Please read the previous page about the Un-conditional Love of  "Radha and Krishna". This great Love is celebrated as Holi festival in Bharath. Unconditionality brings out the True color of joy and color of life.  Holi is the symbolic  joyous celebration of the colors of love and life experienced through unconditional Love.

Once in a conversation between Radha and Krishna , Krishna told her that both of them are one and the same. When she asked him to prove the statement, he asked her to apply  colorful red kumkum powder on her forehead as Bindu. When she did , she was surprised to see that that color was seen in krishna's head. Krishna now playfully took the powder and applied on her hands and that immediately shown on his hands. To the surprised Radha he asked her to now apply in his face and hands and again she found that they appeared on her body. Her Joy of understanding that both are one, broke into joyful laughter and play, which become the seed of Holi festival.

Only in Unconditional Love one transcends to the highest divinity state of God-Consciousness state.  If one wants to understand the deepest meaning for transcending  "Conditions" for God-realization is because , Consciousness is Unconditional,  and we exists as Awareness which is nothing but un-conditional Consciousness conditioned in space and time.

                Prahalad and Holi festival.
 

There is another story connected to Holi festival which is connected to unconditional love of a devotee and Lord. In the previous pages you would have read that Unconditional love is  total acceptance of a person or a situation. This total acceptance or surrender in the language of Bhakthi is the story of Prahalad. He is one devotee who never complained of any hardships of life. When his own father threatened his survival , he as unmoved by it. This is why he was able to overcome even the Cosmic laws or Pancha Bhootas.

When Indra and other Gods asked Narada  when Lord Vishnu will show mercy on them by killing  the Demon Hiranya kashubu, he replied that that will happen only when Prahalad is in danger. The surprised Indra asked why is that Vishnu does not have mercy and bothered of the suffering of the Gods. Narada replied "You are not able to accept the present situation and for your happiness you selfishly wish that your enemy be destroyed".   But look at Prahalad that even when his life in danger he is not angry on anyone, but holds steadfast to Vishnu with total acceptance to the situations and the reactions of his father. He is accepting his father as he is at the same time he does not "let Go" his principle of adhering to the Truth that God is that pure Consciousness.

Normal human beings forget the highest Truth, God (Consciousness) and complain all the transient fleeting problems of life. Then all the prayers we do are not out of devotion, but for our inability to accept the reality like Indra praying to Vishnu for his happiness. Bhakthi is unconditional acceptance of life and should not misunderstood with laziness which is dont-care give-up attitude in life.

Thus when Prahalad's aunt Holika tried to destroy him by putting in fire, Prahald came our unharmed. Holika was given a boon by Brahma that Fire will not harm her unless she use it for selfish reasons.   Fire is the symbol of  knowledge. If we use knowledge for selfish needs it will destroy us. That is what happened to Holika. Instead if we use that knowledge to increase our Awareness to realize God Consciousness we will be released from the bondages of life. That knowledge will inturn protect us, like Fire unharmed Prahalad.

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