Meaningful Message on Holi -- with the best compliments of Dr. Leo Rebello

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|| Pujya Bapuji's Holi Message ||

Holi is not merely a festival of burning a heap of dung cakes and wood. Rather it is a pious day for removing one's psychological weakness and burning the evil desires.

From this day, we should throw out our evil desires and cultivate in our life the divine virtues of love for God, goodwill, sympathy, faith in the chosen Divinity, fearlessness, steadfast adherence to Dharma, etc.

We should invoke in our lives the virtues of the great devotee - Prahlada, viz. a firm belief in God, tolerance, forgiveness, love for the Lord, compassion, benevolence, non-violence, etc.

The colours of Holi, colour only the body. Yoy should colour your heart with the Divine love. Holi is the festival of nature; it is the celebration of spring; it is a pious observance of the tradition of offering newly harvested grains to the Lord before using the same. One should stop taking dates from this day onwards.

Holi is the festival of burning down our vices, addictions and evil tendencies and of imbibing virtues. Holi is a life giving drug that rejuvenates our sadhana. It spreads the message of love in the society. Take constant care not to insult, slander or harm anybody by your impertinence or arrogance. Guard against circumstances that tend to colour you with poisonous hue of addictions. You should rather colour yourself only with colour of devotion to Lord........of Self bliss, in which Lord and His beloved saints abide......and colour yourself so fast that the colour should never fade away.

It is very harmful to play Holi with poisonous chemical colours. It is beneficial to play Holi with colours prepared from Palash flowers. This keeps the seven colours and dhatus of the body in equilibrium, protects the skin and increase the body's resistance power against heat.

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