Hello friends wishing you all a Happy
Makar Sakranti. Pardon, who is Mr. Makar and why you wishing me on his Sakranti,
I bet you must be thinking the same way, please don’t doubt. I mean this. I
never ever wish anyone before for “Makar Sakranti “. No I am not Mr. Late. I
don’t wish anyone because I simply don’t have any satisfying reason. Yes a satisfying
reason for celebration. I mean the occasion which was meant to be celebrated,
which truly brings back your child like cosmic smile & other Kodak moments
from your wardrobe.
The technical reason behind the
Makar Sakranti, which was taught to us by our bujurg dada dadi, was actually very straight forward - we should celebrate
because Sun on this very day enters into Makar Rashi (zodiac sign). So, it was
a holy moment and has to be followed by sacred bath. All this seems like a
quadratic equation.
But we, as youngsters in city,
simply not able to connect ourselves neither with the Sun nor with sacred bath.
You will surely find yourself as a laughing stock if you call someone at mid
night (as we used to do on New Year, Diwali etc.) & say Hey Pal, Happy
Makar Sakranti, come on let’s throw a party, see Sun after so much delay finally
entering into Makar Rashi. You know what it means? i.e. our future is really going
to change very soon.
Do you really thing it will work?
NO. “Makar Sakranti” by its typical Hindi Accent announces itself as a festival
which is meant only for priests and other holy man.
But yesterday, I came to know
about one more thought regarding the celebration. The picture above created by
me is based on the inputs taken from the article of Swami Tejomayaranda in
yesterday newspaper. Sorry I forget the name of newspaper. But, we can reach
him through his website http://www.chinmayamission.org/.
He interprets Makar as a Sanskrit
word which stands for Crocodile and Sakranti means turning or complete
revolution. The crocodile here symbolizes the worldly attachments that are
holding us in their firm grip. So to remind us or in the words of Swami to turn
the crocodile we should celebrate Makar Sakranti. The reason seems to be more
logical. Leave one bad habit today or if cant leave restrict it. We can
celebrate the day as No Smoking Day or Dry Day or No Adultery this weekend. I
take an oath that I will apply all those things which I just created in the
picture.
I find this reason a more
understandable & practical one and that’s why I am daring to wish you all
again HAPPY MAKAR SAKRANTI.
2 comments:
even being a blindly religious girl...i always doubt cooking of hlwas on certain occasion not religiously proved but rather invented by religious minds,and gathering of people for just mere ''gup shup'' means ''chit chat''......
well in any case..many times we don't have reason of getting depressed then why need a reason for celebration..
;-)
@Arooj true words. Invidually one don't need the reason for celebration. But when it comes to whole nation or community then u surely need some solid reason. Few of our festivals are getting lost due to the lack of clarity among people.
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