Holi is a wonderful festival. It provides us an opportunity to shed all our inhibitions and more than that all our pretensions and acknowledge the fact of being a human - a human with all his / her weaknesses and follies.
In the everyday life we are terribly busy being a parent, a daughter, a spouse, a breadwinner, a homemaker, a boss, an employee, a winner, a loser, a persecuted one, a persecutor, intelligent, smart, worldly wise et al. We hardly have the time to be our own selves, our own selves with all the social programming set aside. Holi provides the opportunity to do so. Holi is the time when we celebrate being a fool, a weakling, a lout and even lewd. It is time to see ourselves and others as they really are and celebrate the fact instead of feeling bad about it.
And since everyone is going to be so vulnerable, the only rule that we need observe during the festival is that we shall not exploit that vulnerability and hurt any one. With this rule firmly in place, Holi is an occasion to get rid of all burdens, negative emotions and look at the multi-hued world around us with the wonder and joy that it always wanted to elicit in us.
It is a pity to find that many of the roles and the associated social pecking order, do creep into the festival and protocols emerge that detract from the free spirit of the festival. Let the slogan for this Holi be LET GO!
May Holi lead to brilliance of self-realization and be filled with joy. Here is a beautiful bhajan saying that the Lord was alone and wanted to experience the joy of being many and so he manifested himself in multitudinous forms for a grand Holi! Enjoy. Holi hai !!!
PS - Have you noticed that Holi day is always a Holiday!! :D :D
In the everyday life we are terribly busy being a parent, a daughter, a spouse, a breadwinner, a homemaker, a boss, an employee, a winner, a loser, a persecuted one, a persecutor, intelligent, smart, worldly wise et al. We hardly have the time to be our own selves, our own selves with all the social programming set aside. Holi provides the opportunity to do so. Holi is the time when we celebrate being a fool, a weakling, a lout and even lewd. It is time to see ourselves and others as they really are and celebrate the fact instead of feeling bad about it.
And since everyone is going to be so vulnerable, the only rule that we need observe during the festival is that we shall not exploit that vulnerability and hurt any one. With this rule firmly in place, Holi is an occasion to get rid of all burdens, negative emotions and look at the multi-hued world around us with the wonder and joy that it always wanted to elicit in us.
It is a pity to find that many of the roles and the associated social pecking order, do creep into the festival and protocols emerge that detract from the free spirit of the festival. Let the slogan for this Holi be LET GO!
May Holi lead to brilliance of self-realization and be filled with joy. Here is a beautiful bhajan saying that the Lord was alone and wanted to experience the joy of being many and so he manifested himself in multitudinous forms for a grand Holi! Enjoy. Holi hai !!!
PS - Have you noticed that Holi day is always a Holiday!! :D :D
Wonderful lines
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