Friday, 4 January 2013

Kites Festival 2013 - Makar Sankranthi - Pongal


“Makara Sankranthi” is one of the most popular festivals of Hindus in India, celebrated with the great fervour, gaiety and devotion. Perhaps, this is the only festivals which fall on same date every year. It is also known as Kite’s festival and Pongal. The festival celebrated for 3 days i.e. Bhogi, Sankranthi, Kanuma. People offer thousands of their colorful oblations to the Sun in the form of beautiful kites.

Bhogi is the festival falls one day before Sankranthi festival. On this day bonfire is fired, Prayers to God are done to get blessings, success, happiness and wellness throughout the year.

makar sankranthi

Hindus take holy bath with neem leaves and wear new clothes with new thoughts. On the Bhogi day hindus decorate their homes with flowers, decorative items. They keep the homes clean and paint their homes with colors. As it is harvest festival, farmers enjoy a lot on the occasion of this festival.

Makar Sankranti is the day when the glorious Sun-God begins its ascendancy and entry into the Northern Hemisphere and thus it signifies an event wherein the Sun-God seems to remind their children that 'Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya'- may you go higher & higher, to more & more Light and never to Darkness.

pongal, makar sankranthi

Makara Sankrathi or Pongal indicates the end of the traditional farming season, giving farmers a break from their monotonous routine. In fact, three festivals are celebrated for three consecutive days this week.

To Hindus, the Sun stands for knowledge, spiritual light and wisdom. Makar Sankranti signifies that we should turn away from the darkness of delusion in which we live and begin to enjoy a new life in New Year with bright light within us to shine brighter and brighter. We should gradually begin to grow in purity, wisdom, and knowledge even as the Sun does from the Day of Makar Sankranti.

This day of festival is known by variety of traditions witnessed as one explores the festival in all the states of India.

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