This was the last day of Holi. As I told yesterday there was the fire ceremony last night and today in the morning everyone started from their home equipped with colour powder visiting all friends and relatives in the town, putting colour on older people’s feet and on friends’ faces. Everyone is out meeting and greeting others. It is the sense of this festival. Even if there was any issue, problem or anger in between two people, this will be dissolved in this festive atmosphere and this love and embrace of friends. This festival brings hearts together.
Lots of sweets are distributed, too. The colour madness reaches a climax and suddenly at two o’clock, everything will be over. All colour will stop, everyone will go home, clean the whole house and themselves and then dress up with new clothes. In the evening they go out again, even those who saved themselves from the colour, and go to temples or each other’s houses. They are greeting, singing and saying ‘Happy Holi’ to everyone. We also had lots of colours here at the Ashram and you can imagine from the picture of the girls how much colour was here.
Now I am looking forward to the distance healing meditation tonight in which I will connect with all my friends over the world. Su, whom you can see in the left of the picture also wrote an article about her time at the Ashram.
Click here to see pictures of Holi at the Ashram
Click here to read Su’s article
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Holi is an ancient festival of India and was originally known as ‘Holika’. The festivals finds a detailed description in early religious works such as Jaimini’s Purvamimamsa-Sutras and Kathaka-Grhya-Sutras. Historians also believe that Holi was celebrated by all Aryans but more so in the Eastern part of India.
Holi of Barsana, the birthplace of Radha, a village, 42 kms away from Mathura, is of particular interest. Here, men from Nandgaon, the land of Krishna come to play Holi with the girls of Barsana and hope of raising their flag over Shri Radhikaji’s temple. But, instead of colours they are greeted with sticks by the gopis. Hence, the Holi get its new name here-Lathmaar Holi.
Holi helps to bring the society together and strengthen the secular fabric of our country. For, the festival is celebrated by non-Hindus also as everybody like to be a part of such a colouful and joyous festival.
As Holi comes at a time of the year when people have a tendency to feel sleepy and lazy. To counteract this tardiness of the body, people sing loudly or even speak loudly. Their movements are brisk and their music is loud. All of this helps to rejuvenate the system of the human body
In india holi is called with so many different name like dulandi , Rangpanchmi, Lathmar holi,basant utsav, dol purnima,hola mahala , shimgo, phago purnima. People of diffrent zone call holi in different term.
That’s a super cool photo.
This looks like so much fun! Colors, to me, represent happiness, diversity, and harmony, like a rainbow. 🙂
Maybe Holi could be an opportunity for people of different castes to come together and forget their differences in honor of peace! Maybe this will be the beginning of a new era…
Sounds like fun! I would love to experience Holi one time in my life, it must be amazing. Better then every party and disco in the West…By the way: really funny picture 🙂