Pongal 2010 – 2010 Tamil calendar or Tamil calendar 2010

Pongal 2010 in India & in 2010 Tamil calendar stated this festival would be celebrated on the date of 14 January Thursday. Pongul is better know as Kite festival & also as the first feast in the New Year. For Hindus the date of Pongal or Makara Sankranti is extremely auspicious and astronomically significant. Around January 14, every year sun begins its six-months-long journey northwards or in Uttarayan and moves into the zodiac Capricorn or Makaram Rashi. This celestial event is celebrated as Pongal in South India. Pongal Festival marks the end of cold winter months and the advent of spring. Celebration of Pongal lasts for four days from the last day of the Tamil month Maargazhi (December-January) to the third day of Thai that is the month of January – February according to Western Calendar. It is the second and the main day of the festival that is celebrated as Pongal every year.

Importance of sesame seeds

Using sesame seeds eliminates sins: On this day those who apply sesame seed oil and utane to the body, bathe in water mixed with sesame seeds, drink water mixed with sesame seeds, perform a sacrificial fire, make an offering of sesame seeds and make similar use of sesame seeds, are liberated of all sins.

Importance according to Spirituality:

1. Since sesame seeds have a greater ability to absorb and emit sattva frequencies, consuming tilgul helps improve spiritual practice. Distributing tilgul to one another results in an exchange of the sattva component.

2. Using sesame seeds in shraddh prevents demons from bringing obstacles during the rite.

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