THE STORIES BEHIND HOLI (SPECIAL)

*INTRODUCTION:

HELLO GENTLEMEN AND WOMENS VIKRAM HERE. FIRST A FALL A GREAT APOLOGIZATION FROM OUR SIDE THAT WE HAVEN'T PUBLISHED ANY CONTENT THESE DAYS. IT ALMOST 1 MONTH OF GAP. SO TO FILL THAT TODAY I HAVE BROUGHT A DAM GOOD MYTHOLOGICAL STORIES FOR YOU. AS WE ALL KNOW TODAY IS "HOLI" ( A INDIAN CULTURAL FESTIVE CELEBRATED WITH COLOURS AND WATER EVERY YEAR AT THIS TIME ) CELEBRATED ALL OVER THE NATION. SO LET ME TAKE YOU TO A CULTURAL RIDE IN WHICH I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT THE UNBELIEVABLE STORIES AND TALES WHICH OUR GRANDPA AND GRANDMA USED TO SAY. SO LET ME NOT WASTE MUCH TIME AND HERE WE GO. TRY TO READ TILL LAST.

*ABOUT "HOLI":

AS WE ALL KNOW "HOLI" IS A INDIAN FESTIVE AND CELEBRATED EVERY YEAR WITH LOTS OF COLOURS AND WATER. BUT THERE ARE DIFFERENT NAMES OF THIS SAME FESTIVAL IN NATION. SO THESE ARE THE COMMON THING ABOUT THIS FESTIVAL. SO LET ME TAKE YOU TO THE MAIN THING AND THEME OF THIS BLOG. AND HERE WE GO.

*CHARACTERS IN THE STORY:

HIRANYAKSHA - MAIN CHARACTER / FATHER OF PRAHLAD

PRAHLAD - SON OF HIRANYAKSHA 

VISHNU - A HOLY GOD 

BRAHMA - A ANOTHER HOLY GOD 

HOLIKA - SISTER OF HIRANYAKSHA 

KRISHNA - A INCARNATION OF LORD VISHNU

NARASIMHA - A INCARNATION OF LORD VISHNU.

[ THIS STORY IS FULLY MYTHICAL AND BASED ON PEOPLE'S BELIEF ]

*STORY BEHIND HOLI:

HIRANYAKSHA WAS A HOLY MAN AND USED TO PRAY LORD BRAHMA  EVERYDAY AND HE NEVER FAILS. HIS DETERMINATION AND DEDICATION TOWARDS BRAHMA CAME TO AN END. LORD BRAHMA GOT IMPRESSED WITH THE HARD AND DEDICATED WORSHIP OF HIRANYAKSHA AND MANIFESTED INFRONT OF HIM. AND GRANTED HIM A BLESSING. HIRANYAKSHA WAS VERY HAPPY AND SAID " I WANT TO BE INEVITABLE GIVE ME A BLESSING THAT NO ONE CAN KILL ME NEITHER IN MORNING NOR IN EVENING OR NOT BY HUMAN OR BY ANIMAL NOT ON EARTH OR IN ANY OTHER PLANET EVEN NOT BY ANY WEAPON." SO AFTER SAYING THIS BRAHMA SAID " OK HIRANYA TATHASTU" ("TATHASTU" MEANS AMEN ) AND FADED OFF. 

AFTER GETTING BLESSINGS FROM BRAHMA. HIRANYAKSHA STARTED CRUELTY ON PEOPLE THAT THEY SHOULD NOT WORSHIP ANY GOD NEITHER BRAMHA NOR VISHNU AND THE PEOPLE SHOULD ONLY WORSHIP HIRANYAKSHA. DUE TO EXTREME CRUELTY PEOPLE STARTED WORSHIPING HIM. LATER HE BECAME THE KING OF THAT LAND BUT HE HAVEN'T STOPPED THERE AND STARTED ATTACKING OTHER PLACES ON EARTH AND HEAVEN. LATER HIRANYAKSHA HAD A CHILD NAMED "PRAHLAD" AND HE WAS GREAT DEVOTEE OF LORD VISHNU. HE ALWAYS USED WORSHIP VISHNU  INSTEAD OF WORSHIPING HIS OWN FATHER. BY SEEING THIS HIRANYAKSHA GOT ANGRY AND INSTRUCTED PRAHLAD TO WORSHIP HIM NOT VISHNU. BUT PRAHLAD REFUSED AND STARTED PRAYING VISHNU AGAIN.

NOW HIRANYAKSHA GOT MORE ANGER AND STARTED TRYING TO KILL HIS OWN SON FOR NOT OBEYING HIS ORDERS. SO AFTER THAT HIRANYAKSHA TRIED ALMOST EVERYTHING TO KILL PRAHLAD BUT HE FAILED. SOME OF THEM WERE LIKE SO CRUEL LIKE LETTING HIS SON TO EAT POISONOUS FOOD, LEAVING HIS SON IN A ROOM WITH MOST POISONOUS SNAKES AND MORE LIKE THIS BUT PRAHLAD GOT NO HURT BY THOSE SNAKES AND FOOD IT IS BECAUSE HE WAS BLESSED BY LORD VISHNU. SO NOTHING HARMED PRAHLAD. SO NOW HIRANYAKSHA WAS SO ANGRY AND AWFUL AND GOT HELP FROM HIS SISTER HOLIKA.

