Full Video: The must-know real colours of Holi || Acharya Prashant (2019)
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Video Information: Shabdyog satsang, 19.03.2019, Rishikesh, India
Context:
What is the meaning of Holi?
What is the meaning of it`s colours?
How to enjoy Holi?
Music Credits: Milind Date
Link : https://youtu.be/qFKQK7OJKOQ?si=wH_woKEQZeHbelLB
Video Information: Shabdyog satsang, 19.03.2019, Rishikesh, India
Context:
What is the meaning of Holi?
What is the meaning of it`s colours?
How to enjoy Holi?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00Something to learn from Pehalad?
00:05You see he had blood relations, very intimate relations with the king.
00:09The king was his father.
00:11But he kept the truth and real godliness above all relations of the body and blood.
00:19It's a great learning in detachment.
00:22It's a great learning in truth.
00:24No relation of the body, no relation of the blood is higher than the one fundamental relation
00:29we have with the truth.
00:31Look at Pehalad.
00:32He says, I do not care so much for my father, I rather care for the truth.
00:41And it's such a great and difficult thing to say.
00:46But Pehalad did that and that's why you have this timeless festival now.
00:52It's continuing since such a long time, centuries after centuries we see it.
01:03We have so many relationships, no relationships should be kept higher than the one central
01:09relationship we have with our real father.
01:14Bodily relations are no comparison to our fundamental relation with the heart, with
01:21the truth, with God if you want.
01:30Yes Holika, not to miss out on her.
01:40Smart woman, no?
01:43Smart woman with extraordinary powers.
01:47And it's her smartness that brought her to flames.
01:52That's a very important message to be remembered.
01:58The more smart you are, the more clever you are, the more are the chances that your own
02:06smartness will destroy you.
02:10It's very important to see when cleverness turns into cunningness.
02:19And that happens very frequently, very easily, very unnoticeably, you do not even know when
02:24you have turned cunning.
02:27If you are cunning, your own powers will destroy you.
02:33God turned Holika into ash.
02:37Her own plans, her own designs, she thought she was being smart.
02:42She thought she would succeed.
02:47She thought it's Prahlad who would be killed and see what happened.
02:53She got killed.
02:54Smartness got killed.
02:55Smartness turned out to be quite dumb.
03:08And one last thing about nursing.
03:12God is cleverer than the cleverest.
03:15You might think that you have nailed it.
03:17You might think that, you know, neither day nor night.
03:21God says what about dawn and dusk?
03:23They are neither day nor night.
03:26So you might be clever.
03:27God is cleverer than you.
03:29Do not use the powers you have from God against God himself.
03:39Remember that he is the one, he is the father, he is the boss.
03:44You are not.
03:46Do not try to act too smart, too clever.
03:52Do not be ungrateful.
03:56You might be powerful.
03:58Remember that your powers are coming from him, he is the source.
04:02And the source would always be more abundant than the ones who are receiving from the source.
04:10So whatever you have, whatsoever the ego has, is nothing in comparison to the source from
04:17where the ego comes, from the entire world comes.
04:23Such a nice thing to see, no?
04:25If we are clever, then God is the cleverest.
04:28If we are smart, then God is the smartest one.
04:31He can take any route.
04:33He will come up with any method.
04:37But the ego would certainly be defeated.
04:40So that's the motive, that's the theme behind Holi.
04:48Of course, you will not see this central idea so much in action.
04:55Mostly what you would see is a lot of jubilant, even raucous celebration, loudness, garish
05:09movements and all that is quite enjoyable, quite fun.
05:14That's the remarkable thing about Holi, that's what makes Holi so singularly special.
05:21But do remember that it's not just about colours and having fun.
05:30The symbolism runs very, very deep and we would do well to remember what the whole thing
05:35is really about.