Happy Holi to all of you! Let us bask into the warmth of this colourful festival...
The Holi Fire is a purifier indeed, it destroys all the Viruses, Corona being the latest threat to human beings.
When we runafter gold and wealth, blinded by their shine; the principles and ethics in life have no value.
Also when we try to harm a nice individual, by hurting their feelings, exploiting them, then within us, inside, we keep burning. There are infinite such negative thoughts and ideas that we harbour and these are like our inner viruses.
Therefore for destroying these viruses, this Holi festival is celebrated in our Indian culture. All festivals which are part of the Indian traditions, are nothing but therapeutic measures. There is no religiousness, there is nothing like this that it should be performed for pleasing the Lord, it is only to be done for our own benefit. That which makes our lives happier, and keeps our health optimum.
Therefore when we light this Holi fire, what do we do?
We use these leaves of castor plant, they are burnt, together come the branches with the mango leaves, these are all burned together with the cow dung cakes. And now the grains have been already harvested from the fields so the remaining grass, hay etc, is also burnt together. So in this Holi fire, only the unwanted damaging things get burnt, the good objects are not burnt. So the hatred that we reap against others, the un-necessary competition that we create, the desire to deceit others, all these negativities are burnt off.
What we do here, we tell everyone that all your mistakes, those with whom you wish to fight, write all these fights and negative thoughts on a piece of paper, and during this festival , burn it in the fire and then decide that from today, we have no hard or hateful feelings towards anyone.
We will live together with love for each other. In this way the Holi is a festival of great importance. But this harassment created by the virus this year, which is huge, it becomes essential to burn the Holi-fire in every home. That time what had happened was that when the people came to know that
Since ancient time till today there a tradition to make Dhoop - herbal smoke of various herbs and the resin(gum) from tree in the house and also at public places.
Once all the impurities are burnt, to celebrate and enjoy this, comes the festival of colours called Ranga(colur)-panchami. The positive colours of life can be seen now only. When we are worried or we are afraid, how can we see or experience any colour? Life is filled with all colours like the seven-coloured rainbow and is full of happiness and joy. In this Holi celebrations with colours, applying colours on each other is a symbol of telling others that life is full of colours.
These colours need to be natural. They can be prepared from flowers of Hibiscus, Marigold etc. Petals of roses can be directly thrown on each other to celebrate Rangapanchami. To prepare yellow colour, turmeric can be used.
See here, this colour, all have been made naturally. This has been made from beetroot. This from turmeric.
In this way we can make all natural colours. Please do not use any chemical colors. Also use clean water for making colour, do not use dirty or stagnated water to play this colourful Holi.
On this day in the afternoon and also afterwards in this season one can take a special drink. To make this drink, take a glass of water, crush few mango flowers, add sandalwood paste, sugar and mix together. This sherbet is beneficial to maintain health in this season and enhance the joy of Holi.
The upcoming Vasant Rutu - Spring is going to fill your life with colours and help you to enjoy this life.
I wish you all best wishes for Holi and Ranga-panchami .
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