Showing posts with label Holi Festival. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 19, 2016

Holi Gulal - Holi Colors Discription | Holi Puja - Holika Dahan process | Eco Friendly Holi - Make Your own Color | Holi Safety Tips

 Holi Gulal - Holi Colors Discription | Holi Puja - Holika Dahan process | Eco Friendly Holi - Make Your own Color | Holi Safety Tips

Holi festivity starts with illuminating of blaze on the Holi eve. Various legends and stories connected with Holi festivity makes the celebration more extravagant and distinctive. Individuals rub "gulal" and "abeer" on every others' countenances and brighten up saying, "bura na maano Holi hai". Holi likewise gives a brilliant opportunity to send endowments and adoration to dear ones wrapped in an extraordinary Holi blessings.

Holi Gulal | Colors

Envision the fest of Holi with one shading. How dull and exhausting the nearby view would be? The option of splendid colors includes life and cheers into Holi celebration festivity. Additionally wishing each other 'Upbeat Holi' by sprinkling or spreading shading powder that is alluded as "Gulal" on the substance of precious ones is the thing that makes HOLI the most chipper and anticipated celebration festivities of India.

Holi Gulal that is likewise alluded as "Abeer" or in simple terms as shading powder is the most noteworthy thing of the festival of Holi. It includes bliss, dynamic quality, love and cheers in celebration of Holi. For some Holi Gulal is a thing to spread on friends and family confront and welcome them with Happy Holi welcome and for some Gulal or Abeer is established profound with mythologies the same number of Holi Gulal is spread on the feet of seniors to wish them with bubbly welcome. In basic terms - Holi is the celebration of India when colors or Holi Gulal talk the dialect of merry Heart..!!

'Red Gulal'
Red is the shade of adoration and energy. However in India Red has a more noteworthy noteworthiness. It is the shading Red that ladies get dressed on her wedding. Red is the shade of the Sindoor of wedded ladies and red is the shade of the force of wedded ladies. Along these lines on Holi, Red Gulal is mirrors the enthusiasm, force, richness and parcel more to spread countenances of friends and family and welcome them "Holi Hai"!

'Yellow Gulal'
Yellow is the sacred shading in India. Nonetheless it is the shade of daylight, bliss and is known for having recuperating powers. The yellow Holi Gulal shading not just brings the significances of the shading yellow in the festival of Holi additionally a brilliant tone in the blend of colors. Since Yellow Gulal is one of the brightest Holi colors, subsequently it's a Gulal of most extreme inclination among the general population.

'Blue Gulal'
The shading blue symbolizes placidness and quiet. Additionally the shading blue is related as the shade of deduction brain or miserable condition of the psyche. Well in Holi Blue Gulal holds an alternate implication out and out. It includes more dynamic quality and liveliness in Holi festivity. Also, yes Blue Gulal is most loved among the folks. There are numerous shades of Blue Gulal accessible in the business sectors too.

'Green Gulal'
Undoubtedly, green Gulal is a standout amongst the most favored one among all on Holi. Despite the fact that the shading green symbolizes fresh start, bliss and collect however in India shading green is connected with Lord Krishna, a standout amongst the most supported Gods among the Indians. However in Holi, Green shading Gulal is known as a standout amongst the most loved Holi colors that brings a great deal of cheers and liveliness in the brilliant tints of Holi Gulal crushing.

'Pink Gulal'
Another extremely favored Holi Gulal shading is Pink. The sprinkle of splendid pink Gulal noticeable all around or spreading friends and family confronts with Pink Gulal spreads more delight, fun and liveliness into the festival of Holi. In spite of the fact that the Pink Gulal is the most loved among young ladies and ladies however then everybody discovers Pink Gulal as the most alluring and lively one to crush the characteristics of friends and family and welcomes them as “Holi Hai”! Indeed Pink Gulal is the most loved among the children to play on bright Holi festivity.


