SPIRITUAL CALENDAR 2013—2014

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2013

APRIL

6 Sat Ekadasi 7 Sun Pradosha Puja9/10 T/Wed Amavasya 11 Thu Ugadi; Lunar New Year’s Day;

Vasanta Navaratri Begins 14 Sun Mesha Sankranti (02.58 a.m.) 19 Fri Sri Ramanavami 21 Sun Ekadasi 23 Tue Pradosha Puja; Sri Mahaveer Jayanti 25 Thu Chaitra Purnima; Sri Hanuman Jayanti 26 Fri Lunar Eclipse (Partial); 01.22 to 01.53 a.m.

MAY

5 Sun Ekadasi 7 Tue Pradosha Puja 9 Thu Amavasya 12 Sun Sri Parashurama Jayanti 13 Mon Akshaya Tritiya 15 Wed Sri Adi Sankaracharya Jayanti 16 Thu Sri Ramanujacharya Jayanti 17 Fri Ganga Saptami 21 Tue Ekadasi 22 Wed Pradosha Puja 23 Thu Sri Narasimha Jayanti 24 Fri Kurma Jayanti24/25 F/Sat Purnima 25 Sat Sri Buddha Jayanti

JUNE

1 Sat Anniversary of Sannyasa Diksha ofH.H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj

4 Tue Ekadasi 5 Wed Pradosha Puja 8 Sat Amavasya 18 Tue Ganga Dashara 19 Wed Ekadasi (Nirjala) 21 Fri Pradosha Puja22/23S/Sun Purnima

JULY

3 Wed Ekadasi 5 Fri Pradosha Puja 7/8 S/Mon Amavasya 8 Mon Somavati Amavasya 17 Wed Dakshinayana Begins (02.25 a.m.)

19 Fri Ekadasi (Hari Sayani) 20 Sat Pradosha Puja; Sri Vamana Puja;

Chaturmasya Vrata Begins 22 Mon Purnima; Sri Guru Purnima;

Sri Vyasa Puja; Sri Guru Puja

31 Wed 50th Anniversary of Punyatithi Aradhanaof H.H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj

AUGUST

2 Fri Ekadasi 4 Sun Pradosha Puja 6 Tue Amavasya 11 Sun Naga Panchami 13 Tue Sri Tulsi Das Jayanti 17 Sat Ekadasi 18 Sun Pradosha Puja 20 Tue Upakarma; Raksha Bandhan20/21 T/Wed Purnima 28 Wed Sri Krishna Jayanti

SEPTEMBER

1 Sun Ekadasi 2 Mon Pradosha Puja 3 Tue 5th Anniversary of Punyatithi Aradhana of

H.H. Sri Swami Chidanandaji Maharaj

5 Thu Amavasya 8 Sun 126th Birth Anniversary of

H.H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj

9 Mon Sri Ganesha Chaturthi 10 Tue Rishi Panchami 12 Thu Sri Radha Ashtami 15 Sun Ekadasi 16 Mon Sri Vamana Jayanti 17 Tue Pradosha Puja 18 Wed Sri Ananta Chaturdasi18/19W/Thu Purnima 19 Thu Mahalaya (Pitri Paksha) begins 30 Mon Ekadasi

OCTOBER

2 Wed Pradosha Puja 4 Fri Amavasya; Mahalaya (Pitri Paksha) ends 5 Sat Amavasya; Navaratri Puja begins 10 Thu Sri Saraswati Avahana 12 Sat Sri Durga Ashtami

13 Sun Sri Maha Navami; Vijaya Dasami;Sri Navaratri Puja concludes

15 Tue Ekadasi 16 Wed Pradosha Puja 18 Fri Purnima; Rasalila 30 Wed Ekadasi

NOVEMBER

1 Fri Pradosha Puja; Naraka Chaturdasi 3 Sun Amavasya; Deepavali 4 Mon Sri Govardhan Puja; Sri Gopuja;

Sri Bali Puja 8 Fri Sri Skanda Shashthi 10 Sun Gopashtami; 12th Anniversary of

Punyatithi Aradhana of

H.H. Sri Swami Krishnanandaji Maharaj 11 Mon Tulasi Puja 13 Wed Ekadasi 14 Thu Utthana Dwadasi; Chaturmasya Vrata Ends 15 Fri Pradosha Puja; Vaikuntha Chaturdasi 17 Sun Kartika Purnima; Sri Guru Nanak Jayanti 29 Fri Ekadasi 30 Sat Pradosha Puja

DECEMBER

2 Mon Somavati Amavasya 3 Tue 70th Anniversary of Akhanda Mahamantra

Sankirtana Yajna in Sivananda Ashram 13 Fri Ekadasi; Gita Jayanti 14 Sat Pradosha Puja 16 Mon Sri Dattatreya Jayanti16/17 M/Tue Purnima 24 Tue Christmas Eve 25 Wed Christmas Day 28 Sat Ekadasi 30 Mon Pradosha Puja 31 Tue 70th Anniversary of Pratishtha Mahotsava

of Sri Viswanatha Mandir inSivananda Ashram

2014

JANUARY

1 Wed Amavasya 11 Sat Ekadasi 13 Mon Pradosha Puja

14 Tue Makara Sankranti;Uttararayana Punyakala (06.15 p.m.)

15/16 W/Thu Purnima 27 Mon Ekadasi 28 Tue Pradosha Puja 30 Thu Amavasya

FEBRUARY

4 Tue Vasanta Panchami 6 Thu Ratha Saptami 7 Fri Bhishma Ashtami 8 Sat Madhva Navami 10 Mon Ekadasi 12 Wed Pradosha Puja 14 Fri Purnima 25 Tue Ekadasi 27 Thu Pradosha Puja; Sri Maha Sivaratri

MARCH

1 Sat Amavasya 12 Wed Ekadasi 14 Fri Pradosha Puja 16 Sun Purnima; Sri Gouranga Mahaprabhu

Jayanti 17 Mon Holi 27 Thu Ekadasi 28 Fri Pradosha Puja

30 Sun Amavasya

1. 8th of every month is observed as the birth-date of H.H. Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj.

2. All souls’ day on Amavasyas. 3. Sri Veda Bhagawan Puja on every Purnima and

Amavasya evening. 4. Sri Satyanarayan Puja on every

Purnima evening. 5. Sri Mahamrityunjaya Havan on

Pradosha Puja day. 6. Sri Suryanarayana Puja on Sundays. 7. Sri Siva Puja on Mondays. 8. Sri Skanda Puja on Tuesdays. 9. Sri Vishnu Puja on Wednesdays. 10. Sri Guru Puja on Thursdays. 11. Special Ganga Puja and Lakshmi Puja on Fridays. 12. Sri Hanuman Puja on Saturdays.