Happy Bhogi!

 Culture #Rituals#Bhogi#Newbeginnings

Every culture has a set of rituals throughout the year.

Rituals are a set of beliefs and practices followed by a group of people.

On the superficial look certain rituals could be brushed away without giving a deeper thought about it,but when it is probed we could decipher great keys that could keep our life on track in this world.

Rituals carry knowledge with them it is not just a boring thing which we do blindly because our elders do it.

We use lot of fancy terms and try to formulate theories for the same, such things are followed for eons without using a terminology.

 For example we have the concept of minimalism, which is to use necessary things for living and not indulging in extravagances.

We have the festival of Bhogi in Tamil culture where we discard the things which we do not use over a period of time.

Every year before the harvest festival of Pongal we celebrate Bhogi.

We welcome plenty of harvest for Pongal which needs space for which old things have to be discarded.

Bhogi is an adieu to everything that has served its purpose.

Celebrate Bhogi every year as a time to reset, alter and change the flow of life.

It is a pause button to weigh our choices, emotions, relationships, career and everything around us.

To start over a fresh beginning it’s always good to ‘let go ‘ certain things though they were precious once.

Every creature has a purpose we could hold on to it not eternally but till the time allotted to us.

‘Forever is a myth’ so though it hurts  ‘let go’.

Make the world beautiful by your evolving presence and welcome new beginnings.

Do not stagnate …flow!

© Aparna