Question

What is the difference between Poornima and Amavasya?​

Answer 1

Answer:

The basic difference between Purnima and Amavasya is thatPurnima is considered to be auspicious whereas Amavasya is considered to be inauspicious. It is advised to do meditation on Purnima whereasAmavasya is considered to be the ideal night to perform Tantra Mantra and other demonic acts.

Answer 2

Difference between Poornima and Amavasya

Explanation:

• Poornima is the day that falls in each month where the full moon happens, and it marks the division in each of the month between the 2 lunar fortnights (a period of 2 weeks), and the Moon is aligned exactly (precisely) in a straight line, referred to as a a syzygy (a roughly straight-line configuration of 3 or more celestial bodies in a gravitational system), with the Sun and Earth.
• Amavasya implies the lunar phase of the New moon and it is the dark moon and is when the Moon is within the twelve degrees of angular distance between the Moon and the Sun before conjunction/syzygy