Vishu (Mirroring the Mind's Cosmetic beauty).

Vishu is the new year of the people of Kerala.   It is a tradition to see the Vishu-Kani first in the morning of the new year. Usually the mother wakes up the family members keeping her right hand  to keep their eyes closed and navigate them to open their eyes on the Vishu Kani. Kani includes a Mirror,  Vishnu picture or icon, yellow flowers, fruits, jewels, spiritual books etc.

 Mirror is the most important part of Vishnu Kani.

Why Mirror?. We cannot think of a day without having a glance of of us in the mirror?. This is because of our cosmetic  sense of our Body. If there is a dirt , growth or black-head on the face we do  not want anyone to comment on that. Because those comments will hurt us and we lose happiness So every single moment we make sure we look good to maintain our happiness. For this cosmetic looks of our body, mirror is important part of our life.

Mugam manasinde Kannadi. Mirror in Vishu kani is for looking at the cosmetic state of our mind. We interact with everyone not only with our physical body , but also with our mind. If this mind has a dirt (a dirt is an unwanted thing), then it reflects in our behavior. Any comment on our behavior will be hurting for us and we lose peace of mind and happiness.  Vishu is a day to begin the year to have an internal cosmetic look of our mind. Like we remove unwanted hairs, pimples, growth and black heads in our face, we have to remove the hairs of unwanted thoughts, pimples of pride and blackheads of jealousy from our minds.

Why Vishnu idol in Vishu Kani?   In Beauty parlors, our inspiration model  is the cosmetic looks of the popular  movie stars or beautiful models. We demand the beautician to get that looks. The model for our   cosmetic mind is Vishnu. This is why near the mirror, Vishnu's picture or icon is kept. If we develop an unconditional mind as Vishnu then we get the blessings of his wife Lakshmi. Where is lakshmi?

The yellow flowers, fruits and Gold?.   Gold and yellow symbolically represents the happiness, our internal wealth. This wealth is Lakshmi. We want to have the wealth of happiness throughout the year. This happiness wealth is what we are all working so hard for in the form of health, material wealth, knowledge etc. But lakshmi, the happiness cannot come without having the clean mind of Vishnu.

Guru the professional Beautician:   The purpose of seeking the Guru is to beautify our mind. Guru gives the correct spiritual shampoo and sadhana bleaches to remove dirt from our mind. Follow the suggestions of the Guru to keep of the Mind and  have Lakshmi of happiness in our life. Have this vision of contemplation of cosmetic every day or atleast once in a year on the new year of Vishu. Happy Vishu to all of you.

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