Happy Pongal

Happy New Year!!

I wanted to update my blog some time ago. Hmmm...wonder what stopped me.

1) Lazy
2) Kind of bored
3) Helped in my cousins 21st birthday celebration
4) Too busy doing my school assignment
5) Went holiday
6) Too much work when I came back to work

These are all excuses.....plainly I'm lazy and tired these days :-)

Anyway Pongal is round the corner (15 Jan) for those who don't know. Let me be the first one to wish all my friends a very happy pongal.

Meaning of Pongal
Pongal is a harvest festival - the Tamil equivalent of Thanksgiving. It is held to honor the Sun, for a bountiful harvest. Families gather to rejoice and share their joy and their harvests with others. The Sun is offered a "Pongal" of rice and milk. Literally meaning "Boiling over", Pongal, signifies the advent of prosperity. Pongal is normally celebrated over a period of four days, starting on the 13th January. Since the calculation to determine the day is based on the solar calendar, the date doesn't change. It is considered a very auspicious occasion when the Sun transits the Capricorn sign. A rich and abundant harvest of paddy and other crops depend on the availability of good rain, as most of the rivers in Tamil Nadu are not perennial. Hence, there is the invocation of the Sun God and the God of Rain at the time of Pongal.

My wishes to all the Indians out there

As the sunlight is the very nature of the sun, sweetness the nature of sugar and heat the nature of fire, the Lord is divine grace. God cannot give grace until you allow Him to enter your life. To invoke Him is to invite His grace. To the extent the heart is open for the inflow of the Higher, to that extent we are under the grace of the Lord. - Swami Chinmayananda

May all you have a blessed and joyous pongal.