Hi, everyone,
I felt like writing a post on the Hindu festivals of India..... on Why, When and What they actually are. Please check out my up coming posts. I shall start off with the list of important festivals. All of these writings will only put forth my view and understanding of the different hindu festivals.
Back in my hometown.... people would call even the birthday as a festival.... 'Puttina-roju-Panduga'.... meaning the 'Birth-day-festival' So what exactly did they mean.... Most hindu festivals mention the worship of some god during a festival, so does it mean that birthday would be a worship of the particular person.. so exactly what does worship mean. Worship is a way of paying respect for what something or someone is......we hindus worship books for giving us knowledge and education, trees for giving us oxygen and shelter and maintenance of nature, cows for giving us milk, sun for its heat and light without which the whole world would not exist, the clouds giving us rain....and of course a human being......apart from worshiping god. Now, we do not worship the idols, but we worship the divinity called god that we represent in the form of an object that we use to focus upon... the IODOL....well, please refer to my post on Idolatry to see the real significance and reson for the use of idols.
Respect is a means of recognition of the value of anything because as human beings we are only a fraction/part of the world.
Be it a birthday or any festival for the hindus, we do not follow the solar calendar. However, with the blending of culture people now use the solar calendar for the celebration of birthdays. I will not go into the details of how and why the solar calendar and months were established.
Hindu festivals follow the luni-solar calendar or the luni-sidereal calendar. All the timing is calculated astronomically taking both the moon(mainly) and the sun positions related to the rotation and revolution of the earth ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_calendar )
According to the hindu calendar, There are 7 days in a week, 12 months in a year each having a length of 29.530589 days (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_calendar)
I felt like writing a post on the Hindu festivals of India..... on Why, When and What they actually are. Please check out my up coming posts. I shall start off with the list of important festivals. All of these writings will only put forth my view and understanding of the different hindu festivals.
Back in my hometown.... people would call even the birthday as a festival.... 'Puttina-roju-Panduga'.... meaning the 'Birth-day-festival' So what exactly did they mean.... Most hindu festivals mention the worship of some god during a festival, so does it mean that birthday would be a worship of the particular person.. so exactly what does worship mean. Worship is a way of paying respect for what something or someone is......we hindus worship books for giving us knowledge and education, trees for giving us oxygen and shelter and maintenance of nature, cows for giving us milk, sun for its heat and light without which the whole world would not exist, the clouds giving us rain....and of course a human being......apart from worshiping god. Now, we do not worship the idols, but we worship the divinity called god that we represent in the form of an object that we use to focus upon... the IODOL....well, please refer to my post on Idolatry to see the real significance and reson for the use of idols.
Respect is a means of recognition of the value of anything because as human beings we are only a fraction/part of the world.
Be it a birthday or any festival for the hindus, we do not follow the solar calendar. However, with the blending of culture people now use the solar calendar for the celebration of birthdays. I will not go into the details of how and why the solar calendar and months were established.
Hindu festivals follow the luni-solar calendar or the luni-sidereal calendar. All the timing is calculated astronomically taking both the moon(mainly) and the sun positions related to the rotation and revolution of the earth ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_calendar )
According to the hindu calendar, There are 7 days in a week, 12 months in a year each having a length of 29.530589 days (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_calendar)
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