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1. Importance of Holi and Dhulandi both days.
2. What is the reason behind celebrating Holi?
3. How it is played in different parts of country?
4. Small experience of how it was played by you?
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What is the Importance of Holi and Dhulandi both days?
Holi which is also known as Dhulandi is a symbol of triumph of good over evil, Holi marks the onset of spring and is also celebrated to show gratitude for a good harvest.
We say holi as a festival of colors but what does it actually mean? Playing with colours or something else?
When we say "festival of colors" it means to have unity in diversity. With a beautiful blend of difficult cultures and traditions, Holi is celebrated with uniqueness by each Indian states.
Holi knows no bars, Holi knows no boundaries. It brings people together and generate a feeling of brotherhood and spread harmony all around. Not jus Holi but all the other festivals binds the people of Indian origin together and also to their roots, customs and traditions.
What is the reason behind celebrating Holi?
The first and most popular reasons is the well known story of "Holika and Prahlad", this story gives us the message of the power of devotion and the triumph of good over evil.
There was a king named "Hiranyakashyap", He was so empowering and egoistic that he wanted everyone to worship him. But his own son "Prahlad", believed in lord vishnu and refused to worship his father. So Hiranyakashyap ordered young Prahlad to sit on a pyre in his sister Holika's lap who was blessed by a shawl which made her immune to fire. Prahlad sat on her lap but as the fire grew Holika was burned to death because her boon was that she would be untouched by fire if she was alone. Prahlad came out safely because of his true and pure and strong devotion.
Thus, Holi derives its name from the burning of Holika. And is celebrated as a festival of good over evil.
The second ritual associated with Holi- The "Barsana ki Holi". This is one of the important reasons for celebrating Holi. It is believed that at a point of time Lord Krishna was sad over his dark complexion thinking that why Goddess Radha is so fair. Then his mother Yashoda playfully suggested that he can smear colour on Radha's face and change her complexion to any colour he wanted. Fascinated by the idea, Krishna did so and introduced the festival of colours. This gives us the message of love.
Another Holi legend which is popular in Southern India is the fable. Kaamdeva was once cursed by Lord Shiva and was turned into ashes. On the tearful request of Kama's wife Rati, Lord Shiva restored him but only as a mental image representing true love rather than physical presence. The Holi bonfire is believed to celebrate this event where people worship the bonfire to keep evils away from them.
How Holi is played in different parts of our country?
Mythological Origins of Holi vary in different parts of our country. Some of them are listed below:-
Lathmar Holi (Uttar Pradesh)- In uttar pradesh, people play "Lathmar Holi."
In Barsana, Mathura and Vrindavan regions women chase mens and beat them with lathis as a part of there tradition.
Phagwa (Bihar)- Holi in Bihar is celebrated by having bhaang. On the first day people light the Holika pyre and then play with colors.
Manjul Kuli (Kerala)- Holi in Kerala is celebrated peacefully. People visit temples at the first day and then play with colours at the second day.
Here I'm sharing my experience how i celebrated Holi.
I'm from Bengal and we call it Dol Jatra. Before a week we started cleaning our house then a day before holi we decorated the idol of Lord Krishna and Goddess Radha's palkhi. On chhoti holi me any my family lighted the Holika pyre and prayed to get rid of evil spirits and prayed that i get success. At the Second day of holi i helped my mother to make sweets. In the morning i smear colours (abeer) on lord krishna and Goddess Radha, then offered the sweets to god. After that played with natural colours.
Now a days Holi has become more as a fun festival. Some childrens wastes water and local sellers sells bad quality colours which contains elements which can hurt our skin. So they need to realise what Holi actually mean and why it is celebrated.
At the end i would just say-
We should play with natural colours.
We should not waste water.
We should never hurt animals.
Bura na mano holi hai- This slogan is used to generate brotherhood but these days this is often taken wrong by few people so we should never use this slogan to do something which can hurt anyone's sentiments.
Happy Holi to everyone reading this.
As we all know that holi is the festival of colours and it is celebrated differently across the world. It is a Hindu religion festival but nowadays it is celebrated by other religion followers also.
Today, Holi is also celebrating in various parts of the Asia.
On Dhulandi we burn Holika as we are burning the all evil spirit of our society.
And we all know that holika dahan is the main part of holi and it is done to represent the killing of holika by Lord vishnu in order to save prahlad.
On this day, pyres are burnt in both the countries, Nepal and India. The burning fire represents the burning of devil, Holika.
Importance....
● As we all know that the Dhulandi marks the end of evil spirit, so it us performed in our nation in order to mark the end of all bad things or evil spirits.
● We know that holi is the festival of colours and it brings love , respect and colours in everyone's life, that's why it is very popular and important in our nation.
● As we know the story behind dhulandi and Holi, It shows the victory of good over bad and tell us that we all must do right things in our life.
● It gives a moral that no matter how much powerful your enemy is, always the victory is of good spirit.
Reason behind playing Holi....
King Hiranyakaship had earned a boon that made him indestructible and because of such super powers , he becomes blind and more aggressive and finally he started believing that he was a God for all the people and told everyone that they will worship only him otherwise he will kill that particular person.
But his own son Prahlad disagreed him and started worshipping the lord vishnu. this made Hiranyakaship more arrogant and sometimes in aggression he used to of giving cruel punishments to his own son. But still he worship only Lord Vishnu and neglected the all wordings of his father, Hiranyakaship.
Holika , prahlad's evil aunt tried to kill him by sitting in a pyre. Holika was wearing a cloak which protects her from the fire whereas prahlad had not wear any kind of such cloak.
as the fire started burning, the cloak flew away from holika and encased prahlad and at last holika burnt, prahlad survived and Lord Vishnu killed prahlad's father, Hiranyakaship.
Today , the pyre is a reminder of the victory of good over evil.
How it is played in various part of our country....
In various part it is celebrated quite differently...
In Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Bihar, Punjab it is celebrated similarly..people or kids living there wake up early in the morning and go out of the house in order to colour each other before the other person. Small kids take their filled balloon with them and start playing in groups...temples are decorated and in evening people go to each other's home and share the all about things happened on that day with each other.
Khadi holi is played in the uttarakhand.
in that kind of holi the people living there wears different traditional cloths and uses different types of colours to colour each other .
Lathmar holi is played in the village of barsana and nandgao.
As we know that the men mainly go from nandgao to barsana with their colours similarly like Krishna to colour the all Gopis living there. Shri Krishna used to go there at this event to colour the gopis and especially Radha. The women use lathis or stick to welcome the men.
In maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh it is known as Rang panchami , the name is different but the method of celebrating is almost same as celebrated in north part of India.
In assam it is known as Phakuwah. It is played in basically two days one day they burn all the clay houses as the holika dahan and on other day , they play with colours.
In west Bengal it is known as Basant Utsav and Dol Jatra. here , they celebrate basant utsav to welcome the spring season And on Dol Jatra they wear their traditional cloths and dance to show their happiness, love, respect towards each other.
On holi , I am used to wake up early in the morning and to fill all the balloons with coloured water and as soon as possible we slowly go out of our houses in order to colour each other before the another person and I prefer to play holi in group and in evening we all went to each others home with sweets and gifts and share all the things of that day together and I love to spent the day with my family and friends.