Holi, the festival of joy and gaiety, the festival of coloring and coloring Holi. Such a festival, in which the face color is, does not matter, because every face is painted with colorful color. Gujiya, Namkeen, Different types of dishes, Ubatan and Gulal are visible colors of Holi. Planning towards the inner being, this is a big message of the paint for life. Holi is a festival to break all taboos with dignities. This tradition is more scientific than social and is spiritual in its original form.
What Braj, what Awadh, what Kashi and what Punjab-Bengal and Gujarat. Somewhere with the color, somewhere with the color, somewhere with the dust, somewhere with the gulal, the more beliefs and more of the folklore. Where the color of Holi came out of, what to know, but whoever started, would know that the colors that are contained in the depths of the mind are true and the name of exposing them is Holi. From the Puranas to the modern period, it has been a festival with many names. Sometimes, stories like Madanotsav, sometimes Holika, Hola Utsav, Vasantotsav, Phagua and Bhi Kya-Kya, like this name.
Mythology related to Holi
Many stories are associated with the festival of Holi. The most famous story of these is Prahlad’s. According to Vishnu Purana and Bhagwat Purana- in ancient times there was a demon king named Hiranyakashyapa. By doing penance to Brahmadev, he asked for such a boon, which made his natural death impossible and he became almost equal to getting immortal. Now his atrocities increased. He had banned the name of Lord Vishnu in his kingdom.
Hiranyakashyap’s son Prahlad Narayan was a devotee. Enraged by Prahlada’s Vishnu devotion, Hiranyakashyap gave him many harsh punishments, but he did not leave the path of devotion to God. Hiranyakashyap’s sister Holika had a boon that she could not be consumed in the fire. Hiranyakashyap ordered that Holika took Prahlada in the fire. Holika was burnt when he sat in the fire, but Prahlad survived. Holi is lit on this day in memory of devotee Prahlada.
The hidden secret of this story is very beautiful. The meaning of the word Prahlada is the attainment of joy. Holika (burning wood), a symbol of enmity and oppression, burns and Prahlada (Anand), a symbol of love and gaiety, survives.
Apart from the story of Prahlada, this festival is also associated with the rebirth of Radha Krishna, Radha Krishna and Cupid. Some people believe that by applying color in Holi, dancing and singing, people disguise Shiva’s ganas and make a scene of Shiva’s procession. Some people also believe that Lord Krishna killed a demon named Pootana on this day. In this Khushi, the gopis and gwals played Raslila and played color.
Story of end of demonic dhundi
A similar story is also associated with King Raghu of Raghuvansh. There was a demon named Dhundi in his kingdom, who got a boon from Lord Shiva. Dhundi did not ask for a boon to prevent crazy and children. He had sought a boon from Bholenath that he should not harm him with the deity, demons and weapons. After hearing such things, Lord Shiva became intact there by saying Aastastu.
Now Dhundi started creating uproar. When the people troubled by the wrath of demon went to King Raghu, they sought help from Vashistha Muni for freedom from demon. Maharishi Vasistha knew about the boon, then he said that, while playing, only the noise or hooddang of the children will be the cause of his death. Assuming his advice, on the day of Phalgun Purnima, all the children gathered and started dancing and singing.
On Falgun Shukla Purnima, children were collected to children all over the state and prepared a pile of cow dung. Together, a huge pile was made from dry leaves, dry twigs of trees. Gathering around this, the children started making a hurry. During this, the demon reached there after seeing the herd of children and hid in the pile built by the people of the village. Then the fire was burnt by the mantra and the demon became ashes in it. On the day of Holika Dahan, the garland of cow dung is made, they are called dhundari or gulria.
The next day the children played Holi by blowing it ashes and since then the name of this festival became Holi.
Sri Krishna’s childhood and story of Pootana Slaughter
The same similar story is also of Shri Krishna’s childhood. When Kansa came to know that his destroyer had been born and was moving away from Mathura in Gokul, he sent one of his Dhai Pootana, who was demonic, sent him to Gokul. He told Pootna that two nights, who are the newborn baby of the last six months, kill them.
Putna reached Gokul by making the toys seller selled and started beating all the newborns by feeding her milk. There was chaos in Gokul. In this way Pootana also reached Krishna’s house and secretly picked up the newborn Krishna and started feeding milk, but Krishna drank his life instead of milk. Pootana was killed. When she died, her size became terrible. People saw Krishna playing on the body of giant Pootana.
On the death of Pootna, the people of Gokul celebrated happiness and burnt her body and consumed it. Since she had given Krishna her milk right for a moment only for a moment, she became a mother, not a demon, but a mother.
Actually, Pootana was the sister of King Bali in a previous birth. When Lord Vishnu came to Vamana Avatar to ask for donations from Bali, Bali’s sister was impressed to see him and wished that he would have been my son. Then after a while, when Vamana took the whole kingdom of sacrifice with deceit, immediately the sentiments of the sacrifice changed and he said in his mind, such a child should be poisoned as soon as he is born.
Parambrahma listened to both his feelings and promised to fulfill it. The idea of ​​giving poison as soon as a child is born is a demonic idea, so Bali’s sister became a demon in the next life. Krishna killed him and made him an officer of salvation and even today, Pootna is known as Gokul’s protective in Braj.
Pootna was burnt and her ashes were put at the door of every house in Gokul, so that she could protect them from all kinds of bad eyesight. Even today, his ash is brought from the Pootna temple in Gokul and the children are noticed. Children who have bad dreams, are more afraid of darkness, Pootna protects them. A beginning of the tradition of Holi is also believed to be from Pootna slaughter. During that time, happiness was celebrated by blowing color on the slaughter of Pootna in Gokul.
When Shivji consumed Kamdev
A story of Holi is also associated with Kamdev, the god of marriage and love of Shiva-Parvati. It happened that the demon had a boon to Tarakasura that his slaughter would be at the hands of Shiva son. Shiva got married to Sati but consumed himself in Sati in a skilled yagna. In this way, Tarakasura’s atrocities increased further. Here Goddess Sati again was born as Parvati. Mother Parvati wanted to marry Mahadev, but Lord Shiva, immersed in yoga and penance, did not pay attention to her.
Seeing this confusion of Mata Parvati, the gods sent Kamdev to help her and said that she should awaken the work spirit inside Shiva with her work arrows. Cupid drove a flower arrow on him to dissolve the penance of Mahadev. Due to this arrow, Mahadev’s third eye opened and his anger was consumed in the fire. As soon as Cupid was consumed, his wife Rati started mourning. Then all the gods came there and told Shivji that Kamdev was innocent. Then Shiva made him alive, but his body was consumed, so he was called Anang. Then Lord Vishnu gave him a boon that Kamadeva will be born in his son form and he will be able to get his body again and Goddess Rati will get married to him.
Cupid tried to awaken Shiva for eight days and he was consumed, so it is a time of Holashtak for the first eight days of Holi. During this time no auspicious work is done. On the full moon day of Phalgun month, he was burnt, the lust of Kamdev’s lust was revealed as a love and Cupid was created in a bodiless man, and then the marriage of Shiva-Parvati became the sum of marriage, the gods celebrated this coincidence and celebrated the joy by blowing flowers in the joy of this coincidence, which made the tradition of playing Holi on this day.