Holi - the festival of colors and cohesion

Holi in India to paint over the barriers of caste, creed and community in a mass of faces alive and vibrant colors. You know you are human, and this is what you can guess about their identity. Faces absorbed in bliss and with the face of India. And you accept them because they are playing Holi, as you are.

Holi, the festival of colors, India is rich in traditions and myths abound about his background. Holi is also inextricably linked with the culture ofLight fires, collection from branches and leaves. Culture of gathering fallen leaves, twigs, branches and burn in a bonfire on the usher in spring is a common celebration, cultures, and is in different forms in different countries. In India, Holi comes in the form of, and while in Vaishnavite traditions, burning fire comes the myth of Holika Dahan, southern India and in practice, rooted in the traditions Saivitesdifferent myth.

Holi, the festival of color Hiranyakashipu, the roots of his name on the feast commemorating the burning of the fire Holika Asura, Asura king's sister. According to myth, the son of the Asura Hiranyakashipu Prahlad was a devotee of Vishnu, the patron of Vashnavites God Vishnu was the enemy of the Asura king Hiranyakashipu was unacceptable and that his son was a follower of his mortal enemy. Hiranyakashipu tried many waysthat he had killed his son, but each has failed. Then he asked the sister Holika that should be able to return fire and safely from a blessing. Holika meet Prahlad in her lap, and the entrance to the fire. However, the Asura are not aware that the gift Holika protected only if it was only when we enter the fire. As Prahlad was with her when she entered the fire was a blessing for Holika to ashes has been protected, but was miraculously saved Prahlad chanting the nameHari, or Vishnu. To date, the burning of the bonfire before the day of Holi commemorates the victory of good over evil, the fire and saving Prahlad Holika.

However, Holi Festival color emerged later in the Vaishnavite tradition with the presentation of Lord Krishna, avatar of Vishnu last play with women and his lover Radha Vrindavan colors and spray colored water on each other with spray cans or pichkaris. ThisIn particular, Festival, festival of color is actually called Raslila and adopted in all Vaishnavite temples and churches across the country. Traditionally in India, Dahan, the burning of bonfires and Raslila Holika came to Holi, the festival of colors in combination.

Today, more than the victory of good over evil, embodied the spirit of Holi revelry and love of the Lord Krishna started while playing with his beloved Radha and other women or GopinisVrindavan.

Over time, Holi in India has come to symbolize the harmony and love and the loss of social identity, for a brief period in bright colors. The day of Holi, people exchange gifts and sweets and anoint one another with painting, the joy of life to celebrate. Holi brings the spirit of India in a way that no one else can festival of Holi has no barriers.