April
Motto:
Every April God rewrites the Book of Genesis.
Phenomena:
APRIL 2024
2 Moon’s last quarter
3 Venus conjunction Neptune
8 New Moon, total eclipse of Sun
10 Mars conjunction Saturn
11 Sun conjunction Mercury
15 Moon’ first quarter
19 Mercury conjunction Venus
20 Sun enters Taurus
21 Sun square Pluto, Jupiter conjunction Uranus
23 Full Moon
29 Mars conjuction Neptune
Many years ago:
April 1
- April Fools' Day.
- Sergey Rachmaninoff, a great piano virtuoso was born this day in 1873.
April 3
- Marlon Brando was born this day in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1924.
- Kolokotronis: Theodoros Kolokotronis (born 3 April 1770) was a Greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire.
April 4
- Karajan: Herbert von Karajan, born this day in 1908, was an Austrian orchestra and opera conductor. He is generally considered to have been one of the greatest conductors of all time, and he was a dominant figure in European classical music from the 1960s until his death. The Karajans were of Greek ancestry.
April 6
- Raphael: Born this day in 1483, Raphael was Italian master painter and architect, whose work is admired for clarity of form and ease of composition and who is best known for his Madonnas and large figure compositions in the Vatican.
- Olympics Games: Pierre, baron de Coubertin, a founder of the International Olympic Committee and its president from 1896 to 1925, realized his goal of reviving the Olympics when the first modern Games opened in Athens this day in 1896.
- Stanislas de Guaita: Stanislas de Guaita (born: 6 April 1861) was a French poet based in Paris, an expert on esoterism and European mysticism, and an active member of the Rosicrucian Order. He was an expert on magic and occultism.
April 7
- Ravi Shankar: Indian musician Ravi Shankar, a sitar virtuoso and composer who founded the National Orchestra of India and who was influential in stimulating Western appreciation of classical Hindustani music, was born this day in 1920.
- Fourier: François Marie Charles Fourier, (born 7 April 1772 in Besancon, France) was a French philosopher. An influential thinker, some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have become main currents in modern society. Fourier is, for instance, credited with having originated the word feminism in 1837. Fourier's views inspired the founding of the community of Utopia, as well as several other communities within the United States of America.
April 8
- Celebration of the Buddha's birth: On this day practitioners of the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism, especially those in Japan, celebrate the birth of the Buddha, who lived in India sometime between the 6th and 5th centuries BCE and founded Buddhism.
April 10
- Max von Sydow: Swedish actor Max von Sydow, perhaps best known for his dour, brooding characterizations in films directed by Ingmar Bergman and whose film career spanned more than half a century, was born this day in 1929.
- Hahnemann: Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (born 10 April 1755) was a German physician, best known for creating a system of alternative medicine called Homeopathy. Hahnemann wrote a number of books, essays, and letters on the homeopathic method, chemistry, and general medicine: The Organon of the Healing Art, the first systematic treatise and containing all his detailed instructions on the subject.
April 12
- Gagarin: This day in 1961 Russian cosmonaut Yury Alekseyevich Gagarin became the first human in outer space.
- Mahāvīra: Vardhamāna Mahāvīra (599–527 BCE) is the name most commonly used to refer to the Indian sage who was one of the major propagators of Jainism. According to Jain tradition, he was the 24th and the last Tirthankara. He was born on the 13th day under the rising moon of Chaitra (12 April 599 BC).
April 13
- Jefferson: Born this day in 1743, Thomas Jefferson was the third U.S. president, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, an influential political philosopher, and the founder and architect of the University of Virginia.
April 15
- Leonardo da Vinci: Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal and whose Last Supper and Mona Lisa are widely influential paintings, was born this day in 1452.
- Roerich Pact: Roerich Pact is a treaty on Protection of Artistic and Scientific Institutions and Historic Monuments. The most important idea of the Roerich Pact is the legal recognition that the defense of cultural objects is more important than military defense, and the protection of culture always has precedence over any military necessity.
- Nanak: Guru Nanak ( born 15 April 1469) was the founder of the religion of Sikhism and the first of the eleven Sikh Gurus, the eleventh being the living Guru, Guru Granth Sahib.
April 16
- Ustinov: English actor, director, playwright, and humanitarian sir Peter Ustinov, who was born this day in 1921, made more than 70 films in Rome, Hollywood, and London during an acclaimed career that spanned some six decades.
April 17
- Nisargadatta Maharaj (born April 17, 1897) was an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita (Non dualism), and a Guru, belonging to the Inchgiri branch of the Navnath Sampradaya. One of the 20th century's exponents of the school of Advaita Vedanta philosophy, Nisargadatta, with his direct and minimalistic explanation of non-dualism, is considered the most famous teacher of Advaita since Ramana Maharshi.
April 21
- Rome: Rome founded by Romulus in April 21 753 BC.
