Dawned the D-Day! Literally, as D could be considered the abbreviation for Dasara, too. As usual, the wapp messages inbox started getting flooded with the Dasara greetings. How lovely they were! Some of them were supported by the technical ingenuity, while some were high on the content.
The content rich mostly referred to the tradition of the Dasara festival as the D-day, the Golden Day of/for the beginning of the learning process. Lovely were the depictions of the Saraswati motif.
Yet another cute one dealt with the near and dear ones as the real gold that needs to survive forever. The one I liked the most was the one that echoed the message my blog yesterday ended with, that is to say, the festival as actually a process of self-amelioration, of self-betterment, of winning against the bad in oneself.
Indeed the demon need not be out there. Like the Durga Mata within us, the demon, too, really needs to be slayed within us, and of-n-by our own wish and will. Dasara, the festival, thus becomes, the clarion call to the goddess, "ya devi sarv bhuteshu budhi/dhruti/smruti/shakti/khashama rupen samsthitha". In other words, Dasara is a day for the resurgence of all the good within us, be it intelligence, the ability to hold on, memory, power/strength, and forgiveness. Indeed thus can we be the real gold!
Pratima@ the best rests within.
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