HOLI is a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus as a festival of colors. Holi is a festival of joy and colors. Holi is celebrated at the end of the winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month Phalguna (February/March), (Phalgun Purnima ), which usually falls in the later part of February or March.
Motivate behind Holi– Celebrate Holi keeping in mind its purpose of ‘uniting people’ and ‘a victory of truth over evil.’
Mythological Significance
Foremost is the legend of Prahlad and Hiranyakshyap.
Holi also celebrates the legend of Radha and Krishna which describes the extreme delight,
Holi is the celebration of death of Ogress Pootana who tried to kill infant, Krishna by feeding poisonous milk to it.
Extremely popular in Southern India is that of Lord Shiva and Kaamadeva. According to the legend, people in south celebrate the sacrifice of Lord of Passion Kaamadeva who risked his life to revoke Lord Shiva from meditation and save the world.
The legend of Ogress Dhundhi who used to trouble children in the kingdom of Raghu and was ultimately chased away by the pranks of the children on the day of Holi.
Showing their belief in the legend, children till date play pranks and hurl abuses at the time of Holika Dahan.
Do’s /Precautions
Wear full-sleeved t-shirt or shirts that’ll protect your arms.
Use a hat, cap or anything like that to protect your hair.
Use Sun glass to protect your eye.
Avoid light colored clothes.
Apply Oil on hair & Skin-you can slip away easily, and the colors won’t stick!
Keep handy pain killers, anti-oxidants, anti-allergic tablets if all the above tips have been disregarded.
Dont’s
Don’t use unclean water.
Refrain from too much sweets
.
Avoid artificial colors.
Don’t go out alone in the street & do not bump into the frenzied groups or mob down in streets.
Avoid over indulgence in bhang, drinks or food.
Do not drive if you are high on alcohol or bhang.
Don’t use metallic, harmful colours or lob balloons at unsuspecting commoners..
Wish you all a very happy & colorful holi.
Play Safe
Holi Hai..
Image source-Google
Every weekend i used to go to see this web page, as i want
enjoyment, for the reason that this this site conations truly fastidious
funny information too.
When someone writes an article he/she maintains the image of
a user in his/her brain that how a user
can understand it. Thus that’s why this paragraph is perfect.
Thanks!
Hi to every body, it’s my first pay a quick visit of this
website; this web site contains awesome and really excellent data
in support of visitors.
Attractive section of content. I just stumbled upon your web site and in accession capital to assert
that I acquire actually enjoyed account your blog posts.
Anyway I’ll be subscribing to your feeds and even I achievement you access consistently rapidly.
I’d like to find out more? I’d care to find out more details.
Touche. Great arguments. Keep up the amazing effort.
my blog post security
Greetings! I know this is somewhat off topic
but I was wondering if you knew where I could locate a captcha plugin for
my comment form? I'm using the same blog platform as yours and I'm having problems finding
one? Thanks a lot!
Also visit my web page – ford ranger forum
Helpful info. Fortunate me I found your website unintentionally,
and I am surprised why this twist of fate did
not took place earlier! I bookmarked it.
Look at my homepage: stretch mark creams
happy holi and its a lovely post 🙂
Thanks Radha
Nice and useful post dear 😀
Just now found your blog… following you 😀