“ HOLI HAI” An obnoxious Killing Festival in India.

“ HOLI HAI”

An obnoxious Killing Festival in India.

Recently   India was declared as the second most ignorant nation in the world. The sur
vey conducted by IPSOS MORI a London based market research firm. This ignorance come to us prominently when we notice the Government of India celebrates Holi, Navaratri, Janmastami and such other holy days based on the Brahmanical mythology. It is ridiculous to say that these holidays don’t have any historical support rather it has hidden political agendas to establish Brahmins as superpower over the aboriginals in India.

Who was this HOLI or HOLIKA?

Is there any historical evidence about Holika ? We notice that the drama of DASHAKUAR CHARIT by the play writer Dandin explained on Holi Festival. King Harshavardhan also indicated Holi Festival in his drama “Ratnavali”. In some miniatures in the court of Mughal Emperors we have seen several paintings on Holi Festival  and Dolpurnima.

In the Bhagvat Puran and Visnu Puran we get Holika as a royal sister of an ASSUR king Hiranyakashyapu.

The invasion of Aryans and spreading of CHATYURVARNA was not very smooth rather fighting and defeating of the Assura kings. Hiranyakashyapu was a greatest king once a time.  He tried to make free of his country from Brahmanical system. The system contain with giving permission of Yagna, Taxes, free gifts, giving of land and cows, giving of sura and young girls for sexual pleasure. Hiranyakashapu regretted to accept these brahmanical proposals filling abusive for his country. He decided to fight against Aryan regiment.

Once he was out of the capital to observe the preparation of his solders in the training camp. The cunning Indra made attack his capital and stolen gold, wine and the beautiful wife of Hiranyakashapu Kayadhu or Kaparu though she was pregnant at that time. Sage Narada saved her and rehabilitated her in his Asram. Queen Kayadhu gave birth a son PRAHLLAD.  Sage Narada took care of him and taught him as his habit to chant NARAYANA, NARAYANA.  Hiranyakashyapu attacked Visnupuri and made free to his wife and beautiful son Prahllad and bring them in his capital Hiranyapuri (the capital of gold). Surprisingly he noticed that Prahllad chants NARAYANA, NARAYANA. He decided to make liberate his son and entrusted this task to his sister HOLIKA. 

The Bhagvat Purana said that, Hiranyakashyapu dicided to kill his son and made several incidents. At last he arranged a Yagnavedi on which Holika made sit with Prahllad on her laps as she was fire proof.  But by the magical power of the chant NARAYANA Prahllad came out but Holika burnt into ashes. It was the night of full moon in the month of FALGUNA.  After this Lord Vishnu killed Hiranyakashyapu becoming NRISDHIMHA figure. It was an incarnation of Vishnu with half man and half lion figure.  From then Brahmins started celebration of “HOLI” as their day of victory over the aboriginal Assura.       

What was the real fact behind this Holika Dahan?

It has strong support in traditional folk tale and worship of MOTHER HOLIKA.  The aboriginal people of south, middle and Western India have been bearing this culture and tradition. They believe that, Holika was very responsible teacher and respectful RAJMATA to take care of the people giving them good governance.  Slowly she informed Prahllad about the true facts expecting to liberate Prahllad from Brahmins control. Prahllad became aware and imposed Brahmins ban Yajnas, offering free gifts, lands, food grains, cows, wine and young girls for sexual pleasure. 

Brahmins found Holika as the main advisor of Prahllad to ban them from all kinds of giving facilities. They attacked Hiranyapuri and jailed Holika kept her without any food and water.  The innocent citizen heard Holika crying for food and water.  They assembled in the city and requested Prahllad to make free of their holy mother.  The royal solders set free of their beloved mother from Brahmins.   But the very same night Brahmins attacked Holika brought out an open ground and tied her in a wooden pole. The villagers gathered with food and water crying for their beloved MATA HOLIKA. The merciless Brahmins burnt her with grass fire.

Fallen into grief the villagers worshiped their beloved mother Holika with scent and burnt the dead body properly with sandal wood. They offered her foods, water and clothes and moved around the CHITA with grief.  This worship gradually stands into an annual funeral worship of the aboriginal people.

In the Gupta period Brahmins wrote Puranas and imposed the funeral worship as Holi festival. Before the day of Holi  the festival  starts with burning holika called HOLOKA DAHAN or burning of the hut of BUDHI. The burning acts start with anger and obnoxious shouting “HOLI HAI”. 

The alternative way of celebrating Spring Season:

There are many ways of worshiping nature and it’s spring season. Santhal people worship the season of flower as BAHABONGA. The Kurmi  people called it SARHUL.  It is FAGUA in Bhojpuri culture. In Maharastra it is called SIMGA but in Goa and Konkan it is called SIGMO. In Malayalam language it is called MANJALKULI or yellow bath. In Tamil language it is called PANGUNI UTTHIRAM. All these spring festival organize by the aboriginals of India is very colorful. Its bring messages of love, peace and brotherhood.  

We can learn from our beloved poet Rabindranath Tagore also. He was the great Nobel-laureate who, under the overwhelming influence of the beautiful spring season on his poetic mind, introduced this lovely annual event in Vishwabharati University in Shantiniketan in Bolpur, West Bengal, India. In every year, the students and the youth of the institution, appareled in colorful dresses welcome and celebrate the king of season spring in a very traditional way. A number of cultural programs, including group choreography, songs and dance performances is organized under the tree. The programs are followed by playing of natural colors as all the students of the university smear each other with colored powders and express festive wishes.
    

But the Holi festival symbolized as the festival of killing, burning and filling anger. It also associated with consumerism and business. 

We should avoid this brutal festival of killing of an aboriginal mother HOLIKA and celebrate the spring festival with our traditional way of Indian culture.