• The Lord establishes what is auspicious and what is inauspicious.
• Calculating auspicious and inauspicious times makes us think, but actually all situations are supposed to be about the Lord, not just what's auspicious and inauspicious for us.

•  Time is Krishna, time is movements and endeavor.
• The Sun has a cycle of 60 years - the 5 vatsanas mentioned x 12 - for each Rashi.
• If one practices brahminical culture properly, Jupiter is always favorable to them.
• Nakshatras are above the Moon, but below the Venus.
• Rahu is below the Sun.
• Sometimes distances of planets from the Earth are given by how quick they move and complete their circles in the zodiac.
• All planets move around Mount Meru every day, but with different speeds through the constellations.
• Planets are moving counter-clockwise, but they are dragged by the wheel of time clockwise.
• In this way Krishna in the form of time controls all, even though the planets are so powerful.

•  The potency of Sun god comes from the Supreme Lord. The form is that of a demigod.
• The Sri sampradaya does not want to do anything with the demigods. The Madhvas respect them.
• The time is very important to understand as a manifestation of the Lord.
• The movement of the stars is the only one that is fixed. All other planets change their motions.
• Without Dhruvaloka being fixed the universe would be like Kolkata traffic.
• By adding 2 extra months in 5 years,  a 6th year begins just as the 1st, so it goes in 5 year circles.
• When 2 full moons occur once in a solar month, an extra month is added.
• Saptarishis pass one nakshatra in 100 years.
• We see what confirms our ideas and beliefs - e.g. the trans-saturnian planets.
• A lunar day may be 19 to 27 hours long.
• Longer and shorter tithis are according to quicker and slower motions of the Sun and Moon.
• The grass grows because of the Sun, but the grain matures due to the Moon.
• 16 kalas, 16 tithis of the Moon, 16 faculties.
• The Moon waxes and wanes, because he got cursed due to his attachment to Rohini.
• Special rays from the Sun nourish each planet. The Moon is nourished by Sushumna.
• Abhijit is in Capricorn between Uttarashadha and Sravana, overlapping them.
• From the Sun to Dhruvaloka is Svarga.
• Below Sun and above earth - Bhuvar.
• Vakra=retrograde motion
• Brahmanas don't worry about past, they deal with the present situation. They don't think, 'Due to what karma have I gotten into this?!' They just deal with the present.
• We can only be in the present if we act according to shastra. That keeps the mind in the present and satisfied.
• Masculine principle has to create the mode of goodness.
• Both the bad and good planetary influences should be used to serve the Lord.
• Time-place-relationship
• Brahman-Paramatma-Bhagavan
• Vraja is the most technical, rasa is the most technical. Mechanics just set the field.
• Lilavati by Bhaskaracarya - treatise on Vedic mathematics - how to get into mathematics and still stay human.
• Surya Siddhanta & Siddhanta Siromani.

• Krishna is everything, but we talk of His manifestations where it's there to the greatest extent.
• Cosmos means the total spiritual and material creation.
• Universe means it's just this one brahmanda.
• Sun is situated in the middle of antariksha between heaven and earth.