“PANCHANG & MUHURAT” PART – 1. . - VaishnavSangh.org.uk

Introduction: TIME – references from scripturesShreemad Bhagvat 1.8: 4• Lord Krishna together with the munis there pacified the shocked and affected family who had losttheir friends and family members, by showing how each is subject to the Time that cannot beavoidedS.B. 1.13:17-20• Insurmountable, imperceptible eternal time supremely surpasses all those who are mad andengrossed in their thoughts of attachment to family affairs. Vidura, knowing this well, said toDhritarâshthra: 'O king, please withdraw yourself from here without delay, just see how fear hastaken over. In this material world there is no remedy of any measure or anyone as that fearconcerns the Supreme Lord of eternal time who arrives for all of us. When a person has to giveup life dear as it is to everyone, because it is certainly overtaken by the pull of this time - thenwhat to think of the other things he has acquired?S.B. 1.13:46• How can this body and mind made up of the five elements [fire, water, air, earth and ether] that isunder the control of time, action and the material modes of nature [kâla, karma and gunas]protect others when it is as well bitten by that snake as all others?S.B. 6.1: 42• The divinity of the sun, the fire, the sky, the air, the gods, the moon, the evening, the day and thenight, the directions, the water and the land; all these are Dharma personified verily thus bearingwitness to the embodied living entity.S.B. 6.1; 47• Just as the present time is evidence of the past and an indication for the future, is even so thisbirth indicative of the dharma and adharma of ones past and future births.4