01/01/2021
Scientific and civilizational Hindu calendar
So deep are the roots of the Hindu calendar in the psyche of the common Hindu, even today, that inspite of the Gregorian calendar system being followed in the offices, schools, institutions etc every festival, birth ritual, post-death rites, marriages, new home warming time and date, children’s ‘shaving the head’ ( Mundan) ceremony, Ganga snan (holy bath), Kumbh (world’s biggest congregation of the Hindus- involving more than twenty million people gathering), take place only according to the Hindu calendar system- called Panchanga. It is totally scientific, based on sun, moon and Earth's movements. This civilizational scientific system is mentioned in Vedas as well as Puraras.
Every single social-religious event in a Hindu home is governed by Hindu calendar and not by the Gregorian one, since last many millenniums.
Salutes to the tenacity, perseverance, flexible nature and deep-rooted belief in their ancient arithmetic, geometry, numeric system, cosmology and astronomy, that even the highly accomplished scientist, and a highest ranking chief of a multi national conglomerate would practice in his personal life only the Hindu calendar system.
Even at the advent of supremacists abhrahamic religions and history of cruel and allurance methods of conversion,still this scientific and pluralistic Hindu-Sanatan religion is persistent.