Happy Holi to you and all, Allan. On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:54 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Happy Holi Everyone. > I asked an Indian lady friend just what was the holiday was..i would like > to share her answer with the group. > > Holi - the festival of colours (implying renewal, invigoration). It is a > time for rejoicing and enthusiastic celebration, much merry-making. It is a > festival of sharing (generosity) what has been harvested and to welcome the > spring season, the season of love. New leaves and flowers appear on trees > (signifying renewal). The essence of Holi festival is acknowledging and > joyous celebration of the spirit of oneness (cohesion, harmony), of > equality, of unity in diversity, and to reset and renew... submerging all > unpleasantness and prejudice. Holi [also] has a special musical flavour. > Originally, Holi was regarded as a festival to celebrate good harvest and > fertility of the land. Holi also celebrates the triumph of good over > malevolence, of light over darkness (ignorance and regressive > aspects/values/mindsets), the forces of good (dharma) triumphs over the > forces of adharma (ignorance, myopia and malevolence), it is also about > cleansing one's mind and heart. ... People, irrespective of age, play with > colours, applying dry colours and splashing coloured water on each other. > Earlier organic colours were used. This had a positive effect on the skin > and on the environment. > > Happy Holi > > > تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين > Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
