Krishna JanmaashTami
Tomorrow is Krishna JanmaashTami and when I think about how it is being celebrated, I just feel it is a total mockery of the entire purpose or sometimes even wonder whether there is any purpose in celebrating it all.
12-13 years back, when I was a kid of about the age of 6, on the day of JanmaashTami, as usual my mother had drawn those small feet out of Kola maavu ( Rangoli Hittu) all the way from the door of the house to the Pooja room. Innocently, when the kid went to her and asked why she had made those feet, she told him just like any other mother would have that Lord Krishna would be coming home and this was the path he would take from the door to the Pooja room. The innocent kid then didn't realise that it was just an imagination but believed in his mother totally. He ran about in the verandah for an hour and kept asking his mother when Krishna would come and she kept telling he would be coming soon. The poor mother couldn't tell the child the truth. But when his mother called him for having food, he burst out crying and was so adamant that he said he wouldn't eat until Krishna came. But I don't remember how his mother convinced him, but probably she managed to convince him and made him have his food.
When I think about the way it is celebrated, it makes me laugh. What a whole lot of imagination!
But as a young boy, I used to await this festival because it was one festival on which we made a lot of eatables like cheedai, murukku, taTTai, thE~ngozhal, and a whole variety of sweets. Just imagine this. We put all this rangoli and say child Krishna is coming and make these eatables, which cannot even be chewed by him. And we also decide the way in which Krishna has to come into our house. We don't want him to come by the balcony or the bathroom. We want him to enter only through the main door. If Krishna had entered our house on JanmaashTami, he should have stayed with us and we needn't have to invite him every year. Then why do we celebrate it every year? When and why did he go away? Then shouldn't there be a day we should mourn for his departure. You can keep on asking such questions for ever and no one will be able to answer. All these festivals are really for us having fun and there is no Godliness or God involved in it. We want a day to have fun and we have fun in the name of God. I would say just enjoy on some random day, make sweets and have fun. Why involve God in your enjoyment?
Yet, JanmaashTami is an important festival because it is the birthday of the Yuga Purusha. Those who are sincere in their approach towards God Realisation will surely be blessed by the Yuga Purusha. But for the others, it is another day for enjoyment amidst the stressful days.
12-13 years back, when I was a kid of about the age of 6, on the day of JanmaashTami, as usual my mother had drawn those small feet out of Kola maavu ( Rangoli Hittu) all the way from the door of the house to the Pooja room. Innocently, when the kid went to her and asked why she had made those feet, she told him just like any other mother would have that Lord Krishna would be coming home and this was the path he would take from the door to the Pooja room. The innocent kid then didn't realise that it was just an imagination but believed in his mother totally. He ran about in the verandah for an hour and kept asking his mother when Krishna would come and she kept telling he would be coming soon. The poor mother couldn't tell the child the truth. But when his mother called him for having food, he burst out crying and was so adamant that he said he wouldn't eat until Krishna came. But I don't remember how his mother convinced him, but probably she managed to convince him and made him have his food.
When I think about the way it is celebrated, it makes me laugh. What a whole lot of imagination!
But as a young boy, I used to await this festival because it was one festival on which we made a lot of eatables like cheedai, murukku, taTTai, thE~ngozhal, and a whole variety of sweets. Just imagine this. We put all this rangoli and say child Krishna is coming and make these eatables, which cannot even be chewed by him. And we also decide the way in which Krishna has to come into our house. We don't want him to come by the balcony or the bathroom. We want him to enter only through the main door. If Krishna had entered our house on JanmaashTami, he should have stayed with us and we needn't have to invite him every year. Then why do we celebrate it every year? When and why did he go away? Then shouldn't there be a day we should mourn for his departure. You can keep on asking such questions for ever and no one will be able to answer. All these festivals are really for us having fun and there is no Godliness or God involved in it. We want a day to have fun and we have fun in the name of God. I would say just enjoy on some random day, make sweets and have fun. Why involve God in your enjoyment?
Yet, JanmaashTami is an important festival because it is the birthday of the Yuga Purusha. Those who are sincere in their approach towards God Realisation will surely be blessed by the Yuga Purusha. But for the others, it is another day for enjoyment amidst the stressful days.
2 Comments:
Man..!!!
What you ve said is absolutely true and hilarious....!!! ehehe...!!!
All of that is true...but you pose the same thing to the elders and lemme know the answers that they give...
Yea,most of...wait...i think ALL of the festivals are there for us to have fun dats it......We have fun in GOD's name ashte...!!!!
nice questions btw...!!!
yes, i agree that all the festivals that we do are for fun. but the question is if we become elders, will we still continue to do all these nonsense or will we be more rational? will we really try to know the truth and do what is originally intended?
i hope we do. and not just enjoy in the name of God.
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