11 Mar 2009 Vrindavan, India
Category: Celebration
This was the last day of Holi. As I told yesterday there was the fire ceremony last night and today in the morning everyone started from their home equipped with colour powder visiting all friends and relatives in the town, putting colour on older people’s feet and on friends’ faces. Everyone is out meeting and greeting others. It is the sense of this festival. Even if there was any issue, problem or anger in between two people, this will be dissolved in this festive atmosphere and this love and embrace of friends. This festival brings hearts together.
Lots of sweets are distributed, too. The colour madness reaches a climax and suddenly at two o’clock, everything will be over. All colour will stop, everyone will go home, clean the whole house and themselves and then dress up with new clothes. In the evening they go out again, even those who saved themselves from the colour, and go to temples or each other’s houses. They are greeting, singing and saying ‘happy Holi’ to everyone. We also had lots of colours here at the Ashram and you can imagine from the picture of the girls how much colour was here.
Now I am looking forward to the distance healing meditation tonight in which I will connect with all my friends over the world. Su, whom you can see in the left of the picture also wrote an article about her time at the Ashram.
Click here to see pictures of Holi at the Ashram
Click here to read Su’s article
Tags:: Ashram, Celebration, Friends, Fun, Festival, Gift, Holi
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Sounds like fun! I would love to experience Holi one time in my life, it must be amazing. Better then every party and disco in the West... By the way: really funny picture :)
Reply By Mirela on August 23, 2012 05:35
This looks like so much fun! Colors, to me, represent happiness, diversity, and harmony, like a rainbow. :) Maybe Holi could be an opportunity for people of different castes to come together and forget their differences in honor of peace! Maybe this will be the beginning of a new era...
Reply By Emily on October 09, 2011 02:13
In india holi is called with so many different name like dulandi , Rangpanchmi, Lathmar holi,basant utsav, dol purnima,hola mahala , shimgo, phago purnima. People of diffrent zone call holi in different term.
Reply By Sana on September 08, 2010 02:00
As Holi comes at a time of the year when people have a tendency to feel sleepy and lazy. To counteract this tardiness of the body, people sing loudly or even speak loudly. Their movements are brisk and their music is loud. All of this helps to rejuvenate the system of the human body
Reply By Shiksha on September 08, 2010 01:55
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