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Happy Holi 2017!
- Thread starter ShivaFan
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Holika Dahan or the burning of Holika will happen Sunday night around 10 pm the evening before Holi on Monday. This year however I won't throw colors, but will burn Holika.
I will setup a pyre, albeit tiny one, and set Holika - made like "straw + rags doll" - to burn her in my backyard. A type of "nut" found on trees here, is convenient as her head with "face" painted. I would like to light a green sparkler but do not have any right now.
I will setup a pyre, albeit tiny one, and set Holika - made like "straw + rags doll" - to burn her in my backyard. A type of "nut" found on trees here, is convenient as her head with "face" painted. I would like to light a green sparkler but do not have any right now.
however ... maybe I won't.
Why? Because last night my Mother called to say she had "a powerful dream". She first told my wife, then demanded I come to the phone.
She told me, "(blank), now listen you do what I am telling you. I had a powerful dream last night. I dreamed you were doing something with fire - playing with fire - you had matches and were setting something on fire. There was straw that you set on fire then lost control. The fire spread in a field and then burned some property down and you got sued for damages... don't play with fire right now, you promise?"
... "Oh no," I said. "I don't play with fire. I won't"....
but, I do...
... but now that I think of it, I will let some else burn Holika this year.
Why? Because last night my Mother called to say she had "a powerful dream". She first told my wife, then demanded I come to the phone.
She told me, "(blank), now listen you do what I am telling you. I had a powerful dream last night. I dreamed you were doing something with fire - playing with fire - you had matches and were setting something on fire. There was straw that you set on fire then lost control. The fire spread in a field and then burned some property down and you got sued for damages... don't play with fire right now, you promise?"
... "Oh no," I said. "I don't play with fire. I won't"....
but, I do...
... but now that I think of it, I will let some else burn Holika this year.
Shantanu
Well-Known Member
He is not hanging about is he?Trump! Trumping!!
Aupmanyav
Be your own guru
As-salām ʿalaykum, Raahim from Croatia. Yes, a nice festival of Holi. Cold returned for one last time, snow in higher altitudes. Holika Dahan - burning of the demoness. We burnt few demons yesterday, will burn the rest today at night-fall.
The story is that a child (Prahlad) was momin but his father and aunt were kafirs. The aunt had a boon that fire will not burn her. So, the father asked the aunt to sit on a fire with the child. But God is great, he saved the child and burned the aunt.
Best wishes and regards.
As-salām ʿalaykum, Raahim from Croatia. Yes, a nice festival of Holi. Cold returned for one last time, snow in higher altitudes. Holika Dahan - burning of the demoness. We burnt few demons yesterday, will burn the rest today at night-fall.
The story is that a child (Prahlad) was momin but his father and aunt were kafirs. The aunt had a boon that fire will not burn her. So, the father asked the aunt to sit on a fire with the child. But God is great, he saved the child and burned the aunt.
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Why did I thought that Holi was something to do with birth of some Hindu god.
Nice information, thanks.
