NEW YEAR - RESOLUTION

A.NEW YEAR

WESTERN SYSTEM (SOLAR)

·       Gregorian calendar                    [ New year falls on January 01 ]

·       Financial calendar                      [ New year falls on April 01 ]

ISLAMIC CALANDER (LUNAR)           [ New year falls on Moharram 01 ]        

INDIAN SYSTEM

Let us find out first, how many calendars are followed in India.

1.    There are two types of calendar         SOLAR & LUNAR

The main difference between the two is

Solar calendar consisting of       365 days

Lunar calendar consisting          of       355 days (approximate)

2.    Then there are regional calendars following Solar & Lunar systems

Panjabi calendar

Bengali calendar,

Malayalam calendar, 

         Tamil calendar,

         Telugu calendar,

         Kannada calendar,

Nepali calendar, 

And many more

3.    Indian national calendar (solar; gregorian)

Which is followed in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh & Bihar, as basic official calendar.

For rest of India, apart from regional solar calendars, Indian national calendar is followed, for all national & international references.

As there are two calendars (Solar & Lunar); they require to be synchronized.

For that, in every three/four years an extra month is added; in Hindi language this month is called ADHIK-MASS or PURUSHOTTAM-MASS.  In this month only important dates are of birth & death, as they are out of control of man. There no social or religious celebrations in this month.

Complete extra month is passed, only worshipping GOD different ways.

“Most of the Sanatani calendars are inherited from a system first enunciated

in Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa's of Lagadha, a late BCE adjunct to the Veda-s,

standardized in the Sūrya Siddhānta (3rd century CE) and subsequently

reformed by astronomers such as Āryabhaṭṭa (499 CE), Varāhamihira 

(6th c. CE), and Bhāskara II (12^th c. CE). Differences and regional variations

abound in these computations, but the following is a general overview of Sanatani lunisolar calendar.It also varies from region to region.”

…Courtesy Wikipeidia

Like Gregorian calendar, there are two Solar Calendars in India

·       Started by Raja Vikramaditya, Current Vikrami Samvat 2069;

o    56 years older than Gregorian calendar ]

·       Started by Raja Shaka. Current Shaka Samvat 1934;

o    79 years younger than Gregorian calendar ]

There is one more Solar calendar indicating; Starting of KALI-YUG (Next day after LORD KRISHNA died) started…… days back (on January 12, 2013).  

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED TO KNOW IN DETAIL,

ABOUT INDIAN CALENDARS PLEASE VISIT

WIKIPIEDIA  “INDIAN CALANDERS”

B.RESOLUTION

Resolutions can be defined as promises made to self and for oneself.  We know very well that the promises are made to be broken. They become more fragile, when there is no evidence.

In turn by taking resolutions (not publicly), does nothing except killing ones WILL POWER.

Hence in my opinion “New Year Resolution” is only MORAL SUICIDE.

Note: I used to smoke 60-cigarettes a day; left it on my (personal new year) birth day (October 02, 1983). 30 years back & have not taken even a single puff since then.