Monday, March 1, 2010

HOLI... A Festival Of Colour Of LOVE......

Hi Folks,
Wish u a very happy and colourful HOLI. Holi is such a beautiful festival undoubtedly the most fun-filled and boisterous of Hindu festival. It's an occasion that brings in unadulterated joy and mirth, fun and play, music and dance, and, of course, lots of bright colors. Squirting colored water on passers-by, dunking friends in mud pool amidst teasing and laughter, getting intoxicated on bhaang and reveling with companions is perfectly acceptable. In fact, on the days of Holi, you can get away with almost anything by saying, "Bura Na Mano Holi Hai!”. Holi is the occasion to forget your hatred and accept everyone as friend; it is the day when heart meets with heart.

Although I have not been playing Holi for last 6-7 years but it does not mean that I don’t like this festival. I really love this festival. I started to love this festival when my NANI (grand mother) told me about the immortal love story of RADHA and KRISHNA.She told me that when Krishna complains to her mother about the fairness of Radha tha mother says him to apply colour on the radha’s face and then her complexion will change. From there on we started celebrating Holi as a festival of love. As a child this story had a great influence on me and I was completely mesmerized by the love story of Radha and Krishna.

Every person has his/her good or bad memories of holi like any other festival. I find myself lucky enough that I do not have such bad memories in my life but at the same time life is full of gud sweet old memories with my family and friends. Holi is not an unlikely case. Although I don’t play holi but I have some sweet memories of this festival with me. In my hometown Rajasthan I used to see to things on the ocassion of holi , one was DHAP and the other one is RAAS. These two are very beautiful classical dance styles very famous in those parts but in cities like delhi a very few people know about this.

As I told you that I am a great fan of Kishna I really loved the RAAS (or better word is MAHARAAS) which he did with all the Gopies and her best friend RADHA. I wanted to dance like him. So at one holi we tried to organize a MAHARASS with my Friends and families. Believe you me once it started the whole enviroment was so beautiful that it was giving a such divine feeling. Everybody was dancing with full love and joy. We did not use colour like gulal . abeer etc to play holi that day but colour of love was the only colour which was used to play holi and believe me this can be the only colour to play holi.

This was my favorite holi years back. I would like to quote few lines of that MAHARAAS song which are truly amazing…… I hope u like it and try to play holi with colour of love from next times. Lets hear it………….

Kanha re thoda sa pyar de, charno me baitha ke tar de.
O gori ghooghat utar de, prem ki bhiksha jholi me dar de.
Maya ka tumne rang aisa dala, bandhan me bandh gaya bandhne wala
Now listen this ….. simply divine and celestial……….

Aatma-parmatma k milan ka madhumas hai
Yahi MAHARAAS hai Yahi MAHARAAS hai.
Krishna komal hai Radhe Suhaas hai,
Yahi MAHARAAS hai Yahi MAHARAAS hai.
Shrishti ke Kan Kan me iska aabhaas hai,
Yahi MAHARAAS hai Yahi MAHARAAS hai
Taron me nartan phoolon me ulaas hai,
Yahi MAHARAAS hai Yahi MAHARAAS hai
Murli ki pratidhwani dishaon k pas hai,
Yahi MAHARAAS hai Yahi MAHARAAS hai.

Take care
Uttam Sharma

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