Skip to main content

GIFT OF CIVILIZED CULTURE

Wish you all Happy Sankranti.
     This is the first festival of this new year. This festival is really started by our civilised ancestors with the intention to    abolish enmity and to motivate harmony in society. So there is custom that on this day, we forget the quarrels with others and give sesame and jaggery to all with the request to speak sweetly. But now a day what are we doing? On first January, we are wishing happy new year, on second January, we are doing riots, on 14th January again we are greeting all with the request to speak sweetly and on 26th January we are showing our patriotism. Whether the main intention behind celebrating
Sankranti can be fulfilled by such behaviour? Or now we don't need harmony,or now we have lost our power to think and are allowing the political leaders to use us as puppets. Really now this is the necessity of time for everyone to use our conscience and to behave according to our own decisions.
           In our India, almost in every state, this festival is celebrated in different ways and in different names. In South India,this festival is known as Pongal. In Bengal, it is known as Bhogi- Bihu. In Bihar, on this day,the people make centric rice. In Himachal Pradesh, on this day, some people tie bird’s or the sun’s images in children's neck. In Orissa, there is a custom to illuminate on this day. In Andhra Pradesh, on this day , the people celebrate Mukkanuma
       In our Maharashtra, some years ago, there was custom to prepare Halwa from sesame and sugar with hands. Now readymade Halwa made by machinery is available in market. So the art to make Halwa by hands is vanishing. Yet the tradition of making jewellery of readymade Halwa is still in existence.
             So, this is again a gift given by our ancient civilized culture to combine art with festival. So in Diwali we colour and decorate our house, on every festival we draw beautiful Rangoli , for Ganesh Utsav we decorate the place with new ideas. So salute to our ancestors who thought about nature, health,art and virtue while arranging our festivals. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

ON JANMASHTAMI

  It is believed that God always behaves ideal. So almost our all myths when tell us about God’s incarnation as a human being, they draw His character as ideal in His childhood and in young age also. Only,God Krishna is shown as behaving according to the age like a human being. From His childhood and in His throughout whole life, there is a mischievousness, which is very much liked by all human beings. Perhaps so, everyone feels more attachment for Krishna. Because, even in old age also even an ideal and disciplined human being likes mischievousness, though he himself could never behave so. In childhood, Krishna played fully with his friends, even stole curd and butter from milkmaid's houses with friends. At the same time, being God, he killed many monsters also. In young age, He played “Rasleela”with the milkmaid's. When He helped Arjuna to marry with His sister Subhadra, very mischievously he deceived Balaram. It means God Krishna is the best combination of God and human be...
Post a Comment
Read more

TRIBUTE---(4)

 In last week,I have started the topic--Tribute to teachers. But,as in my life,I met many too good teachers,I must continue the topic. Till, we were learning in tenth class, sometimes, we all students from my class, were insisting our some specific teachers to relieve us for playing on ground or for telling us any story in the period. And the teachers were indulging it. When I was learning in eighth class, my father was our class-teacher. In the beginning of the year, I was in tension that if my father would punish the students in my class, those students would take revenge on me. But, such never happened. My father never punished us, and he became their favourite teacher. At that time I realised that the students in our whole school, were honouring my father not because of fear, but to show the respect towards him.             When I was learning in the tenth class, there was Kotwal madam to teach us Sanskrit. She...
Post a Comment
Read more

Drawbacks in life

                    Drawbacks in life                                                        Have you noticed that in our surroundings if any person is less smart than average, the society treats him as if he is mad or very clumsy. If any person is suffering from pains in knees,yet he is eager for going on travel, the persons around him , instead of encouraging him, they protest him ,ridicule him by saying that he had traveled much and enjoyed much in previous life, so now he should not go out anywhere, but he should remain at home. If there is any bitter incident in anyone's life, after some period,that person tries to forget it and to come out from the effects of t...
Post a Comment
Read more