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 Why  do we celebrate spiritual festivals?

 Festivals are not for fun, but to prepare the mind to enjoy the fun of life.

 see the list of 2014 Festivals, its  real objective and how we celebrate it. 

 

  2014 Festivals   Real Objective Now celebrated by  
Tue 14-Jan Makarsankranti / Pongal To have the awareness that all forms of Energy is from the divine and expressed in the form including the fundamental Food Energy. Sun as source of energy, cows for milk and agriculture) , which brings sweetness in life.  This is brought in the awareness by doing the rituals like pongal. In other places that Energy is observed as light like in Sabarimala. Only cooking and eating sweet rice and sugar cane.  
Tue 4-Feb Vasant Panchami To welcome spring with the awareness of always having hope in life and passing through sorrows (winter) in life.  Feasting with lot of variety of foods  
Thu 27-Feb Maha Shivaratri To awaken our inner awareness of the unmanifest of spiritual form of energy. Staying awake whole night by overcoming sleep.  
Mon 17-Mar Holi To have the awareness of changing the hostile-system sticking on to Truth whith Self-involvement to enjoy the colors of life Just throw colors on others  
Mon 31-Mar Telugu/Kannada, Hindi New Year/ Ugadi To have the awareness to accept the failures and success in life as learning lessons Eat bitter neem and sweet jaggery mix together.  
Tue 8-Apr Ramanavami To have the awareness of great leadership qualities within us as lived by Lord Ram and Sita. Mere recitation of the story of Ram  
Mon 14-Apr Vaishaki/Baisakhi / Vishu/Chitra-kani To have Self awareness of seeking and reflecting the highest and best in life. Merely looking at mirror and Gold and yellow objects  
Tue 15-Apr Hanuman Jayanti To have the awareness of doing service to the soceity Mere chanting of Sundarkhand of Ramayana.  
Fri 2-May Akshaya Tritiya To generate Self Awareness Energy, the   unchanging currency value that brings all prosperity in life. Merely buying gold and silver  
Thu 12-Jun Savitri Pooja To have unbroken awareness of Purusha (unmanifesting Energy) within ourself. Merely done only by women for the longevity of their husbands  
Sat 12-Jul Guru Purnima To have the awareness of teacher (Guru) who shows the reality of this life. Merely offerign flowers and singing glory of a teacher  
Fri 1-Aug Nag Panchami To have the awareness of our manifesting energy within us (Kundalini) and transform into spiritual energy Merely worshipping or killing pisonous snakes  
Sun 10-Aug Raksha-Bandhan To have the awareness and of gratitude with fellow beings and acknolwedge the help they offered in our lives Merely tying colorful threads in arm  
Sun 17-Aug Krishna Janmashtami To have the awareness of having divinity or inequality within us as lived by Lord Krishna Merely eating sweets what baby krishna liked.  
Fri 29-Aug Ganesh Chaturthi To initiate the Awareness to higher Self Merely making idols and drowning and polluting oceans.  
Sun 7-Sep Onam To confront the awareness of Self surrendering the Ego, the only creation of human beings. Feasting and boasting  
Tue 9-Sep Pitr-Paksha begins To have the awareness of ancestors and showing gratitude to heritage Merely offering rice to ancestors  
Thu 25-Sep Navaratri begins Rejuvenate Kundalini Energy for propserity in life to finally reach the Parama-Purusha Merely feasting and dancing and begging for prosperity  
Sat 4-Oct Dusshera To have the awareness of evil qualities which can only be removed by following the foot steps of inspiring lives lived by great people. Merely doing processions  
Sat 11-Oct Karva Chauth To have unbroken awareness of Purusha (unmanifesting Energy) within ourself. Merely done only by women for the longevity of their husbands  
Tue 21-Oct Dhan Teras/yama pooja/ Diwali To have the light of Awareness of our Self to have contentment in life, the sweeting attitude of life Merely boasting with new dress and eating lots of sweets  
Thu 6-Nov Kartik Poornima To have the full awareness of death and life as celebrated in Kashi Merely light lamps in kashi, the land of Moksha  
Wed 31-Dec Vaikunta Ekadeshi To have the Awareness of final entry to the state of Moksha Merely witnessing Lord vishnu entering through the seven doors  
         

Source - Self Awareness living in Bharath - Published in Dec 2014.

