Dawn of New Year brings fresh thoughts, feelings – President
May the traditional Sinhala and Tamil New Year that has dawned be one that brings peace, joy and prosperity to all, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in a New Year message.
The message: “ The traditional New Year is a truly great national festival that shows the remarkable bonds between nature and human kind. The dawn of this New Year brings fresh thoughts and feelings to our hearts.
“It paves the way to look at our lives and society with renewed determination and courage. The New Year becomes more meaningful through the embellishment of friendship and unity. Therefore, it is best if every step is taken to build good relations and cooperation with each other during this season of festivity.
“The observance of the many important traditions associated with the New Year strengthens great unity and understanding between family and village. Such unity is a great encouragement to solidarity for national prosperity. As the country moves towards prosperity, the observances of these traditions by all at the auspicious hours would bring great blessings. I, therefore, call upon you all to pay due importance to the observance of the New Year traditions. “ I express my sincere gratitude to the members of the Armed Forces, the Police and Civil Defence Corps and all others who carry out their official duties during this period of festivity.
“ I wish you all a happy New Year.”
Source: Government News Portal
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sinhala and tamil religion seems to be the same like wise they are celebrating the festivals simultaneously.They believe in gods they are same and made of clays, so all hindu’s and sinhalese are same.that means they fight between them, that is the truth.
Respected Sir
WISH A HAPPY AND PEACEFUL SINHALA AND TAMIL NEW YEAR 2012
what a great person,we real srilankan tamil thankfull to you…having brought the peace to our nature and we can celebrat together our happy new year.thank you mr.president and god bless to our small land…..
Where did the sinhala new year come from? Is it identified in Buddhist philosophy?
His Excellency president,
Very happy new year !
But you are very silent about the antiques lost in our the museum.
Loosing our history is very serious problem same as LTTE and separating the country.
How do you encourage investigations for finding them ?
We citizens expect you command Sri Lanka police to find anyhow them.
Theruwan Saranai
Ashiq/Anthony…!
Neither Sinhala, tamil religions are same nor their views of god are same.!
Sinhala/tamil new year based on & coming from the eastern Astrology..! It’s not a concept of religion but the applying of astrology while being religious..!
Thank you Amden for your brilliant explanation. Could you please educate us on why it occurs in mid April and the astrological significance of this event? Is it related positions of the Sun or the Moon or any other planet?
Yes Anthony..
You know that Earth is circling around the Sun spending an year. Eastern astrology measures that circle begining from April at this moment & celibarate as it is the begining of a new year. Western astro measures it from January & they celibarate as it is the begining of a new year.
Meanwhile from Earth it seems that Sun going around the Earth though actually Earth goes around the Sun. So the views of Sun from the Earth during the circle of year are in deferent places.
That duration circule of year has divided in to 12 parts called as ’12 sun signs’ in both east/west astrology.
So we celibarate new year using the very accurate moment when the Sun enters into the 1st part/sign of next circle of year by calculating the time according to eastern astro.
Westerns here aren’t thinking of the accurate day or ‘moment’ which Sun enters into new part/sign of circle in their astro but celibarate at the 1st ‘day’ in January which is begining of 1st part/sign of the new year circle according to western astro.
Lovely Amden, you are a legend; extremely knowledgeable and your willingness to share that knowledge is greatly appreciated. Thank you Amden.