April 22
- First Earth Day: First celebrated on this day in 1970 in the U.S., Earth Day — founded by American politician and conservationist Gaylord Anton Nelson — helped spark the environmental movement and quickly grew into an international event.
- Kant: Immanuel Kant (April 22 1724) was a German philosopher from Konigsberg in Prussia who researched, lectured and wrote on philosophy during the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century.
April 23
- Max Planck: German physicist Max Planck, who originated quantum theory, was born in Kiel. Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck (born April 23, 1858) was a German theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.
April 25
- Vesak Festival: This day of Buddha blessing is preserved in the East as a general holiday and in the West many thousands also keep it as a day of spiritual remembrance.
- Pauli: Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (born 25 April 1900) was an Austrian theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics. In 1945, after being nominated by Albert Einstein, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his "decisive contribution through his discovery of a new law of Nature, the exclusion principle or Pauli principle," involving spin theory, underpinning the structure of matter and the whole of chemistry.
- Hubble Telescope: The Hubble Space Telescope, a sophisticated optical observatory built in the United States under the supervision of NASA, was placed into operation this day in 1990 by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery.
April 26
- Shakespeare: William Shakespeare (born 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist. His extant works consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
- Marcus Aurelius: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (born April 26, 121 CE), was Roman emperor from 161 to 180. He was the last of the Five Good Emperors, and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers. Marcus Aurelius' Stoic tome Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a philosophy of service and duty, describing how to find and preserve equanimity in the midst of conflict by following nature as a source of guidance and inspiration.
- Muhammad: Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim (born c. April 26 570) was a religious leader from Mecca who unified Arabia into a single religious polity under Islam. He is believed by Muslims and Baha’is to be a messenger and prophet of God and, by most Muslims, the last prophet sent by God for mankind. Non-Muslims regard Muhammad as the founder of Islam.
1. He who leaves the society of fool men, cleaves unto the wise.
2. The self is hidden in all beings, and does not shine forth; but it is seen by subtle seers, through their sharp and subtle intellect.
3. Patience leads to power; but the eagerness in greed leads to loss.
4. Three things make a poor man rich: courtesy, consideration for others, and the avoidance of suspicion.
5. When trust is gone, misfortune comes in; when confidence is dead, revenge is born; and when treachery appears, all blessings fly away.
6. The world exists by cause; all things exist by cause; and beings are bound by cause, even as the rolling cart-wheel by the pin of an axle-tree.
7. The living soul is not woman, nor man, nor neuter; whatever body it takes, with that it is joined only.
8. He ho wishes to reach Buddhahood, and aspires to the knowledge of the Self-born, must honor those who keep this doctrine.
9. As the spider moving upward by his thread gains free space, thus also he who undertakes moving upward by the known word OM, gains independence.
10. The wheel of sacrifice has Love for its nave, Action for its tire, and Brotherhood for its spokes.
11. Man consists of desires. And as is his desire, so is his will; and as is his ill, so is his deed; and whatever deed he does, that he will reap.
12. A stone becomes a plant; a plant a beast; the beast a man; a man a Spirit; and the Spirit — God.
13. There exists no spot on the earth, or in the sky, or in the sea, neither is there any in the mountain-clefts, where an evil deed does not bring trouble to the doer.
14. Whoever, not being a sanctified person, pretends to be a Saint, he is indeed the lowest of all men, the thief in all worlds, including that of Brahma.
15. If a man consorting with me (Buddha) does not conform his life to my commandments, what benefit will ten thousand precepts be to him?
16. He who smites will be smitten; he who shows rancor will find rancor; so, from reviling cometh reviling, and to him who is angered comes anger.
17. "He abused me, he reviled me, he beat me, he subdued me"; he who keeps this in mind, and who feels resentment, will find no peace.
18. Like a beautiful flower, full of color, but without scent, are the fine but fruitless words of him who does not act accordingly.
19. When your mind shall have crossed beyond the taint of delusion, then will you become indifferent to all that you have heard or will hear.
20. The wise guard the home of nature's order; they assume excellent forms in secret.
21. If thou losest all, and gettest wisdom by it, thy loss is thy gain.
22. Empty thy mind of evil, but fill it with good.
23. Great works need no great strength, but perseverance.
24. Sleep is but birth into the land of Memory; birth but a sleep in the oblivion of the Past.
25. To forgive without forgetting, is again to reproach the wrong-doer every time the act comes back to us.
26. Every man contains within himself the potentiality of immortality, equilibrated by the power of choice.
27. He who lives in one color of the rainbow is blind to the rest. Live in the light diffused through the entire arc, and you will know it all.
28. Every time the believer pronounces the word OM, he renews the allegiance to the divine potentiality enshrined within the Soul.
29. People talk of the Devil. Every man has seen him; he is in every sinful heart.
30. The Higher Self knows that highest home of Brahman, which contains all and shines so bright. The wise who without desiring happiness worship that SELF, are not born again.
