The lord is born....
I have so many fond memories of janmashtami from my childhood days .... when i would fast the whole day imitating mummy... and by evening lose all patience... ; then , heartily accepted what my papa says...:-"UPWAS" is made up of two words UP + WAS which simply means "sameep was karna"... i.e being closer to ALMIGHTY....!!!! So, fasting is all about being closer to almighty....; with time , it happened so, that people continue with fasting and all , but nearness to GOD vanished.... ;if this element is missing, fasting is not serving the purpose then! Anyways, When I talk about memories , i really miss going to RADHA KRISHNA mandir in my hometown (jamshedpur), particularly on this pious occasion of janmashtami.....I remember, we would go there.... stay till midnight enjoying the geeta path, bhajans, and the"jhankis" with which mandir would be decorated...., there were melas too!!!! Everything would be so great royal and pious!Times have changed... all of us are at different places... but, janmashtami is still celebrated with the same fervour back home!!!Papa still goes to mandir on this day of janmashtami and return after midnight with sore throat after the four hours of continuous "paath"!
And then i remember janmashtami celebrations at our hostels in BHU,Varanasi...... it used to be so special! Whole premises would be decorated with "rangolis", girls would dress as various mythological characters and whole hostel campus would turn into brijdham and vrindavan...."maharas" enacted... "kurukshetra" enacted
lord krishna's childhood enacted .... all this would transform our otherwise dreary hostels to paradise... with bhajans floating in the air!!!!! And ,yes, there was no restriction to get in before 7pm.... we could move around the different campuses to see the celebrations....!
It was really wonderful....
I dont know what I'm going to do here today....
May be I am going to transform the whole environment in my apartment to make it bubble with the joy of lord krishna's birth.... but how...?
May be simply by putting away all the hatred against people and circumstances that is.... lying unconsciously in my heart...; putting an end to all complains that I knowingly or unknowingly harbour....!!!!!!!!!!!! This is not an easy task... so I guess:-
It is going to be a tough day ahead!!!!
Good luck to me!
(1st september'2010,stockholm)
"sarvadharmanparityajya mamekam sarnam vraj!
aham tva sarvpapevyo mokshyisyami maa shuchah!!"
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