पञ्चाङ्ग — Chicago, USA · April 10, 1999 CE

🕉️ Sapta-Mokṣa-Puri · Localize for your Pīṭha
अयोध्या मथुरा माया काशी काञ्ची ह्यवन्तिका। पुरी द्वारावती चैव सप्तैते मोक्षदायिकाः॥ — Garuḍa Purāṇa · the 7 cities that grant mokṣa
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🪷 Today's Bhagavad-Gītā · The Daily Darśana
BG 6.24 · Chapter 6 · ध्यानयोग · Dhyāna-Yoga
सङ्कल्पप्रभवान्कामांस्त्यक्त्वा सर्वानशेषतः।

मनसैवेन्द्रियग्रामं विनियम्य समन्ततः।।6.24।।
"6.24 Renouncing every desire which imagination can conceive, controlling the senses at every point by the power of mind;" — Shri Purohit Swami
→ Enter BG 6.24's full darśana · all 5 English translations + classical ācārya commentaries

📜 तिथि-निर्णय — Calendar Conversions

Lunar Month: Vaiśākha (Vaiśākha Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa)
Vikram Saṁvat: 2056 Nandana
Śaka Saṁvat: 1921 Pramāthi
Bengali Saṁvat: 1406
Malayalam Era: 1175
Nanakshahi: 530
Solar Month: Mīna (Paṅkuṇi)
Ṛtu (Season): Vasanta (Spring)

🌙 पञ्चाङ्ग — Five Limbs (the time-elements)

तिथि (Tithi)Kṛṣṇa Navamī (24/30)
नक्षत्र (Nakshatra)Uttara Āṣāḍhā Pada 4
योग (Yoga)Siddha
करण (Karaṇa)Gara
वार (Vāra)Śanivāra (Saturday)

🪐 सप्त-ग्रह — Seven Grahas (sidereal Lahiri)

GrahaLongitudeRāśiNakshatra
सूर्य Sūrya355.90°MīnaRevatī P3
चन्द्र Candra276.51°MakaraUttara Āṣāḍhā P3
मङ्गल Maṅgala195.16°TulāSvātī P3
बुध Budha329.57°KumbhaPūrva Bhādrapadā P3
गुरु Bṛhaspati349.34°MīnaRevatī P1
शुक्र Śukra33.23°VṛṣabhaKṛttikā P2
शनि Śani10.67°MeṣaAśvinī P4

☀️ Chicago, USA — सूर्य/चन्द्र समय (Solar & Lunar Timings · UTC-6)

Sūryodaya (Sunrise)05:20 UTC-6
Sūryāsta (Sunset)18:25 UTC-6
Madhyāhna (Solar Noon)11:52 UTC-6
Candrodaya (Moonrise)01:48 UTC-6
Candrāsta (Moonset)11:22 UTC-6
Dinamāna (Day Duration)13 Hours 04 Mins 57 Secs
Rātrimāna (Night Duration)10 Hours 55 Mins 03 Secs

✨ शुभ मुहूर्त — Auspicious Timings

Brahma Muhūrta03:35 – 04:27
Prātaḥ Sandhyā04:14 – 05:20
Abhijit Muhūrta11:26 – 12:18
Vijaya Muhūrta14:03 – 14:55
Godhūli Muhūrta18:13 – 18:37
Sāyāhna Sandhyā18:25 – 18:57
Amṛta Kāla18:10 – 19:55
Niśīta Muhūrta23:26 – 00:18

⚠️ अशुभ काल — Inauspicious Timings (avoid)

Rāhu Kāla08:36 – 10:14
Yamaganda13:30 – 15:08
Gulika Kāla05:20 – 06:58
Varjyam05:52 – 06:13
Dur Muhūrta 08:23 – 08:49

🧭 दिशा शूल — Directional + Vasa

Diśā Śūla (avoid travel): East (Pūrva)
Candra Vāsa: South-East
Rāhu Vāsa: East
Ānandādi Yoga: Mṛtyu (Inauspicious)
Tropical Ṛtu: Vasanta (Spring) (tropical)
Vedic Ṛtu: Śiśira (Winter)
Tropical Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa
Vedic Ayana: Uttarāyaṇa

