Amavasya at Home — A Simple New-Moon Evening Practice

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How to Use • A simple once-a-month Amāvasyā evening you can keep at home • Find the new-moon tithi for your city, light on the dark night, a short optional remembrance or silence, and a clean close • Choose a 5-, 10-, or 20-minute path; all are complete • Missed a cycle? Keep the next one — no catching up, no guilt Find Amāvasyā • Open your city-set panchang; find when Amāvasyā begins and ends locally • No universal clock times — timing follows your city • Deeper five-limb literacy lives in Read the Panchang; this book only reminds how to spot the night Evening Sequence • Arrive at a quiet home spot • Optional short Form A–style intention (fuller forms live in A Simple Sankalpa) • Light a lamp, LED, or sit with soft room light when open flame is not safe • Optional simple offer; optional short remembrance (name, silence, or family custom) • Sound or silence: Om, a short family evening line, or quiet — silence is complete • Close cleanly; prasāda or break-fast if your family keeps it 6-Cycle Return • Six Amāvasyā evening returns (~half a year of monthly practice) • Mid check-in and a forever slot after the tracked cycles • Count returns, not streaks Guards • Not a śrāddha / tarpaṇa / pitṛ handbook — follow family, elder, or priest for ancestor rites • Not a fear or remedy book — dark night is when lamps matter; no graha / doṣa scare language • Diwali Kartik Amāvasyā / Lakṣmī Puja → Light the Lamp; ordinary months → this book • Not a Pradoṣa / trayodaśī twin — that lane is Pradosh at Home (different tithi, different evening) • Fasting optional; health and family first • Flame safety on every lighting page; LED / no-flame alternatives honest Format: 56-page PDF, US Letter, digital download. Offered for spiritual, cultural and educational purposes. It makes no promises of particular outcomes.