Suba Aluth Aurudak Wewa at Ayurveda Shunyata Villa!
The Ayurveda Shunyata Villa team sends you warm New Year greetings from Sri Lanka! Find out how we celebrated exactly the beginning of the solar year astrologically: with oil lamps, overcooked milk, traditional Kiribath and the blessed visit of a Buddhist monk.
Double stitching lasts better: The team of Ayurveda Shunyata Villa Wishes you all for the second time 'Suba Aluth Aurudak Wewa', happy and happy year!
'Every spring has the magic of the beginning... '. In this sense, we flow into our springtime, so to speak. Easter was celebrated in Germany, and here in Sri Lanka we celebrated the New Year on April 13 and 14!
The meaning of this festival is somewhat comparable to our Christmas: Families get together, they celebrate, eat, give each other presents, and of course many different traditions and rituals are lived out.
The question is why a new year starts here in Sri Lanka in the middle of “our” year. For us islanders, a start in mid-April new solar year. This is approximately equivalent to Start of spring in our understanding. It shows that as the sun moves, a new cycle of sowing, ripening and harvesting begins, which is of course immensely important in an agricultural country such as Sri Lanka. The New Year period in Sri Lanka therefore marks the beginning of a new solar cycle.
We also celebrated the New Year ritually with our guests! What did that look like?
The start of the new solar year was calculated with astrological accuracy on 14/04 at 13:47pm. At 1:47 PM do we have the oil lamp sparked, and in a new pot the symbolic first Boiled milk or “overcooked”...
The overcooked milk stands for the common desire for well-being and happiness for all the people who visit this place as guests or live here
be allowed to work. Die first meal In the new year, then from 2:42 p.m. So lunch dessert was moved to the afternoon and there were traditional Kiribath (rice pudding) and delicious herbal tea.
The following day — again calculated astrologically by 9:06 in the morning — a Buddhist monk visited us, as well as the traditional oil anointing did. Oil anointing is one of the main New Year traditions in Sri Lanka. This will make the Blessing for health expressed.
New Year is the time of symbolic new beginnings, new opportunities and hope. A time of healing and forgiveness.
With that in mind, dear friends of Shunyata Villa out there...
We wish you a wonderful time!
The Ayurveda Shunyata Villa team