Holi Pooja Process or Holika Dahan Process

Holika Dahan arrangements start right around 40 days before the celebration. Individuals begin gathering woods on the essential intersection of the city. Holi Pooja or Holika happens on a promising time at night a day prior to the Holi celebration. Given underneath are the strides and customs for the Holi Pooja:

1. Holi Pooja can be performed at wherever.
2. A log of wood is kept at a noticeable open spot on the Vasant Panchami day.
3. Individuals augment the log focus with twigs, dried leaves, branches of trees and other burnable material.
4. Upon the arrival of Holika Dahan, a model of Holika and Prahlad is put on the tremendous stack of woods.
5. Model of Holika is made of ignitable material while Prahlad's likeness is made of non-flammable material.
6. On the eve of Holi, the store is set land and the general population serenade Rakshoghna Mantras of the Rig Veda to cast away the malicious spirits.
7. Left over fiery debris are gathered by individuals next morning. These powder are viewed as blessed and are spread on the appendages of the body as Holi Prasad.
8. Spreading of body appendages is a demonstration of cleaning.

Holi Pooja is performed in an alternate way in a few groups. Marwari ladies offer Holi puja toward the evening and night i.e. before setting flame to 'Holika'. It is called 'Thandi Holi'. The entire puja procedure is considered exceptionally promising for the wedded ladies. It guarantees prosperity and sound existence of their spouse.

Commend an Eco Friendly Holi

In a perfect world, the happy celebration of Holi is intended to praise the landing of Spring while the colors utilized as a part of Holi are to reflect of the different tints of spring season. Be that as it may, sadly, in advanced times Holi does not remain for all things wonderful. Like different celebrations, Holi too has turned out to be heartlessly marketed, uproarious but then another wellspring of natural debasement. To de-contaminate Holi and make it in a state of harmony with nature, as it should be, a few social and ecological gatherings are proposing an arrival to more characteristic methods for observing Holi.

The point of this articles is to create mindfulness amongst individuals about the different unsafe impacts around Holi festivities and urge individuals to commend an eco cordial Holi!

Hurtful Chemicals in Holi Paste sort colors
As per their examined reality sheet on Holi, the glues contain extremely lethal chemicals that can have serious wellbeing impacts. It would be ideal if you check the table beneath to think about the compound utilized as a part of different Holi colors and their unsafe impacts on human body.

Color   Chemical                      Health Effects
Black   Lead oxide                   Renal Failure
Green   Copper Sulphate          Eye Allergy, Puffiness and temporary blindness
Silver    Aluminium Bromide      Carcinogenic
Blue     Prussian Blue                Contract Dermatitis
Red      Mercury Sulphite          Highly toxic can cause skin cancer

Make your own Holi colors

Holi celebration darlings will be excited to realize that it is conceivable to make straightforward characteristic colors in one's own kitchen. Here are some extremely straightforward formulas to make common colors:

Color                                       Method of Preparation
Yellow                                     1) Mix turmeric (haldi) powder with chick pea flour (besan)
                                                2) Boil Marigold or Tesu flowers in water

Yellow liquid color                    Soak peels of pomegranate (Anar) overnight.

Deep Pink                                Slice a beetroot and soak in water

Orange - red paste                   Henna leaves (mehndi) can be dried, powdered and mixed with water.



Holi Safety Tips

Here are a couple tips and proposal to make your holi sheltered and glad.
•Play safe. Try not to get to riotous and don't let others to be inconsiderate on you.
•The best alternative would be to play with normal home made colors. Your skin and hair will feel messed around with the utilization of skin well disposed regular items.
•If common colors are unrealistic, then guarantee a superior nature of colors. Purchase colors from a presumed shop or seller.
•Use a greater amount of red or pink colors which looks great and can without much of a stretch taken off. Vainglorious purple, green, yellow, orange have more hurtful chemicals in them and ought to be maintained a strategic distance from.
•Make beyond any doubt that your face is all around creamed previously, then after the fact the play.
•Apply thick covering of paint on your nails-both in fingers and toes with the goal that they stay secured.
•Oil your hair well, with the goal that shading doesn't stick on your hair and can be washed off effortlessly later.
•Cover your hair. Make utilization of cap or tops to shield your hair from being hued with difficult to-wash colors.
•Make beyond any doubt that powder or whatever other item does not get inside your eyes. Eyes are amazingly defenseless on Holi due to their key spot in body furthermore on account of the utilization of hurtful chemicals in colors nowadays. If you don't mind guarantee that your eyes stay ensured at all times. Utilize a sunglass to shield your eyes from a failure to fire of shading filled dashes or water planes.
•Use dental tops to spare your teeth from any undesirable stains.
•Put on your most exceedingly bad garments with the goal that you won't need to tackle the bothers of a prompt washing.
•Rags like wear denims and splendid shades like dark, blue, green, purple are profoundly suggested.
•Try to spare yourself off from every conceivable assault on the face. In the event that your such endeavors fizzle, keep your eyes and lips firmly close in the event that you are assaulted all over.
•Avoid over liberality in bhang, beverages or nourishment... so you don't apologize later.
•Do not drive on the off chance that you are high on liquor or bhang.
•Keep helpful torment executioners, against oxidants, hostile to unfavorably susceptible tablets if all the above tips have been slighted.

