Less noise, more tranquility - Random Diwali thoughts

Monday, October 16, 2006 Less noise, more tranquillity – Random Diwali thoughts. 1. Why are we bursting crackers on Diwali? In fact crackers should be banned and the whole industry re-allotted a different profession - the computer industry, maybe. 2. The sooner we see the practice of giving gifts on Diwali to actually be an ugly manifestation of materialism, the quicker we would become more cultured. 3. All Hindu festivals should be occasions of temple going or meditating with prayers and silence. Even our Ganapati mandals have become lavish materialistic affairs. We should henceforth have only minute and symbolic Ganesha’s in the mandals, sans blaring of mikes and sales of lottery. 4. Our Navarathri dances too should be sans blaring mikes and garish dressing. Why, you would get a more graceful rhythm with synchronized clapping of hands and the bansuri than those horrendous drums. 5. Our Hindu society has begun to believe that nothing can be done without money. But I ask, do you need money to pray to God? Do you need money to dance, to smile? To love . . . ? What pooja can be more powerful then the chanting of mantras – OM NAMO SHIVAYA, for instance? 6. We should actually not even use flowers in our pooja, for why pluck those lovely things off their mother plant, paining it? 7. We should begin a new tradition of daily, in groups and in turns, dedicating a portion of our time to cleanse the temple and its precincts nearest us so that we come to experience that Cleanliness is Godliness. 9:51:46 PM Posted By Venu Gopal Comments (0) Uncategorized