatri Mantra Chanted?

It is believed that by chanting Gayatri Mantra, you achieve success and happiness in your life. With regular chanting of the Gayatri Mantra, one can firmly establish and stabilize the mind. The mantra is a declaration of appreciation, to both the nurturing sun and the Divine.
Who is Gayatri?
Goddess Gayatri is additionally called “Veda-Mata” or the Mother of the Vedas – Rig, Yajur, Saam and Atharva – in light of the fact that it is the very premise of the Vedas.

*Gayatri Mantra meaning*

O, Divine mother, our hearts are loaded up with darkness. Kindly make this darkness distant from us and advance brightening inside us.

According to Vedas, time has three qualities: satva, rajas, and tamas. (Purity, passion and inaction)
4 am to 8 am and 4 pm to 8 pm have the satvic quality
8 am to 4 pm are rajasic
8 pm and 4 am are tamasic
Satva is the best time to chant the Gayatri Mantra.

LEARN Sanskrit

भवान् /भवति कुतः आगच्छति? –
आप कहासे आ रहे हो ? (where are you coming from?)

अहं विद्यालयतः आगच्छामि – मैं विद्यालय से आरहा हु
(i am coming from school)