Today, I wish you all a very Happy Diwali! May God give you the great success you deserve in your life.
May God brighten up your future with positivity & prosperity. Happy Diwali 2021!
Diwali is the time to spread love and joy, it is the time to make hearts happy…. Make this Diwali a special one by making someone smile… Happy Diwali.
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I hope you all have already decided how to celebrate Halloween. For me, it is more about making my daughter happy and letting her know that it’s her day to enjoy face make-up and not to continue it until Christmas. Hahaha!! She loves it and my lipsticks too. Anyways, I bought myself “vampire’s teeth” so that I can flaunt in Red lipstick. Besides, it was the only choice left for me as becoming a vampire is all about showing off some fake “Teeth” and exaggerated blood-sucking expressions like “vampire Diaries” Bingo!
So, my friends, wishing you the best Halloween ever. I hope you get to spend a great time with your loved ones & get a spooky night. After all, it’s Halloween!
Enjoy this celebration with good laughs. Bring some of your childhood memories back, play tricks-treats and relish your day with lots of candies.
Wish you the spookiest Halloween ever!
Thank you!
Being an Indian, diversity is a key that invites different occasions & festivals, and Sharad Purnima is one of them. Purnima means “Full Moon”. Before we start, I would like to clarify that everybody knows the moon does not have its own light. But the festival like Sharad Purnima has some other theories mentioned in Ved Puran Shastras & people have been practicing it for thousands of years in India.
Recently we celebrated it. So, yes! It is an auspicious day for us. Usually, back home in India, we celebrate it with our family and extended friends & family. It is all about bringing food to one table and enjoying the feast with a special dish known as “Basundi”.
“Basundi” is a dessert that is just like condensed milk, but a little a bit runny mixed with all the favorite dry fruits and Kesar (Saffron).
You will find plenty of other variations to perform this pooja (worship). Since I belong to Maharashtra state (MH) India, I would like to explain how we celebrate it.the videos on it.
On this day, we (My family) worship Lord “Shiva” and Goddess “Parvati”. It becomes “Shiv Parvati”. Food choices vary from snacks to preparing the main course. In the evening time, all friends gather and sing devotional songs, perform a pooja. This way family & friends come together to greet each other and enjoy the evening. “Basundi” is a must-have dessert, else Sharad Purnima will be incomplete without it.
As soon as the full moon rises, at night we take a small or medium pot/container full of milk and put it on the terrace floor or take it somewhere out in the open so that moonlight (beams) can hit the milk in the pot, and gets infused with it. This process takes 10-15 min. Once we are satisfied, we return to the kitchen and pour the milk into another milk container, which is already sitting on the burner for the last approx 1 hr (Medium flame). Then there will be the series of episodes where family members will come and suggest that dessert is ready, but sometimes all we can do is disagree so then it takes a little more time to serve dessert of the night aka “Basundi”. Once it is ready, now it’s time to dig in and enjoy the night with food, snack, and dessert.
Our ancestors say, Sharad Purnima (Moonrise) possesses powerful beams & when it blends in with a Milk, it becomes holy-Milk (Like holy water). A pat on my back. Yes! I explained it pretty much well.
So, on this day I clebrated it & made special “PAV BHAJI” & “BASUNDI”.
Here I have presented my thoughts that I believe in. People celebrate it distinctly as per their practice and rituals in various parts of India.
Thank you so much for stopping by and reading post!
“Dussehra” is an Indian festival. Today, on this very auspicious day, I wish you all a very happy “Dussehra” or “Vijayadashami”. May God take all your worries, pain & sorrow away and bestow you with a prosperous happy & healthy life.
Today, I started my day watching a motivational youtube video of Shri. Gaurgopaldas and I thought sharing with you guys. I like when he said,
“Great personalities are not born in the maternity ward but created by choice.”
GAURGOPALDAS #WECAN
Thank you much!
A warm regards,
SONALI VAIDYA
India is well known for its diversity, different cultures, and various regional languages.
If you have any Indian friends around you then you might have heard about the “Diwali” or “Holi” celebration a lot. But Have you heard about “Raksha Bandhan” also knows as “Rakhi”?
Since Rakhi is just around the corner I thought sharing its importance and why Indians celebrate it with enthusiasm.
So it is the Hindu festival but these days seems it has become very popular among Indians irrespective of religion. It is a very unique way to celebrate the love of a brother for his sister. Quite interesting, right!
Again I would like to mention that Indians usually follow their regional yearly calendar to check auspicious date or time called “Mahurat” to perform or to begin any ceremony. So like I said they go by their timetable, and as per the Hindu calendar, it is “SHRAVAN” month. A very divine and sacred month.
The history of Raksha Bandhan lies in a Hindu mythological great epic story “Mahabharata”. Even if I wish, It would be hard to explain each n every character and the storyline in detail here in this post. So leave it for some other day.
Instead of getting into story details, Let’s see how people love to celebrate it.
“Rakhi” or “Raksha Bandhan” is celebrated in the month of “Shravan” (July 23-Aug 22) as per the Hindu Calendar. On this day girls get one more day to flaunt in their best outfit. A day for a brother to express his caring n loving attitude towards sisters.
A day starts with a very beautiful morning. One can feel the festivity in the air. First ray of sun touching the soul with great joy. I wish I could express that enthusiasm in the words.
Great importance to a “Rakhi means Band”. A colorful thread. Sister ties “Rakhi” on the wrist of their brothers and in exchange brother promises his sister he will stand by her side in any circumstances. It also means brother will always protect her sister and save her from evil eyes. Sisters also pray for their happiness.
The best thing is like I do not have any brother but we still have cousins (Brothers). So there must be many girls/women like me who do not have real brother. Yet they get to celebrate it with the same amount of love. Again not just about cousins, even you have somebody in your life with a “brotherly” figure. You can definitely celebrate it with a mutual understanding.
A very unique right? Yes, Indeed it is!
Let me know how you celebrate or express your love for your brothers or siblings. Hope you like today’s blog.
Thank you so much.
Revivelifewithme