Significance Of Holi Festival

Festivals celebrated in India are deeply rooted with spiritual importance and values for life. 

All the festival occasions highlight several principles to be followed in life for evolution towards godliness. 

Unlike any other celebration, festivals of India takes us more towards divinity, bringing our mind out from the negativities.

Holi is such a festival celebrated during the spring season with much fervor in India. 

It is celebrated as the festival of colours and love, symbolising our mind with its emotions. Like any other festival rich with culture and tradition, 

Holi also signifies the victory of good over the evil, and ignorance.

Holi is celebrated on the occasion of arrival of the spring. It is to be noted that with the end of winter season, 

Holi brings in the fragrance of flowers creating an aura and ambience of warmth and happiness. 

Holi celebration always creates an enchanting mood among all the people irrespective of their age. 

Smearing each other with different colours along with the delicious Sweets, this holy festival too brings in the ambience of cheer and happiness across all people.

 For centuries, Holi is the one and only festival in India uniting people of all sects, castes, age groups, and even generations.

According to the Puranas, the day of Holi is also referred to as Vasant Mahotsav or Kama Mahotsav.

Numerous Legends Related to Holi:
1.Bhakta Prahlad and HiranyaKashyap.
2. Lord Shiva’s retribution Against Kaamdev.
3.Lord Hanuman and Holi.
4.Favourite Festival of Lord Krishna.

According to tradition, ideally, the preparation for Holi needs to start from Maha Shivaratri onwards, which usually falls a few weeks before Holi. 

The festival of colours is not about getting rid of the waste and negative energies from our lives and homes but much more.

"Holi is the perfect time to break the ice, breathe new life into relationships and have a blast with people with bright colors of the festival."   Happy Holi:)

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