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A dip into secrets of Colourful Holi : Part 2

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It’s Radha Krishna’s play that took this internal journey to next level and demonstrated the secret of being blissfull (Prahlad). It was the time when Radha realized her Para form that made Krishna over joyous. To mark this happiness they celebrated Holi with colourful flowers. We know that flowers are colourful, having pleasant smell and a soft touch. They arouse emotions…. Radha Krishna celebration’s external play was this colourful Holi. This play resulted taking us into that emotional state which was beyond comprehension and ultimately resulted into Compassion. This was then followed year after year and Holi was played with flowers. The way of celebrating Holi further evolved and people started throwing water on each other to cool their bodies on this hot day. Human creativity has no limits, and to make this water colourful, they started using different flowers. One such famous flower was called as Tesu ke phool. This flower leaves its colou...

A dip into secrets of Colourful Holi

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The first question comes in mind, what could be secret in Holi? Is Holi empowering? Is Holi just a play and dance with colours? Could anything be done with our inner development? What is significance of Holi that our Rishis defined it for celebrating on a particular  time of the year only? Could we get our problems especially health related issues resolved at Holi? Why is Holi very popular among Tantrics?  List of such queries goes on…. making Holi more unclear, hence need to understand its secrets.  Holi coincides with very powerful event in the weather cycle and has direct impact on us, so we will try to explore it from that perspective with a technique that may be referred as Holi Kriya to get benefits of this celebration. Holi is a festival, a celebration of colours and is played for over few days in many parts of India. It starts with Holika Dahan, followed with colourful days. The story behind Holi is also v...

Secrets of Deepawali – Celebrations of Female Power

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Recently in a gathering, ladies of our society wanted me to express views and share insight on the female power behind all celebrations especially Deepawali. This topic is very challenging as most of us know that Lord Ram came back after his victory over the evil and RamRajya commenced with Deepawali so the expectations were very difficult to talk about. Accepting the Divine plan, I started sharing the waves from her…and asked, a ny ideas on why are we saying its celebration of female power?  There was no responses….eyes of the participants were blank, so I continued…. female power is the driver of all celebrations in life, Deepawali is also no exception but to understand this and to be on the same page, we need to dwell deeper…. Let’s starts with the facts known to us….  In India celebrations continue throughout the year but if we start from Shravan month (Indian calendar month) it starts with worship of Lord Shiv ( Mahakaal Jyotirlinga - mystery of time ), foll...