In India we celebrate maximum number of New Years – Hindu New Year, Christian New Year, Parasi New Year etc etc. Besides all these new year celebrations we have many more festivals. I believe is we go by every tradition and religion followed here, every second day would be a reason to celebrate. And why not? We should enjoy and celebrate life, why wait?
When I reflect and visualize ancient India, I can only visualize happy songs and some festivities of this movie – Utsav. Not the whole movie but the rustic milieu and everyone knowing the other and festivity. I remember as a kid we used to have almost a one month holiday during Diwali. We used to celebrate a lot of festivals, one was Vasant Utsav during Feb March followed by Holi. Holi too used to be an interesting festival and we used to say – “Do not mind its Holi today” (बुरा न मानो होली है).
I relate most celebrations to Holi (though now a days holi is celebrate with wilderness, which I do not like). Our every celebration should be like Holi celebration. Wish we can learn from that one sentence – do not take life seriously, Enjoy life. Now we search for reasons to be happy and enjoy life. Thought this “search” can be accommodated however “joy” should be with awareness. I think we are missing that link of awareness now a days.
I heard Sri Sri’s (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar) old talk QnA session. In that session he emphasized on celebrating every moment. It is a good idea.
Celebrate daily, celebrate every moment – with full awareness.
Image source – http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/india/120308/holi-celebrations-color-poisoning
3 Comments
rummuser · January 1, 2015 at 5:25 pm
Go ahead, do. I do. At my age, every time I wake up after a sleep, it is celebration time for being alive. And just before going to sleep, it is a prayer to give a painless and sudden death.
अनायासेन मरणं विनादैन्येन जीवनं
देहि मे क्रिपय शम्भो त्वयि भक्तिं अचन्चलं
rummuser · January 1, 2015 at 5:27 pm
Don’t be selective in choosing what to take and what to discard from Sri Sri Sri. Go the whole hog and follow all his directives.
Shivakumar Rajendran · January 2, 2015 at 7:58 pm
Celebrating every moment – This knowledge is such a blessing from Sri Sri. This one knowledge is so simple yet very profound – Grateful to Gurudev