[Advaita-l] Can Vishnu Sahasranama stotram be chanted after sunset?

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Thank you for the response, Bhaskar ji and Kameswara Rao ji

On Tue 13 Aug, 2019, 12:20 PM Bhaskar YR via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> praNAms
> Hare Krishna
>
> I had one more question. Can we say Nakshatra Sukta in the day time?
> Nakshatras are not visible in day time. Should we chant Nakshatra Mantras
> in the night only?
>
> >  When we are doing the nakshatra shanti like dhanishtAdi paNchaka,
> mUlAnakshatra janana shanti, tripAdi nakshatra maraNa shanti, janma
> nakshatra janana shanti  etc. we do the shanti karma during day time only.
> And nakshatra sUkta is part of udaka shanti mantra-s as well, we do chant
> this mantra being the part of the udaka shanti.  Normally we chant US
> mantra-s during evening / night time only as a part of saMskAra but in US
> we have bhAgya sUkta (which is popularly known as prAtaH sUkta) and
> mantra-s related to sUrya (udyutyaM jAta vedasaM devaM vahaNti ketavaH etc.
> as yajurvedeeya saura sUkta)  etc. So, I don’t think nakshatra sUkta to be
> chanted only at night times.
>
> What about Nava Graha Mantras? Except Aditya all Grahas are fully visible
> in the night only or before sunrise or after sunset.
>
> > Like above, the mantra-s pertaining to graha-s being chanted as a part
> of vedic ritual.  Navagraha shanti, sandhi shanti (shukrAditya, kuja-rAhu
> sandhi shanti etc. )we do at day time only and we do chant these mantra-s
> and do japa of these mantra-s in day time only.  BTW adhidevata -
> pratyadhidevata-s are different for different graha-s, for sUrya graha agni
> and rudra are adhi & pratyadhi devata-s.  We do the AvAhana to
> corresponding dhAnya, kalasha, yantra & mandala during day time only
> without bothering whether it is visible or not during day time 😊
>
> Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
> bhaskar
>
>
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