Baba's Holi Meal in Hemadpant's House - Wishing you a happy HOLI!

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    || OM SAI RAM ||

    BY THE GRACE OF SAI BABA
    MAY THIS HOLI BE SHOWERING
    WHOLE HAPPY BLESSINGS
    TO ALL DWARKAMAI FAMILY!

    Baba's Holi Meal in Hemadpant's House:

    [JUSTIFY]On Holi festival in 1917, Baba appeared in the dream of Hemadpant
    at his house in Bandra and told him that he would be coming to his
    house to participate in the Holi meal. Hemadpant told his wife about the
    dream and asked her to prepare food for one more person. The festivities of
    Holi were over. Arrangements were made for serving the meal. They reserved
    a seat for Baba. All the members of the family sat down for the meal. After
    offerings were made to God, ghee was served; they were about to start
    eating, when someone knocked the door. Hemadpant opened the door and
    foundtwo persons standing there. They handed over to him a photo of
    Shirdi Sai Baba with a request to keep it safely. They asked him to finish
    his meals first and then they could discuss the details about the photo
    later on they left the place.

    Hemadpant was surprised at the arrival of Baba in the form of photo,
    exactly at meal time. He shed tears of joy. He felt happy that what Baba
    had told him in the dream had come true in this manner. He immediately
    put the photo in the place set apart for Baba. All the food items were kept
    before the photo and only after offering them to Baba, did the others eat.

    The same day at the same time Baba told Shama at Shirdi that he
    had a sumptuous meal at Bandra in Hemadpant's house. Shama could
    understand Baba's words only after sometime when Hemadpant went
    to Shirdi. Now let us see how the photo was delivered at Hemadpant's house.
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    Photograph received by Hemadpant ji on Shimga Day...

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    [JUSTIFY]A long time back, a saint by name Abdul Rehman gave a lifesize
    framed photo of Baba to Ali Mohammed. After sometime, Ali's brother-in-law
    fell sick. Someone said that if the photos of saints were put in the sea,
    the illness would subside. So he sent for this manager and asked him to
    collect all such photos in his house and also in the houses of relatives
    and put them in the sea. After some days Ali Mohammed came home and
    was surprised to find that Baba's photo was still there in the wall. He began
    to think to whom it should be given. As per Baba's order given to him
    through his thoughts, the photo was handed over to Hemadpant.
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    HOLI:

    [JUSTIFY]Holi is an annual Hindu spring festival. It takes place over two days
    around late March or early April on a Purnima Full Moon as per the
    Hindu calendar. It is also called the festival of color. On the first day,
    a bonfire is lit at night to signify the burning of Holika. On the second day,
    known as Dhulandi, people go around until afternoon throwing colors at each
    other and meet and have fun. Rangapanchami occurs a few days later on a
    Panchami (fifth day of the full moon), marking the end of festivities
    involving colors.
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    Significance:

    [JUSTIFY]In Hindu mythology, Hiranyakashipu was the king of
    demons, and he had been granted a boon by Brahma, which made it
    almost impossible for him to be killed. The boon was due to his long
    penance, after which he had demanded that he not be killed 'during
    day or night; inside the home or outside; not on earth or on sky,
    neither by a man nor an animal'. Consequently, he grew arrogant, and
    attacked the Heavens and Earth. He demanded that people stop
    worshipping gods and start praying to him. But his own son, Prahlad,
    was a devotee of Lord Vishnu.
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    [JUSTIFY]In spite of several threats from Hiranyakashipu, Prahlad continued
    offering prayers to Lord Vishnu. He was poisoned but the poison
    turned to nectar in his mouth. He was ordered to be trampled by
    elephants yet remained unharmed. He was put in a room with hungry,
    poisonous snakes and still survived. All of Hiranyakashipu's attempts
    at killing him failed. Ultimately he ordered young Prahlad to sit on a pyre
    on the lap of his sister Holika, who could not die by fire by virtue of a
    shawl which would prevent fire affecting the person wearing it. Prahlad
    readily accepted his father's orders, and prayed to Vishnu to keep him safe.
    When the fire started, everyone watched in amazement as the shawl flew
    from Holika, who, then was burnt to death, while Prahlad survived without a
    scar to show for it, after the shawl moved on to cover him. The burning of
    Holika is celebrated as Holi.
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    [JUSTIFY]In Vrindavan and Mathura the festival is still celebrated for
    16 days (until Rangpanchmi in commemoration of the divine love of
    Radha for Krishna). Lord Krishna is believed to have popularized the festival
    by playing pranks on the gopis here. Krishna is believed to be complained
    about his dark color and Radha's fair color to his mother and so
    decided to apply color to her face. The celebrations officially usher in
    spring, the celebrated season of love.

    There is another story about the origin of holi. The Kamadeva is
    God of love. Kama's body was destroyed when he shot his weapon
    at Shiva in order to disrupt his penance and help Parvati to marry Shiva.
    Shiva then opened his third eye, the gaze of which was so powerful
    that Kama's body was reduced to ashes. For the sake of Kama's wife
    Rati (passion), Shiva restored him, but only as a mental image, representing
    the true emotional and mental state of love rather than physical lust.
    The Holi bonfire is believed to be celebrated in commeration of this event.
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    OM SAI RAM, SRI SAI RAM, JAI JAI SAI RAM!!!!
     
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    Happy holi......Stay Blessed!

    Pyar ke rang se bharo pichkari,
    sneh se rang do duniya sari,
    ye rang na jane koi jaat na koi boli,
    aapko mubarak ho aapno ki holi.


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    Dear Bhagi sister

    Om Sairam

    Thank you for the lovely article on Holi and your wishes.

    Happy Holi to you.

    Sri Padarajam Saranam Prapadheye
    Sri Padarajam Saranam Prapadheye
    Sri Padarajam Saranam Prapadheye
     
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    Dear Bhagi sis,

    Thanks for sharing the beautiful pics of Sai & also spl thanks for the information abt Holi :)

    May this festival of colours bring lots & lots of peace & prosperity to all :)

    Happy holi to u too :)

    OmSairam.. JaiSairam..
     
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    Happy Holi to all of you .
     
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    Dear Bhagi,

    Wish you too a very happy Holi.

    Thanks for the nice information on celebration of Holi.

    Om Sai Ram
     
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    Thanks a lot for the colorful holi festival wishes along with so many leela's of baba. God bless you and I feel blessed reading the stories.
     
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    Dear Bhagi,

    Happy Holi.
    Thank you for sharing the pic of Baba received by Hemadpant.
     
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    Hi all,

    My best wishes to each one of you!! :)
    A happy holi!! :)

    May Baba bless each one of you and make your lives colourful!!

    || Om Sai Ram ||
     
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    Hi all,

    My best wishes to each one of you!! :)
    A happy holi!! :)

    May Baba bless each one of you and make your lives colourful!!

    || Om Sai Ram ||
     

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