Time to celebrate - Festival of Holi

Best wishes to everyone for the Holi Festival filled with sweet moments and memories to cherish for long..... Happy Holi!

To all wonderful readers those who are not aware about holi, below is a brief description of the festival......

Left: My Family (Brother, Ma & Pitaji) in happy Holi mood.....



Holi, also called the Festival of Colours, is a popular Hindu Spring Festival observed in India and around the world, it is known as Dolyatra (Doljatra) or Boshonto Utsav ("spring festival").

The main day, Holi, also known as Dhulheti, Dhulandi or Dhulendi, is celebrated by people throwing coloured powder and coloured water at each other. Bonfires are lit the day before, also known as Holika Dahan (death of Holika) or Chhoti Holi (little Holi).

The bonfires are lit in memory of the miraculous escape that young Prahlad had when Demoness Holika, sister of Hiranyakashipu, carried him into the fire. Holika was burnt but Prahlad, a staunch devotee of Lord Vishnu, escaped without any injuries due to his unshakable devotion.

Holi is celebrated on the full moon day in the month of Phalugna or Falguna (Phalgun Purnima), which usually falls in the later part of February or March. This year, Holi (Dhulandi) is on
11th March and Holika Dahan is on 10th March.

Rangapanchami occurs a few days later on a Panchami (fifth day of the full moon), marking the end of festivities involving colours.

Our duties as a global citizen - "stop the blame game"

In light of a heinous terrorist act yesterday in Pakistan, one should stop and think of individual duties towards the society rather embarking on blame game. All what blaming others achieves is fuelling the hatred further into today’s Global Society and continuation of conflicts all around the globe.

I am an Indian born global citizen, and am ashamed of how hypocritical our people are, including me. We wear the most expensive clothes and give hardly anything to charity; we have the most lavish parties, while the poor can’t even afford a day’s meal; we love making our homes as western as possible, while people don’t even have a roof on their head! We are running around drunkard wanting things(being materialistic) rather being content with our needs.

The fundamental question I ask is what we really expect from the system! The only difference between us and our politicians are that we do not have access to the presidential palace nor do we have billions in our Swiss accounts but at the end of the day our political masters are a multifold reflection of us. It is only us who are to blame to start with.

Without further generalizing, as an Indian (or in this instance whole subcontinental thinking) one tends to think majority of us have developed a strange habit of never putting our hands up to help others rather just complain. Having said so, let me be clear that I am one of you, I don’t help as much I should or could, when it comes to giving my 100%, I have conveniently adjusted to the feeling of helplessness, infect revel in it, and in order to always shift the blame further commentate on our system by stating after all what could you do with a government/ bureaucrats like that?......this is what we call passing the buck.

We are so-called largest functioning democracy; shouldn’t we be able to do something more than what we are actually doing, and when it comes to blaming the government, I believe we are the one who chose these leaders by voting for them, and because they are from within us, so infect they are us!

Hence, my recommendation is, first look deep down within ourselves and try to locate the weakness in us, before we go and attack the system and its masters. Because, they are laughing at all of us – and saying that look at those idiots, they are the one who voted for us.

"Bura Jo Dekhan Main Chala, Bura Naa Milya KoyeJo Munn Khoja Apnaa, To Mujhse Bura Naa Koye" St. Kabir
Translation
I searched for the crooked, met not a single onewhen searched myself, "I" found the crooked one

“Karma is not our past but everything to do with the present”

I believe "Karma" actually should have been every persons' work in this life rather than mysterious early life work!!!

Why the religions were created at all when no one has actually seen God or had a lunch with him or her ? Why were religions imposed on man so ruthlessly especially the muslims and catholics?

Why were 1,2,3....created when they are abstract?? Why is time hours, minutes, seconds invented when they happen everyday???

Fortunately or Unfortunately, Human is blessed with brainpower relatively superior to other animals on this planet by .let us say we call it GOD!

As we all know, man being the most intelligent species is able to think in abstract terms and come up with solutions!! So, 10 apples are ten in number and so are other items on your desk like pens or oranges..... so, man began counting them and derived abstract stuff like Mathematics etc.,

Now, he expanded it with multiplactions or substractions, additions....and thinking went on and built on top of it.

NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION!!

So, if you are a tribal chief and your son has reached age 16, biological needs made him court a girl. Now, he brought her home but confusion prevails on relationships as other brothers also have competition in a primitive life. So, customs form. But, favouritism etc., come up..so, intellegentsia like old people in the neighbourhood play a priest or chief like role... so, a contract occurs named 'marriage' and this middleman is invited and the customs grow out to name him as 'priest' and a job is assigned as man's intelligent mind begins to ORGANIZE society....

Now, greed strikes society and they want to feel superior over a drinking party and they decide to show off their superiority by attacking next village.

See, like the way amoeba turned into species.... religion, philosophies, grew out from nowhere due to necessity.

But when 10000 years ago when a tribal boy in India gave away 10 grams of salt to somebody and so he has nothing and a person gets an idea that now he has nothing and so gives a term ZERO!! Fine, we invented ZERO in INDIA when no one came up with the idea but WE STILL HAVE TO MOVE esp. when computers are pushing counting almost at infinite levels at infinite faster speeds.

So, spirituality, religion etc., have to MODERNIZE and AMEND with TIMES!!!
Catholicism has become a FARCE due to institutionalizing by popes, elites and every corrupt you can conceive of... so is Islam or Hinduism or Judaism.................

Today, man has ability to acquire infinite wisdom by having a computer and internet connect infront of him!! So, man has powers of God and he has choice and freedom to be what he wanted to be... But even then, certain rules and regulations are forming on Internet too due to certain odd behaviour of people and this will be the new RELIGION of Internet on how a man must behave in society!!
Earlier, Cyber laws were not strong but now they are getting stricter as people are abusing....

Religion is important; Otherwise, a stallion will go and take over all the mares in the ranch at the cost of suffering of other horses :))))))))

Human by nature is God when left alone but could become a devil in a anarchaic society!!!!