Letter # 20: "Monday"

It's Monday. The first day of the week.
In the Biblical account this is what happened on the first "day" :Genesis1:3-5 "And God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light 'day,' and the darkness he called 'night.' And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day." The key phrase for me in this verse is "the light was good". Everything else created on the other days was also "good". Then why do we despair? Why are people driven to suicide? Click the link for some answers: suicide.
Now let's get back Monday. In Genesis1.16 it says that God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. The "lesser light" is the moon. Monday is named after the the moon [O.E. monandæg "day of the moon," from mona (gen. monan) + dæg (day)]. The crescent of the moon is incorporated into Islamic symbolism: "When he saw the moon rising in splendour, he said, 'This is my Lord, this is the greatest.'" Holy Koran 6:77 p95 (Translation by SV Mir Ahmed Ali). In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna says, "I enter into each planet, and by My energy they stay in orbit. I become the moon and thereby supply the juice of life to all vegetables." [Chapter 15 "Yoga of the Supreme Person" Text 13] I find it awe inspiring that the rays of the moon, shining down in the summer and fall, enhance the juiciness of vegetables. Yes. It's Monday, "moon day", the First Day, and it was "good", and let's make it good now, for ourselves and for those that are in despair.


God Bless; Allah Hu Akbar; May The Forces Of The Universe Bring You Harmony; Hare Krishna; Radha-Swami; and Nanak Naam Chardi Kala Tere Bhane Sarbat Dha Bhalla.

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References: "The Holy Bible" Online version; "The Koran" as translated by SV Mir Ahmed Ali 2005 ISBN 0-9761870-0-0); "The Bhagavad Gita As it Is" as translated by Srila Prabhupada ISBN 0-89213-268-X; The Srimad Bhagavatum as translated by Srila Prabhupada ISBN0-89213-259-0; "I Am That. Talks With Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj” ISBN 0-89386-022-0; The Dhammapada ISBN-10:1-84483-344-5; The Sacred Sukhmani ISBN 81-7205-098-4; Wikipedia.