Celebrate festivals, Celebrate life🎉 🎊

India is a very rich country culturally. We are so blessed to be born in india which  has its own cultural heritage. Each state has its own culture along with different festivals. Each religion in india has its own set of traditions and festivals.
Most of the festivals and traditions which are attached to every  festival are very scientific. We are following many things since generations but if we look at them all these things have spiritual and scientific significance too. Festivals teach us to enjoy our life in every season .it teach us how to accept the present situation and find happiness in it .

We celebrate Sankranti festival in The month of January in Maharashtra and Gujarat but in north india it’s Lohri and in south it’s Pongal. All the three festivals come in winters so the traditions and customs attached with them are suitable with the changing weather of that time . We give Tilgul in Maharashtra on Sankranthi, which is the best thing to be eaten during winters .Sesame seeds and jaggery is the good energy source in winters.Lohri and Pongal are the harvest festivals. During this time corn,groundnuts,sugarcane,mustard,jowar etc .are produced and the weather is very cold so Lohri is the time for gathering along with campfire having seasonal food like Sarson ka saag and Makai ki roti. Pongal has its own significance where god Sun is worshipped by offering milk and jaggery.

 Holi comes during spring time and hence getting drenched with colours is really soothing during this period. Thandai which is served on the day of Holi is the best drink for our body during the spring season. Gudi Padwa which we celebrated recently has its own
Home is decorated with Gudi in which fresh mango and neem leaves are used because it blooms during this season and Shrikhand is eaten which is a hung curd pudding ,very good for digestion in summer.

 So Many times festivals are so perfectly matched with the cuisines  combined with it ,and climatic conditions that it helps our body to acclimatise with the seasonal changes.

Every festival is related to the worship of particular god as we know and it makes us grow spiritually. Along with this is also makes us to grow socially and individually.

If we learn to know about each and every festival we would like to celebrate each one of them. In my family we do celebrate all the maharashtrian festivals like Gudi Padwa,Nag panchmi ,Pola ,Ganesh utsav,Vatsavitri etc along with common Indian festivals like Diwali ,Holi ,Navratri ,dashera, janmashtami,Pongal, Lohri,Vasant panchmi and with these Hindu festivals we also celebrate  Eid and Christmas.

With the celebration of all these festivals we are experiencing different colours and flavours of life. I try to make festival special cuisines on each festival , try to dress up accordingly, call friends at our place  to be part of the celebration and my kids who are five year old really enjoy being part of each festivities. They look forward for every festival. With the changing trend we have started celebrating Halloween and thanksgiving too on kids demand and I feel there is nothing bad in accepting western culture if it’s adding joy tin our life.
Life is all about spreading happiness around us, each festival brings lot of happiness with it. It makes us aware about changing climatic conditions around us, it makes us to believe in some supernatural power guiding us constantly, it makes us to look forward for something every time , it makes us to dress up differently in different festive colours, it makes us to taste various varieties of cuisines suitable to the season, it makes us feel positive and joyful.

The spirit of festival is contagious and we can feel that so enjoy all the simple joys in life .
Celebrate festivals, Celebrate life 🎉🎉!!!!!