Diwali
The day before Diwali Festival is celebrated as Chhoti Diwali or small Diwali. It is Diwali on a minor scale, with some lights lit & some crackers burst. The sunrise after Choti Diwali, the ladies of the home create beautiful, colored rangoli in the entryway & courtyard. Small footprints made out of rice insert are a unique feature of the colored rangolis made for Diwali. In Hindu houses, Chhoti Diwali revels engross a ritual puja to deity Rama and also to Goddess Lakshmi in the evening. Songs in respect of the god are sung & aarti is performed.[smartads]
The story departs that the demon ruler Narakasur king of Pragjyotishpur after beating Lord Indra had quick away the superb jewelry of Aditi, the Mother Goddess & locked up 16,000 daughters of the gods & saints in his harem.
On coming to identify about this, Satyabhama was furious by Narakasura’s wickedness towards ladies, & she demand to Krishna to give her the fair chance to demolish Narakasura. The fable also says that Narakasura was agreed a curse that he would be murdered by a ladies. Krishna decided Satyabhama a boon to brawl with Narakasura. With lord Krishna as the charioteer, Satyabhama go into the fight field. During the fighting, Krishna collapsed for a while, a inevitable divinely act accepted to allow Satyabhama to murdered the devil. Behind Narakasura was beheaded, the jailed ladies were free, & Krishna usual to marry them.
So on the day before to Narakachaturdashi, Krishna’s heavenly interference led to the murder of the demon, Narakasura & release of the jailed damsels as well as upturn of the costly earrings of Aditi. As a sign of that success Lord Krishna dirty his forehead among the demon king’s blood. Lord Krishna go backed house in the very early sunrise of the Narakachaturdashi day. The ladies folk massaged perfumed oil to his body & gave him a excellent bath to wash away the dirt as of his body. Since next the tradition of taking bath before morning on this day has befall a usual practice particularly in Maharashtra.
It is attractive to letter that Bhudevi, mother of the kill Narakasura, confirmed that his loss should not be a day of grief but an event to celebrate & rejoice. Since then, Diwali is being celebrated by public every year with happy celebrations with lot of fun & frolic, & fire works.
In Maharashtra also, usual early baths with oil & “Uptan” of gram flour & fragrant dusts are a `must’. All from side to side the ritual of baths, noisy sounds of crackers & rockets are there in order that the kids enjoy bathing. Later steamed vermicelli with milk & sugar or gasping rice with curd is supplied.
Hindu public mostly youngster and child anywhere they do exchange diwali gifts, Diwali dance, & Diwali Greeting Cards. With the current trend some teenager have return Diwali Cards with Diwali SMS Greetings / Diwali shayari SMS, Diwali messages, Diwali wishes .Diwali festival is also called Deepawali festival.Happy Diwali.
