Holy 2012

This was an amazing lifetime experience because for the first time I participated in this holy festival in Sentul, Shri Lakhmi Narayan Temple. Mostly was celebrated by North Indian. There were few booths were put up for selling colours, water guns and and souvenirs. They had prayers from morning not sure what time up to 12noon then all the devotees were given lunch I joined together with them. It was celebrated on 18th of March 2012. According to this belief, Hiranyakashipu's own son, prahlada, was a devotee of Lord Visnu. In spite of several threats from Hiranyakashipu, Prahlada continued offering prayers to Lord Vishnu. He was poisoned by Hiranyakashipu, but the poison turned to nectar in his mouth. He was ordered to be trampled by elephants yet remained unharmed. He was put in a room with hungry, poisonous snakes and survived. All of Hiranyakashipu's attempts to kill his son failed. Finally, he ordered young Prahlada to sit on a pyre in the lap of holika, Hiranyakashipu's demoness sister, who also could not die because she had a boon preventing her from being burned by fire. Prahlada readily accepted his father's orders, and prayed to Lord Vishnu to keep him safe. When the fire started, everyone watched in amazement as Holika burnt to death, while Prahlada survived unharmed. The salvation of Prahlada and burning of Holika is celebrated as Holi.