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Holi Festival | Holi in India | About Holi 2016 | Festival of Colors History- Thandai, Bhang | Holika Dahan- Timings

Holi Festival | Holi in India | About Holi 2016 | Festival of Colors History- Thandai, Bhang | Holika Dahan- Timings

About Holi | Holi Festival Wiki

Holi (elocution:/ˈhoʊliː/; Sanskrit: होली Holī) is a spring celebration, otherwise called the celebration of colors or the celebration of sharing love.It is an old Hindu religious celebration which has ended up famous with non-Hindus in numerous parts of South Asia, and in addition individuals of different groups outside Asia.

It is basically seen in India, Nepal, and different areas of the world with critical populaces of Hindus or individuals of Indian starting point. As of late the celebration has spread to parts of Europe and North America as a spring festivity of affection, skip, and colors.

Holi festivities begin on the prior night Holi with a Holika blaze where individuals assemble, sing, move and gathering. The following morning is a free-for-all fair of colours,where members play, pursue and shading each other with dry powder and hued water, with some conveying water firearms and shaded water-filled inflatables for their water battle. Anybody what's more, everybody is reasonable amusement, companion or more peculiar, rich or poor, man or lady, kids and senior citizens. The skip and battle with colors happens in the open avenues, open parks, outside sanctuaries and structures. Bunches convey drums and other musical instruments, go from spot to put, sing and move. Individuals visit family, companions and enemies to toss shading powders on each other, giggle and prattle, then share Holi delights, sustenance and beverages. A few beverages are inebriating. For instance, Bhang, an inebriating fixing produced using cannabis leaves, is blended into beverages and desserts and devoured by numerous. At night, in the wake of calming down, individuals spruce up and visit loved ones.

Holi is commended at the methodology of the vernal equinox, on the Phalguna Purnima (Full Moon). The celebration date differs each year, per the Hindu schedule, and commonly comes in Walk, some of the time February in the Gregorian Calendar. The celebration connotes the triumph of great over fiendishness, the entry of spring, end of winter, and for some a happy day to meet others, play and giggle, overlook and excuse, and repair broken connections, and is too celebrated as a thanksgiving for a decent reap.

History of Holi | Festival of Colors

 Holi is an antiquated celebration of India and was initially known as 'Holika'. The celebrations finds an itemized portrayal in ahead of schedule religious works, for example, Jaimini's Purvamimamsa-Sutras and Kathaka-Grhya-Sutras. Antiquarians likewise trust that Holi was praised by all Aryans however all the more so in the Eastern piece of India.

It is said that Holi existed a few centuries before Christ. Be that as it may, the importance of the celebration is accepted to have changed throughout the years. Prior it was an extraordinary ceremony performed by wedded ladies for the joy and prosperity of their families and the full moon (Raka) was worshiped.

About Holika Dahan 2016

Holi Dahan is the custom of awesome significance in the festival of Holi celebration. It is the convention of the Holi celebration that portrays the passing of Holika and otherworldly the clearing of Prahlad from flame. In agreement to the Hindu sacred writings the custom of Holika Dahan that is reviewed as Holika Deepak and in addition Chhoti Holi is to be performed amid Pradosh Kaal that begins after the nightfall keeping in mind the Purnimasi Tithi is winning. This year the date for Holika Dahan is 23rd March 2016, while the timing of Holika Dahan 2016 is 18:32 to 20:50 (night).

Holika Dahan is a religious service in which individuals broil "Jau" in the flame of Holika. At that point they convey it to their home as it regards bring it for the relatives. Likewise they blaze 5 "Upali" in the Holika Dahan fire as it delineates the conviction of smoldering their everything issues. There is additionally a conviction of smoldering the misuse of back rub by the "Sarson Ubtan in the Holika flame to blaze each sort of body issues and get favored by the Holika Mata with great wellbeing.



Dates of Holi
Year
Day
Date
2017
Monday
March 13th
2016
Thursday
March 24th
2015
Friday
March 6th
2014
Monday
March 17th
2013
Wednesday
March 27th

When is Holi?