HOLIKA IS THE SISTER OF HIRANYAKSHA AND AUNT OF PRAHLAD. HIRANYAKSHA SAID TO HIS SISTER IN A AWFUL TONE THAT HOLIKA I AM PISSED NOW I HAVE TRIED ALMOST EVERYTHING ON PRAHLAD BUT NOTHING WORKS BETTER SO I NEED YOUR HELP YOU HAVE TO KILL PRAHLAD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE I WANT TO SEE HIM DIE. AFTER HEARING THAT HOLIKA REPLIED "OK BROTHER I HAVE A IDEA THAT I WILL SIT IN THE "AGNI" ( AGNI MEANS FIRE ) WITH PRAHLAD AND I WILL WEAR A SHAWL OVER ME WHICH WILL HELP ME TO PROTECT FROM FIRE AND NOT PRAHLAD AND LATER HE WILL DIE".

SO AFTER HEARING THIS HIRANYAKSHA AGREED AND INSTRUCTED TO PREPARE A PIT OF WOOD WITH HIGH FLAME OF FIRE ON IT. SO EVERYTHING WAS SET AND HIRANYAKSHA WAS VERY MUCH EGAR TO KILL HIS SON. LATER HOLIKA CARRYING PRAHLAD SAT ON FIRE PIT WITH WEARING A MAGICAL SHAWL. SO A MAGICAL INSTANCE OCCURED THE SHAWL WHICH WAS WORE BY HOLIKA WAS FLEW AND FELL ON PRAHLAD'S HEAD. AND FORTUNATELY PRAHLAD WAS SAVED AND HOLIKA BURNT IN THE FIRE PIT.

AFTER THAT INCIDENT LORD VISHNU GOT ANGRY SENT A INCARNATION OF HIM NAMED "NARASIMHA" ( NARASIMHA IS ONE OF THE INCARNATION OF LORD VISHNU ) SO LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT NARASIMHA. BASICALLY NARASIMHA IS A MUTANT OF ANIMAL AND HUMAN. AND NEITHER CONSIDER AS HUMAN NOR AS ANIMAL. NARASIMHA KILLED HIRANYAKSHA WITH HIS MASSIVE NAILS. AND AFTER THIS PEOPLE STARTED ASSUMING THAT ITS A VICTORY ON BAD ENTITIES. AND AS HOLIKA DIED DUE TO HER BAD INTENTION LATER IT IS CELEBRATED AS HOLI AS A FESTIVE ALL OVER THE WORLD.

IN THIS DAY PEOPLE USED TO BURN THE WOODEN STICK AND PRAY FOR THEIR WELL BEING AND DESTRUCTION OF THE NEGATIVE THINGS AROUND THEM. AND THIS IS HOW WE CELEBRATE HOLI AROUND OUR NATION.

BUT YOU MAY ASK "AS YOU SAID WAS GOOD BUT WHY PEOPLE USED TO CELEBRATE THIS DAY ONLY WITH COLOURS ? 

YEAH I AGREE EVEN I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS AND READ LOT OF ARTICLE IN THAT I FOUND THIS ONE THING LET ME TELL YOU AS WE ALL KNOW THAT KRISHNA WAS THE 8TH AVATAR ( AVATAR MEANS INCARNATION OF GOD ) OF LORD VISHNU. KRISHNA USED TO CELEBRATE THIS DAY WITH COLOURS WHICH ARE MADE UP OF FLOWERS. LATER IT WAS STARTED SPREADING PEOPLE STARTED ADMIRING THOSE MYTHOLOGICAL FACTS AND NOVELS AND STARTED CELEBRATING THIS DAY GRANDLY WITH COLOURS AND WATER. SO THIS WAS ALL MYTHOLOGICAL STORIES BEHIND HOLI. 

*CONCLUSION:

SO I HOPE  THE ABOVE MENTIONED STORY WAS CLEAR AND UNDERSTANDABLE. SO WHAT THIS MYTHOLOGICAL STORY TEACH US. IT SAYS DEATH IS INEVITABLE EVERYONE WHO TAKES BIRTH IN THIS WORLD SHOULD HAVE TO LEAVE THIS PLACE ONCE. AS THIS IS MYTHICAL BUT THE FACTS AND NATURE'S RULE WHICH ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS STORY WAS SO GOOD AND REAL. AS HIRANYAKSHA GOT LOT OF BOASTING AND OVERCONFIDENCE THAT HE WILL NEVER DIE AND HE IS INEVITABLE IN NATURE AS GOD. WHICH MADE HIM MORE WEAKER AND WEAKER AT LAST HIS BOASTING CAME TO AN END AND DIED. HOLIKA WHO WAS THE SISTER OF HIRANYAKSHA SUPPORTED HIM AND TRIED TO KILL HIS OWN BROTHER'S SON AND LATER SHE DIED. SO THIS MYTHICAL STORY GIVES A REMEMBRANCE THAT BIRTH AND DEATH ARE CONSTANT THE ONLY THING WHICH IS TEMPORARY IS WE PEOPLE AS A LIFE WE HAVE TO LEAVE A DAY WHICH IS ALREADY FIXED. SO RATHER HURTING OTHERS WE SHOULD SPREAD LOVE AND PEACE WITH PEOPLE. SO HERE I WOULD LIKE TO END MY TALK AND WILL MEET SUPER SOON.. REALLY VERY SOON AS POSSIBLE... BEFORE ENDING I WOULD LIKE TO WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY HOLI 2021. THANK YOU.

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WRITTEN BY: VIKRAM P

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CREDIT:

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ENDING WITH A QUOTE:

" LIFE IS A BRIDGE WHICH HAS TWO ENDS BIRTH AND DEATH WHICH HAS NO OTHER WAY TO PASS THROUGH "