AstroLite vs Bahá’í Today

“AstroLite” helps keep track of days for Vedic rituals, fast, feast and festivals. This is a basic version of AstroPro published already. While AstroPro is mainly for amateurs and professionals in Vedic astrology, AstroLite is for general public those who are interested in following Vedic rituals in day-to-day life. Users can set any major city around the world and work with different key menu categories with its features discussed as follows. Home Screen: This provides current calendar date with Sunrise, Sunset, day’s star with its transition time, lunar month, tithi and year followed by any major festival events for the given city of choice. Users can navigate through days and months for the current year that gives corresponding Vedic almanac details as well as charts for planetary positions. Charts can be displayed under South or North Indian formats. One can quickly switch between these chart formats using the tool bar button as shown in the screen shots. Almanac: This section gives the almanac details for any given month that enables the user to quickly glance through the list of important festivals, days for rituals etc. This Vedic calendar is further supplemented with ephemeris data and table is provided in a separate section. This enables users to cast their own charts for any specific day and time of the month in the given year. In addition users also can generate a comprehensive list of festivals and important lunar days for the given year and city that helps users to plan respective Vedic ritual ahead of time. Help Help file provides a Vedic almanac glossary with brief writing on various keywords, terminology and legend used in different sections of this app. It is quite educational and people can quickly comprehend its significance with different computational logic used for the purpose. AstroLite is published in response to requests received and to help people living abroad to keep track of important days for Vedic rituals. We dedicate this app as a tribute to our late parents. With Best Compliments from Kaup Shenoy Associates.

In a letter dated 10 July 2014, the Universal House of Justice called upon all Baha’is to adopt the Badi Calendar. According to the House “The adoption of a new calendar in each dispensation is a symbol of the power of Divine Revelation to reshape human perception of material, social, and spiritual reality. Through it, sacred moments are distinguished, humanity’s place in time and space reimagined, and the rhythm of life recast. Next Naw-Rúz will mark yet another historic step in the manifestation of the unity of the people of Bahá and the unfoldment of Bahá’u’lláh’s World Order.” This app was developed to help transition our daily lives and conception of date/time from the Western Gregorian calendar to the Badi Calendar. You can read more here http://universalhouseofjustice.bahai.org/activities-bahai-community/20140710_001 Features: - Today view with a calendar that shows the week day names along with Sunset times for the start and end of each day. - Upcoming Events view which shows all the events that are coming up along with - If work should be suspended or not - Suggested Observance times - And a quote from the writings - Fasting view that shows the date along with the Sunrise and Sunset times for each day of the Fast - Settings view that lets you control where your location is and if you prefer to see times using the 24 hour clock We hope that you find this app useful and if you have any thoughts or suggestions, please don't hesitate to contact us!