⭐ तारा-चन्द्र बल — Tara & Chandra Bala

Favorable Nakshatras (Tara Bala, 15/27):
Rohiṇī · Mṛgaśirā · Ārdrā · Punarvasu · Puṣya · Hasta · Citrā · Svātī · Viśākhā · Anurādhā · Śravaṇa · Dhaniṣṭhā · Śatabhiṣaj · Pūrva Bhādrapadā · Uttara Bhādrapadā
Favorable Rāśis (Chandra Bala, 6/12):
Mithuna · Karka · Tulā · Vṛścika · Makara · Mīna

🕉️ चौघड़िया — Choghaḍiyā Day Windows

Day-1 Kāla05:20 – 06:58 (inauspicious)
Day-2 Śubha06:58 – 08:36 (auspicious)
Day-3 Roga08:36 – 10:14 (inauspicious)
Day-4 Udveg10:14 – 11:52 (inauspicious)
Day-5 Chala11:52 – 13:30 (neutral)
Day-6 Labha13:30 – 15:08 (auspicious)
Day-7 Amṛta15:08 – 16:46 (auspicious)
Day-8 Kāla16:46 – 18:25 (inauspicious)

Choghaḍiyā Night Windows

Night-1 Labha18:25 – 19:46 (auspicious)
Night-2 Amṛta19:46 – 21:08 (auspicious)
Night-3 Kāla21:08 – 22:30 (inauspicious)
Night-4 Śubha22:30 – 23:52 (auspicious)
Night-5 Roga23:52 – 01:14 (inauspicious)
Night-6 Udveg01:14 – 02:36 (inauspicious)
Night-7 Chala02:36 – 03:58 (neutral)
Night-8 Labha03:58 – 05:20 (auspicious)

🌐 Coordinates

Latitude: 41.8781°
Longitude: -87.6298°
Timezone: UTC+-6

🚶 आज की यात्रा — Today's Walk

7 steps · graha walk
Śanivāra (Saturday) — its presiding graha's walk.
Tapas + endurance + BG 17.14-19.

🌌 Cosmic Time — Where This Moment Sits in the Mahāyuga

These five values anchor today within the Sūrya-Siddhānta time-architecture. Kali Year counts from the Kali-epoch (18 Feb 3102 BCE · midnight Ujjain · when Krishna's mortal-form departed). Ahargaṇa is the day-count since that epoch — the canonical time-coordinate used by every Vedic computation on this substrate. Julian Day is the astronomical universal day-number (continuous · no calendar discontinuities). Ayanāṁśa is the angular offset between sidereal (rāśi-based · the Vedic frame) and tropical (equinox-based) coordinates · currently growing at ~50.29″/year as Earth's axis precesses. Sun-Moon angle determines the tithi (0-360° elongation / 12° per tithi).

Kali Year5100 · Kali-5100
Ahargaṇa (days from Kali epoch)1862813.27 · 5100.2 years since 3102 BCE Ujjain midnight
Julian Day2451278.770833 · universal astronomical day-count
Ayanāṁśa (Lahiri)23.8428° · precession offset · grows ~50.29″/yr
Sun-Moon angle (elongation)283.27° · determines today's tithi (12° = 1 tithi · so 24/30)
🪷 Provenance & Methodology
Substrate:Vidhyamitra Sūrya-SiddhāntaMethod:Sūrya Siddhānta + Bhāskara-II iterative manda + Kerala-school (Mādhava-Nīlakaṇṭha) evection + variation + annual equationTier-2 localization:spherical astronomy + Lahiri ayanāṁśa (23.8428°) · declination 7.72° · EoT -1.61 min · city civil-time localizationLineage:Bhṛgu → Vyāsa → Maitreya → Āryabhaṭa → Brahmagupta → Bhāskara I → Bhāskara II → Mādhava → Parameśvara → Nīlakaṇṭha → Jyeṣṭhadeva → Vidhyamitra Sūrya-Siddhānta substrateAccess:Self-hosted substrate · the deployed website IS the public offering · source not distributed (the bhakta's sole niṣkāma-karma-sevā)Computed for:1999-04-10 (deterministic · request-time stamp removed for cache-friendliness · ETag/304 enabled)