The celebration of Holi is praised on the day after the full moon in right on time March each year.

In 2016, Holi is recorded as an occasion on March 24th in: Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chattisgarah, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Madhya pradesh, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand.

Holi is likewise referred to in a few states as Doljatra, or Dola Purnima and is an occasion in 2016 on March 23rd in: Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Odisha, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, West Bengal.

The day preceding Holi is known as Holi Dahan and can be an occasion in a few states.

Local names, customs and festivities

Holi (Hindi: होली, Nepali: होली, Punjabi: ਹੋਲੀ) is otherwise called Phakuwa or Phagwah (Assamese: ফাকুৱা), Festival of Colors, or Doḷajātra in Odisha, and as Dol Jatra (Assamese: দ'ল যাত্ৰা) or Basantotsav ("spring celebration") in West Bengal and Assam. The traditions and festivities differ between districts of India.
Holi is of specific importance in the Braj district, which incorporates areas customarily connected with the Lord Krishna: Mathura, Vrindavan, Nandgaon, Uttar Pradesh, and Barsana, which get to be touristic amid the season of Holi.
Outside India, Holi is seen by the minority Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan also in nations with substantial Indian subcontinent diaspora populaces, for example, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, South Africa, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Mauritius, and Fiji. The Holi ceremonies and traditions outside South Asia likewise differ with neighborhood adjustments.

THANDAI

Thandai is implanted with the convention of Holi. A reviving and stimulating beverage thandai is appreciated amidst the play of colors when individuals turn into somewhat depleted tossing each other in the pool of hued waters. A glass of Thandai offers moment vitality and sets the temperament for playing with shading. Plus, when bound with the inebriating bhang it can make one sing, move and go wild. Infact, bhang thandai is utilized as a state of mind setter for the celebration of Holi.

Making of Thandai
Thandai is a cooling drink generally made of cleaned water, sugar, seeds of watermelon and muskmelon, almonds, lotus stem seeds, cashew nut, cardamom, saunf, rose-blossom, white pepper, saffron and the extremely inebriating bhang

Delayed consequences
A spoon of bhang in the thandai has a universe of an effect. Bhang is blended with milk, ice and cream and added to the thandai to create a kick. While some turn out to be ridiculously upbeat others turn as discouraged as damnation. Alert is required when taking a bhan thandai as overdose won't not be end up being good.Drinking thandai in Holi likewise gels with the climate as in North temperature runs high around then and thandai is a coolant.

Albeit home-improved thandais dependably tastes, in Banaras and somewhere else in India, it is presently conceivable to purchase business focuses and make moment thandais. 

BHANG

Connected with Lord Shiva, bhang has now ended up synonymous with holi. To the degree that bhang drinks have now turned into an authority Holi drink. Separated from the leaves and buds of cannabis - the exceptionally inebriating bhang heightens the soul of holi - a celebration which does not perceive any confinements. Lip smacking thandai, pakoras and vadas, all having bhang as an extremely vital fixing, are relished by all on the day.

A Brief History of Bhang
Bhang was initially utilized as an intoxicant as a part of India around 1000 BC and soon turned into a fundamental piece of Hindu society. In the old content Artharvaveda, Bhang is portrayed as a helpful herb that "discharges tension". Bhang arrangements were holy to Gods, especially Shiva. One of Shiva's designations was "Master of Bhang" as he is said to have found the supernatural properties of the blend.

In impersonation of Shiva, numerous sadhus use Bhang to help contemplation and accomplish supernatural states. Additionally, Bhang or cannabis is likewise accepted to be prevalent amongst Sufis as a guide to profound rapture since quite a while.

Holika dahan

On the eve of Holi, normally at or after nightfall, the fire is lit, implying Holika Dahan. The custom symbolizes the triumph of good over malevolence. Individuals assemble around the flame to sing and move.

Holika Dahan Timing


Holika Dahan Timing
Holika Dahan Muhurta = 18:30 to 20:53
Duration = 2 Hours 22 Mins
Bhadra Punchha = on 22nd, March 23:45 to 01:04
Bhadra Mukha = 01:04 to 03:15

Rangwali Holi on 24th, March
Purnima Tithi Begins = 15:12 on 22/Mar/2016
Purnima Tithi Ends = 17:30 on 23/Mar/2016

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