\Imagine a festival celebration everything, yes EVERYTHING, and NOT EVERYONE....
I learnt about this festival only in 2015. Its Indian. Its Hindu. You thank all instruments that help you. Pen, pencil, notebook, book, writing ink, colours paint brushes, cars, computers, fans, calculators, and yes broom and dustbin as well.
You worship your tools. If you are a doctor you worship the thermometer, if you teacher, the chalk and duster (in those times :), if you are a street cleaner, you worship the broom and the dustin. You adorn them, you join your hands and thank them....for they bring you dignity because they give you a livelihood. Allow you to feed your family.
May be now you know why I keep falling in love with hinduism. The more I Iearn, the more I love it.
Pooja pooja wrongly translated as praying, is a way of evoking the spirit or the God within ....we use the same word for worshipping in temples,--its not the same as praying. It is recognising the spirit within, and thanking it. For participating in our lives, for making them easier.).
The festival comes in autumn, when all of us go within.
Ayudha Pooja this year was October 14, 2021
Am I right in interpreting this as a respect and a love of the work you do in life, no matter what the work is?
ReplyDeleteYes Pat, every kind of work contributes to society. From being a Prime Minister to a street cleaner. The only way to find personal happiness and by corollary create social happiness is to honor the work we do. To think that our work is divine...
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