Chitra Pournami
Pournami (poornima / full moon) occuring in the month of Chithirai (chaitra) is celebrated as Chitra pournami. This day is also considered special for chitragupta. Chitragupta is executive of yama who takes care of accounting of papam-punyam (papa-punya / roughly translated to bad and good deeds). It is believed that praying or performing poojas to chitragupta will help one get a balance of papa-punyam.
The chitra pournami day, in fact the night, is considered very auaspicious and very powerful by spiritual seekers. Girivalam (giri pradakshina / circumambulation) around tiruvannamali temple is very famous on this day. Generally any pournami day is preferred for girivalam. Chitra pournami is special among all pourmais and lot of people prefer to go around the tiruvannamalai hill on this night.
Pournami being the brightest of all nights, moon's energy received on earth on pournami night is very high. It is also said that moon is very close to the earth on chithra pournami night, compared to other pournamis. A tradition is followed in tamil households to have dinner in the moonlight near river or atleast house terrace, to receive maximum energy from moon. This is popularly known as nila choru in tamil. Generally people make kalandha saadham (chitrannam / lemon rice, pulihora, curd rice) and go as a family to river bank or house terrace and enjoy their dinner in moonlight. People following natural medication, ayurveda, siddha say that women's uterus receives power from moon on this night.
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