In the Sri Amit Ray Tradition, every moment is considered auspicious when it is properly understood and consciously used. Auspiciousness is not assigned externally by time alone, but arises from awareness, ethical intention, and inner alignment. When attention, breath, and action are harmonized with the present moment, time itself becomes supportive of clarity, healing, and conscious evolution. Thus, the Panchanga is not a tool for avoiding time, but for learning how to inhabit time wisely. You will get the best time to meditate today, and the Brahma Muhurta time today.
The Daily Panchanga is not merely a calendar of dates or astrological markers. In the Sri Amit Ray Tradition, it functions as a refined system of time awareness—a contemplative framework for observing how cosmic rhythms, breath patterns, biological cycles, and states of consciousness interact throughout the day, and how they are connected to your 114 chakras, and the 72000 nadis.
This approach emphasizes awareness over prediction, alignment over control, and inner observation over external ritualism. The Panchanga becomes a mirror of temporal intelligence, helping practitioners attune to subtle shifts in energy, cognition, and physiological readiness.
Time Awareness in the Sri Amit Ray Tradition
Time awareness refers to the conscious recognition that each segment of the day carries distinct qualitative properties. These properties influence attention, emotional tone, breath rhythm, neural readiness, and contemplative depth.
Rather than labeling time as auspicious or inauspicious, the Sri Amit Ray Tradition views time as informational. Awareness of time enhances clarity, ethical action, meditation quality, and self-regulation.
Daily Panchanga (Observational View)
The Daily Panchanga presented here is intended for awareness and reflection. It provides the foundational temporal markers—Tithi, Vara, Nakshatra, Yoga, and Karana—without prescriptive judgments.
The Five Angas of Panchanga
The term Panchanga means “five limbs.” These five components together describe the qualitative pattern of a day. When observed with awareness, they support refined self-observation and inner coherence.
Tithi (Lunar Phase)
Tithi reflects the angular relationship between the Sun and the Moon. Lunar phases correlate with emotional sensitivity, sleep architecture, and attentional modulation. Awareness of Tithi encourages observation of cyclical expansion and contraction in mental and energetic states.
Nakshatra (Lunar Mansion)
Nakshatras divide the lunar path into 27 qualitative segments. In the Sri Amit Ray tradition, Nakshatras are approached as archetypal fields influencing perception, motivation, and subtle neuro-emotional tone.
Yoga (Solar–Lunar Interaction)
Yoga arises from the combined positions of the Sun and Moon. It reflects the coherence or tension between cognitive clarity and emotional processing, analogous to autonomic balance and heart–brain synchronization.
Karana (Half-Tithi Phase)
Karana represents transitional micro-phases of the lunar cycle. These phases are useful for observing subtle shifts in mental momentum, effort, and rest.
Vara (Weekday Rhythm)
Vara corresponds to the seven-day solar rhythm embedded in biological, hormonal, and social cycles. Recognizing this rhythm supports disciplined daily practice and stability.
Breath Awareness and Temporal Intelligence
Breath is the most immediate bridge between time and consciousness. Subtle changes in breath depth, rhythm, and dominance often reflect underlying circadian and ultradian cycles.
Observing the Panchanga alongside breath awareness allows practitioners to notice how inhalation–exhalation patterns shift with lunar days, solar transitions, and diurnal phases.
Relationship with Brahma Muhurta
The pre-dawn period holds special significance due to heightened neural plasticity and minimal sensory interference. This phase is explored in depth in Brahma Muhurta and Neurophysiological Awakening.
Ekadashi, Fasting, and Lunar Time Cycles
Lunar rhythms influence appetite regulation, metabolic efficiency, and cognitive restraint. For a deeper understanding of fasting and time-based self-regulation, see Ekadashi and Sacred Time Cycles.
Swara Yoga and Breath-Based Time Awareness
Swara Yoga is a classical yogic science that observes the flow of breath through the nostrils as an expression of subtle physiological and energetic rhythms. In the Sri Amit Ray tradition, Swara Yoga is approached not as a predictive or action-guiding system, but as a refined method of breath-based self-observation.
When integrated with Panchanga, Swara Yoga offers a micro-level perspective on time awareness. While Panchanga reflects macro-temporal patterns shaped by lunar and solar movements, Swara Yoga reveals how these patterns may be mirrored internally through variations in breath dominance, rhythm, and pause.
Rather than prescribing activities based on nostril flow, practitioners are encouraged to simply observe correlations between breath patterns, attention, emotional tone, and inner stability. This observation deepens sensitivity to subtle time cycles without reinforcing deterministic beliefs.
From a neurophysiological perspective, such breath awareness supports autonomic balance, vagal tone regulation, and coherence between cortical attention networks and limbic processing. These effects contribute to emotional regulation and meditative depth.
In relation to the 72,000 Nadis, Swara awareness refines sensitivity to subtle flow dynamics within the energetic network. Stabilized breath observation also supports gradual harmonization across the 114 Chakras, particularly those involved in perception, integration, and higher cognitive-emotional coherence.
Within this framework, Swara Yoga serves as a contemplative lens—enhancing awareness of how time is embodied through breath—rather than as a system for prediction, control, or outcome optimization.
Panchanga as a Support for Meditation Practice
Panchanga is not used here to dictate actions or promise outcomes. It serves as a reflective framework for noticing how awareness, breath, and inner stability shift across time.
Over sustained practice, this observation cultivates non-reactivity, energetic balance, and progressive integration across mind, body, and subtle systems.
Fasting and Rhythmic Metabolism
Awareness of time-quality also informs modern approaches to fasting, autophagy, and metabolic renewal. These connections are explored further in Fasting and Rhythmic Metabolism.
Scientific Perspectives on Time and Breath
Modern chronobiology confirms that human cognition, emotion, and physiology are governed by internal timing systems synchronized with environmental cycles.
Czeisler, C. A., & Buxton, O. M. (2017). The human circadian timing system and sleep–wake regulation. In Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine. Elsevier.
Research on breath regulation further demonstrates the link between respiratory rhythms and autonomic balance.
Zaccaro, A., Piarulli, A., Laurino, M., et al. (2018). How breath-control can change your life: A systematic review on psychophysiological correlates of slow breathing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 353.
Editorial Perspective
This Daily Panchanga is offered as an educational and contemplative resource. It does not provide predictions, guarantees, or prescriptions. Its purpose is to support awareness, ethical living, and inner clarity through respectful engagement with time.
Calculated using Lahiri Ayanamsa as preferred by Sri Amit Ray, with special adjustments for 114-chakra meditation windows.