Friday, October 25, 2013

Dassera



Dassera

Please refer to blog dated : Nov 6th 2012 to understand the custom of ‘bommala koluvu’ or ‘golu’ as it is generally referred to. 

As already explained, each decoration has an innate meaning and the explanation of one such arrangement is given below.

The lowermost step represents life in all it’s forms and shapes.  Animals kept on this step represent our thousands of janmas that we take before being granted a ‘human life’.  The life that we got after so much of difficulty, how are we actually living it?  Just as animals also eat, sleep, procreate are we leading a similar life represented by the couple selling fruits – a life which is full of mundane routine. 

The same life can be used to cross the ‘bhavasagara’ – ‘ocean of life and death’ and attain moksha represented by the fisherwoman/man.  This can be attained by following three paths viz., karma yoga represented by the saint patriotic poet shri.Bharathiyaar.  you can lead such of life which is beneficial in some way to the society at large, which betters the society in some way.  As a karmayogi, we ‘become’ the change that we want to see in the society and in our life.  We put some effort to make this world a better place to live.

The next is the path of ‘gnanayoga’ represented by Swami Vivekananda.  The path that is both difficult yet totally fulfilling.

The next most suited for emotional people is the path of ‘bhakthi yoga’ represented by ‘the music trinity’ Shri.Thyagarayar, Shri. MuthuSwami Deekshithar and Shri.Shyama Shashtri.  This path asks us to surrender to the will of the Lord as we move about in the world fulfilling our responsibilities.

Once, we decide to walk the path, the journey is not all that easy nor is the result i.e., moksha immediate.  It happens at various stages.


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