 post-soul stars after Sankaranthi, the first full Monday is called as Taipusan. That which brings you victory, he got the fame of being the greatest warrior ever. Absolutely fail in his mission, but he's a success for us. Today is referred to as Taipusan in the Tamil culture, which is considered to be the most effervescent of the various spiritual events that this culture is full of. Literally every day of the 365 days are mocked for different aspects of life. But this day, which is the first Pardami or the full Monday, post-soul stars after Sankaranthi, the first full Monday is called as Taipusan, largely in the country, in the larger part of the country, it is known as the Dhanya Pardami, Dhanya means it is the full moon of fulfillment. In many ways, because of the nature of what happens on this planet in relationship with the sun, this is considered to be the most generous full moon of the year. When I say generous, one who knows how to get the best out of life, one who is seeing how to make this life in the best possible way. One will attain to maximum amount of or one will reap maximum harvest at this time, so it's called as Dhanya Pardami, the full moon of fulfillment. The moon has already come up in a glorious way. There are many things connected with this. This is considered also in southern India largely, courageous. People always saw this as a day to develop instruments of victory, that which brings you victory success in material world, in the emotional world and in the spiritual world. This is the day when one haunts their instruments which will bring success or victory in these different dimensions. The legend goes out to say that it is on this day that Parvati gave the whale or the sphere to Skanda who is known as Muruga in the south. He is Skanda, he is Kumara, he is Subramanya and his Muruga, a different geography is called him differently, but started as Skanda. So with this instrument or with this weapon of a sphere, he got the fame of being the greatest warrior ever. What across the subcontinent? It is said he went beyond the present borders of what we call as Bharat because his name reverberated in the Persian culture as Skanda. When further north up into Central Asia and become Skanda and even today the word slightly mispronounced is used as Skanda, somebody who is victorious over everybody who becomes an emperor of all the rulers, but never held a kingdom. He only fought battles because he was committed to and highlighting injustice. The boy was angry and when somebody of immense capabilities and hugely blessed becomes angry, so it happens and wherever he thought there is injustice, he started killing. Well, literally his adolescence and youth as a youth, he largely killed people. We don't know how many, but across the subcontinent he did and he also went slightly out. Then he realized what is justice and what is injustice is not always an absolute. It's a question of perspective most of the time. Then he realized that somewhere deep inside the fury of who he was is seeking revenge in the form of justice. When you go after somebody thinking you will serve justice, they will only experience it as revenge. So I'm not trying to say there is no justice at all, but there isn't. So that is Skanda's story, but he got his weapon of instrument according to the legend on this day. That is why he was so successful in his mission. Well, ultimately he came to realization that his mission was not right, but that is also considered victory in this culture. Anywhere else he would be rated as a failure because he failed in his mission. But in this culture, which is not of straight lines, we see this as a success because he realized. In his activity in the world he failed, but he realized we hold that, we hold that as the greatest success, not material things. If he had listed this many victories and if his mission was complete, only then an intellectually constipated society would consider him a success. But here he failed, absolutely failed in his mission, but he's a success for us. This is a day which is considered as the best day to start one's pilgrimage. Pilgrimage always meant a journey in which you'll obliterate yourself. Once again, our idea of victory is we are obliterated. Our idea of victory is not piling up people and sitting on top of their heads. Our idea of victory is to obliterate ourselves, to dissolve ourselves because this is a land of devotion. The object of devotion is only dissolution. We may use another object as a means to dissolve, but the fundamental objective is to dissolve. Well, does it mean to say this is a culture committed to failure? No, because within the framework of one's intellect, if one sits there, one sits here, one sits here, you would think he is low, this is medium, this is high. But we always understood in this culture the planet is round and it's spinning. Your ideas of what is low, what is medium, what is high, you're totally messed up in your head. You don't have a larger perspective of life. You're counting the steps that you climbed because you're horribly identified with a little bit of earth that you gathered in the form of your flesh and bone. Because of that, your perspective is all messed up. This is a day where people start a filigrimage, particularly in Tamil Nadu because filigrimage means we have started the process to dissolve ourselves. We're ourselves down in every possible way. People walk hundreds of miles, there is still a vibrant culture of filigrimage here that people walk hundreds of miles to get to the… generally to the Murugan temple in Tamil Nadu. But various kinds happening across southern India because according to the position of the planet we have recognized, whatever we do within ourselves for our inner well-being finds, results much more easily during this time. As I said, this is a generous or a benevolent time.