22.10.2013 :
How many festivals we have! Life is a celebration and in all its beauty, we celebrate it. The Google
search gave very interesting reading about the rituals associated with Karva
Chauth
Today is Karva Chauth. My nephew told me. He is in Himachal Pradesh and he
came across the celebration there in the day. He narrated how the people are
celebrating the occasion. Bur what is Karva Chauth? I heard it for the first
time from him. In the era of Google, there is no need to blink. Any information
is available there and I got it.
How many festivals we have! Life is a celebration and in all its beauty, we celebrate it. The Google
search gave very interesting reading about the rituals associated with Karva
Chauth
Ladies observe fast from dawn to dusk on this day . "The fast begins
with dawn. Fasting women do not eat during the day, and some do not drink any
water either. In traditional observances of the fast, the fasting woman does no
housework. Women apply henna and other cosmetics to themselves and each other.
The day passes in meeting friends and relatives. In some regions, it is
customary to give and exchange painted clay pots filled with put bangles,
ribbons, home-made candy, cosmetics and small cloth items (e.g.,
handkerchiefs). Since Karwa Chauth follows soon after the Kharif crop
harvest in the rural areas, it is a good time for community festivities and
gift exchanges. Parents often send gifts to their married daughters and their
children." Very interesting, isn't it?
My nephew gave another information last year. That was about Congo. He went
there as a part of the Indian Peace Keeping Force to impose peace treaty
between the government and the warring factions. Google search to the African
countries throws information to the appalling conditions in which people live there. The poorest of the poor countries are further made poor by a bunch of
senseless people. Congo is one example. Look at Somalia or Ethiopia. Situation
is nothing less than horrible.
In Congo it is the Government versus M23. Fighting rages on, then they make
peace and then they fight. Look at Somalia. Why do they fight? It is difficult
to comprehend, but they live like this. They get sophisticated arms to kill
people. Nobody knows from where they manage to get such weapons of mass
destruction. Life is extremely hard there. Armed conflicts are considered the
only way to solve the problems. Not only in Africa, everywhere except India and
the developed countries, that is how people sort out the issues. Sadly, they
never understand that, no problems on this earth could ever be resolved using
guns and bombs. They would have never heard of the word Satyagraha.
We can only wish a Mahatma Gandhi or a Gautama Buddha is born in these
hopeless countries and teach the people the virtues of non violence. Problems
can only be solved if people can realise the importance of non violence. Smile
and keep calm even in extreme provocations...That is what Bhagavan Krishnan
taught our society and we are the proud followers of that great incarnation.
Perhaps, another birth by the Bhagavan is badly needed in the God foresaken hinterlands of the globe to save the helpless mass who reel under a handful of
trigger happy insane human beings
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