Veda-Vaani (veda vaaNii)—The Voice of the Vedas.

The Festival of Colour: Dola-Purnimaa (Holi) and Its Roots in Vedic Knowledge.  Consciousness and the Colours (varNa). Preface.   This is a piece of sacred speech delivered by the seer (RiShi) Shri.  BijoyKrishna Chattopadhyay, also known as Howrah's Thakur (the God of Howrah). Howrah is a city near Kolkata, located in West Bengal, India.   This sermon is on the Indian festival called 'Holi'—the festival of colour, and it is rooted in the Vedic ceremony called 'hindola' , and also in the myth related to the demoness 'holikaa' . Thus, it is known as 'dola' , as well as 'holi'. dola means a cradle or a swing; hindola also means the same. However, a more appropriate meaning of hindola should be hiM-dola —the swing or the inward-outward movement of the heart (hRidaya) caused by the 'assuring response' of  Consciousness, called 'hiM' or the 'hiMkaaraa' . 'hiMkaaraa' is known as the first   'stobha' ...

  A Sermon on a New Year. The One who is eternally ancient, yet ever new—may that One, on this auspicious New Year, bring you new awakening and new joy. May that One dwell within you in an ever-new form. That which is fragmentary* clings to the old; it fears that if it lets go, everything will come to an end. But the One who is eternal, who is infinite—whenever that One engages in play, everything becomes new. We do not perceive this ever-new Goddess; therefore, we try to hold on to the old. But once this Goddess of ever-newness appears in our vision, there is no need to cling to the old anymore. The eternal One, in whom all is ever new—whatever play the One chooses to enact, in that, the One appears anew. May the One make this New Year meaningful for you. I bless you—may you attain a life of ever-newness. [Publisher's note: *We are fragments of the Universal Consciousness, and in our current state, we cannot identify ourselves with the Universal Consciousness.] -------------------...