{"id":8053,"date":"2009-07-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/24\/solar-eclipse-brings-outpouring-of-devotion\/"},"modified":"2009-07-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T12:00:00","slug":"solar-eclipse-brings-outpouring-of-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/07\/24\/solar-eclipse-brings-outpouring-of-devotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Eclipse Brings Outpouring of Devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/msid-4809745,prtpage-1.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VARANASI, INDIA, July 23, 2009: The famed ghats of Varanasi where full with the devout queuing up for a holy dip in the Ganga during the eclipse period on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Batuk Prasad Shastri, a well-known scholar of Sanskrit and Hinduism, bathed at home before going for a dip in the Ganga during the eclipse. He then returned home to perform a havan and then went out again to give alms to the poor. &#8220;An eclipse is a warning of disaster,&#8221; he said, explaining why the rituals were necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Chandramauli Upadhyaya, a trustee of Kashi Vishvanath Temple, said Indian astrology actually doesn&#8217;t say that eclipse has a direct bad influence on people. Indian astrology treats eclipses as astronomical events. But it does forbid people from undertaking certain tasks like a party or a wedding.<\/p>\n<p>There are, however, other voices in the city trying to propagate a more scientific understanding of the phenomenon. One such person is B. N. Dwivedi, head of the department of applied physics, Institute of Technology, BHU. &#8220;Our ancient sages, who laid down a conduct code for people during eclipses, were correct in doing so in the context of those times. Now, science has understood the phenomenon better and there&#8217;s no reason why people shouldn&#8217;t watch the spectacle with the prescribed precautions,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com VARANASI, INDIA, July 23, 2009: The famed ghats of Varanasi where full with the devout queuing up for,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}