Chandrayan : (vow) a one-month fast in which the quantity of food taken increases & decreases with waxing & waning moon: beginning with one morsel on the 1st day of the shukla-paksha (bright fortnight) till on Poornima (full-moon) the number of morsels taken rises to fifteen, after which the morsels decrease in the krishna-paksha (dark fortnight), ending with none on Amāvāsya (no-moon). For one initiated into the spiritual path this vow is a sādhanā to embody the movement or action of spiritual forces leading to the nectar of spiritual Ananda.
... by my journey. I was returning from after performing the Chandrayan penance. I had gone to the Kir kingdom, where a chandala king was the ruler. Eight years ago he burnt himself to death. All his subjects, ministers, prime minister died in the same way too. It was to cancel that evil out that I had gone to Prayag to perform the Chandrayan penance." Rishi Gadhi thought: "How amazing! All ...
... Blessing of the New-born attendant on the birth of a son. प्रायश्चित्तानि पापक्षयमात्रसाधनानि चान्द्रायणादीनि ॥११॥ 11) By penances is understood vows and forms of self-discipline such as the Chandrayan vow which are means only towards the purging away of sin. उपासनानि सगुणब्रह्मविषयकमानसव्यापाररुपाणि शाण्डिल्यविद्यादीनि ॥१२॥ 12) By adoration is understood the various forms of mental working ...
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