Colours....Hues and shades of self and Holi....

Colours....Hues and shades of Holi.....

Holi is Vishnu's favourite festival, perhaps the only festival for which he waits eagerly throughout the year. Maybe because he and his friends are able to just let go and have a lot of fun. Also the fact that all members of our society come together for celebrating it and are with each other from morning till late afternoon.
The ladies are specially happy as they have to neither make breakfast nor lunch as all arrangements are made by the society.
Our day on Holi starts with a sumptuous breakfast in the common area of the society. This is followed by a celebration with colours dancing and games. The icing on the cake are dumb charades where.we have great fun in guessing names of movies. A mouthwatering lunch is followed by a game of tambola housie. Simple, harmless joy and revelry reflecting the true spirit of Holi. That is what it evinces, celebrating together forgetting all the grudges and blending together like a spectrum of colours.
Honestly , Imagine a life without colours! No reds, blues or greens, nor yellow and orange and no violet or Indigo. Not even black and white to give it the depth, how would our lives be? The profundity of colours makes our life beautiful.
Nature in all its bounty is so colourful so also our festivals. Amongst them is Holi, the festival of colours.
Holi is also associated with the onset of spring when nature is at it's best. Flowers in full bloom make Holi special.
Legends associated with it tell us about Holika and the burning of the evil and with it all.our negativity on the night before Holi. The next day is dhuleti or dhuli vandan when humanity is consumed in a riot of colours. Krishna is the centrifugal force around whom the celebrations converge. Natural colours, mystical music and raas leela were the driving points in that age. With the passage of time colours became synthetic and unnatural and the festivities lost that spirit. Of course , what has remained is the desire to let bygones be bygones, forget the grudges and enmity and soar with the spirit of , "Buraa naa maano, holi hain."
At times apparently harmless festivities get transformed into unpleasant experiences often scarring young minds. The boisterousness associated with it is akin to treading on a thin line. It is therfore important to maintain equilibrium during the celebrations.
Our lives are no different as the balance has to be maintained there too.
Really speaking colors are devoid of
property by themselves. What we see as colours is the reflection or absorption of the property of light. A particular colour is seen by us because the prevalent light is unable to absorb that colour.
Our lives too are reflections of our thoughts and emotions. At times we laugh with joy, or cry with sorrow. Sometimes we are angry and sometimes upset. We are loving at times and afraid on some occassions. Sometimes we hurt others with our harsh words. Our emotions are coloured with our thoughts and our actions are based on them. We fall prey to these and end up reacting instead of responding to situations. The tone of our voice, the words we chose are either absorbed or reflected by the person whom we are interacting just like colours.
The colours of Holi may fade away for sure and as humans we may forget what someone has said to us but how we are made to feel by someone remains with us all our lives.
So let's try and be like the rainbow reflecting all colurs of joy,  the VIBGYOR in all its glory. Let the colour of wheel of our emotions drive us to positivity. Let us revel in the colours of joy and true Holi spirit....Happy Holi.....