A dip into secrets of Colourful Holi


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 very interesting…..Holi is named after Holika, who was sister of king Hrinyakashyap. Hrinyakashyap was a demon king and hated Lord Vishnu, it so happened that he got blessed with a son, who was worshipper of Lord Vishnu. His son was named Prahlad. Prahlad word suggests about his choices, he was always in celebration of life. Hrinyakashyap attempted to divert his mind away from Vishnu but was not successful, and then his sister Holika suggested that she is blessed with a shawl that will not catch fire if she sits in a bonfire whereas fire will burn Prahlad. Hrinyakashyap liked her idea and they made a large bonfire where two could be seated.


Holika sat there with Prahlad on her lap. She covered herself with this magical shawl. It was then lit. Flames started rising higher and higher, producing immense heat. Holika smartly tried to pull the shawl away from Prahlad but somehow she missed and the shawl went on Prahlad covering him from all sides. She got burnt to ashes while Prahlad was still safe with God’s grace.

This story highlights many points and uncovers secret to be happy even in completely adverse conditions.

Holi is the day after which temperatures starts rising quite fast. The weather suddenly becomes so hot that it’s difficult to handle increased heat in the atmosphere due to bright Sun. Prahlad shows the secret key to this challenge.

The next day was celebrated as Lord Vishnu’s grace was clear with the safe return of Prahlad. This is the day Holi is played with colours…

The question now is that with this background, how Holi became so much colourful?

continued in part 2..... 

If you have any questions about this exploration, feel free to comment it down, we will be glad to address them...

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