Celebration Of Colour Festival! Poem by Ramesh T A

Only God is great and there is only one God though called by many names;
By many names and forms, only one God is worshiped everywhere;
To change that, a giant king acquiring many powers by deep meditation,
Ordered all to pray him as God instead of the usual God, Narayana!

But his son who was about to be born was taught in the womb itself to pray Narayana;
After birth, the small boy with great devotion prays Lord Narayana only;
In the school teachers tried to make him pray in the name of his father, Heranya;
But the boy, Prahalatha did listen to it and went on teaching other pupils too pray Narayana!

All things tried only in vain and his father Heranya ordered to be sent to his sister Holika;
She was also giant lady having special power to burn to death anyone sitting on her lap;
Holika made the little boy to sit on her lap and pray, he also went of praying Om Naraya;
Instead of he was burnt to death, Holika was burnt to ashes by her own fire....!

Knowing this message, Heranya asks his son where is God? He says He in pillar and particle;
Immediately Heranya breaks a pillar and Lord Narayan comes out as Lion God and kills him!
Whoever one is, if one disrespectfully deals with God, will be disposed to be nothing;
From then on that is being celebrated as Colour Festval or Holi Festival!

Colour Festival is celebrated at the demise of Holika and it happens in Spring time,
It is also called as Spring Festival and all together strewing colour powder celebrate
For peace, prosperity, progress, love, joy and unity of all people as one family;
Holi Festival is celebrated widely by all like Festival of Lights or Dwali in Winter!