 

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1. Navarathri The 10 day festival to gain inner strength.

2. Deepavali This festivals of light brings inner light.

3. Onam The  Ego shadow is surrendered to the light of  Supreme Consciousness.

4. Holi This joyous celebration of colors is about the Unconditional Love.

5. Vishu (New Year) This Cosmetic Contemplation of mind every year.

 

Pongal

When someone hurts us with words, we blame them for several days or several years or life times. Infact the reality is that we enjoy that pain by replaying it in our minds like a dog that licks the blood that oozes out of its own wounds. We dont understand that   the pain gives only fake happiness. The real happiness comes like eating a sugarcane when we forgive that person and patch the relationship. This is why today on Bhogi day, we burn  the old painful thoughts  in this fire of right understanding (knowledge) so that  we can enjoy Bhogam in our life. Happy Bhogi from Uni5 Sakthi Foundation.

 

Sakthi Foundation wishes everyone Happy Pongal.
On this special day, we want to share the reason why we celebrate this beautiful festival.
We often share actors’ dialogues from movies and praise them by pouring flowers and milk into their cutouts. We consider them our heroes because of our emotional attachment to their emotional words and think that are real.
For example, we don’t do respectful pooja to freedom fighters and quote their words or the work they have done for society. But, we draw inspiration from actors who acted as a freedom fighter. We keep pictures of the actor and remember them always. We forget the reality that the actor is just an actor and channeled the dialogues of freedom fighters.
We self-fool ourselves and forget reality. Then we start to lead a life of irresponsibility. We like the actor who only gives dialogues in life and advice and never practices what freedom fighters did. In a few years then we experience only problems because we created a fake society of actors and cheaters. This also happens in spirituality.
People who talk Scriptures and give good talks are being adorned. We then ignore the real people who put scriptures in action. People who are bookish cannot give solutions. Same with the health industry. Most of them give health advice based on their books and what company representatives tell them. They cannot solve the health issues of people.
The same with education also. We only speak words from books. We did not work it out. Then we do not know to solve problems. We then face only problems. Then we become frustrated with life and then seek ways to hide it.
We should seek Reality and not fakeness. We should take action then only we experience real knowledge. Farmers are real workers who produce food for us. They should be heroes and not actors who act like a farmer. Pongal is the day we worship Sun indirectly the Farmer and Cow who nourishes us and the soil. Before that Bhogi is the day we burn ignorance and fakeness and fake understanding in the knowledge of fire. All wasteful things and thoughts we burn out and start a new life every year.
Happy Pongal from Uni5 Sakthi Foundation.

 

When someone hurts us with words, we blame them for several days or several years or life times. Infact the reality is that we enjoy that pain by replaying it in our minds like a dog that licks the blood that oozes out of its own wounds. We dont understand that   the pain gives only fake happiness. The real happiness comes like eating a sugarcane when we forgive that person and patch the relationship. This is why today on Bhogi day, we burn  the old painful thoughts  in this fire of right understanding (knowledge) so that  we can enjoy Bhogam in our life. Happy Bhogi from Uni5 Sakthi Foundation.

 

On Kaanum Pongal Day, we see our family, which means ‘Yaathum Oorae Yaavarum Kaelir’.  We see (Kaanum) the family not with gifts because gifts are not an Indian tradition. We see the family and help them meet their needs which could be physical, emotional, intellectual, financial, or spiritual.

On Kaanum Pongal Day we render this help for both our Micro and Macro Family (Society). This responsibility alone will build a prosperous and peaceful Society.

Taking care of only our Micro Family is Selfish and has and will cause so many social problems. This is the only way to overcome your Ego and realize your Selfless Nature or Love. That Selfless Love is God whom you are worshipping and seeking. 

What you give only you will get back. That is why they say in Tamil ‘Koduththu Vatchavan’. For example, if your profession is running a catering business for a living and if your micro family eats it all without selling to the macro society, soon you cannot sustain your family. If there is no business, you end up with no income and land in poverty at all Five Levels.

This is the concept of Self-sustainability in our Indian Culture.  Not knowing the concept and meaning behind celebrating all Indian festivals and seeking fun is like licking the word “Sugar” in a printed paper and trying to experience Sweetness. Uni5 Sakthi Foundation

  

 

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