• Rg: Intensity (may my effort my intense – may i immerse in the Truth day and night)
• Yajus: Purpose (may my bhāva of ananya bhakti be protected)
• Sama: Deny (may i never deny Brahman; may i never compromise the Truth of Oneness)
• Atharva: Vision (may i recognize Brahman in all ABCs)

The festival of colors, Holi, is the most vibrant of all Hindu festivals. It marks the end of winter in India and welcomes the spring season. On this festive day, people play with colors, meet and greet one another and create new beginnings.
Legend has it that once, there was a powerful king named Hiranyakashipu. He was a devil and was hated for his cruelty. He considered himself to be God and wanted everybody in his kingdom to worship him like one. However, his own son, Prahlada, was a devotee of Lord Vishnu and refused to worship his father. Angry with the disobedience of his son, Hiranyakashipu tried killing his son a number of times, but nothing worked. He then asked his evil sister, Holika, for help. Holika possessed a special power of being immune to fire. So, to kill Prahlada, she tricked him into sitting with her on a pyre. But due to her evil intentions, her power became ineffective and she was burned to ashes. On the other hand, Prahlada gained this immunity and was saved. This is why the first day of Holi is celebrated as Holika Dahan and symbolizes the victory of good over evil.
In the region of Braj (where Lord Krishna grew up) in Uttar Pradesh, Holi is celebrated until the day of Rangpanchmi as a huge festival, in memory of the devotional love of Krishna and Radha. A local legend is associated with this as well. When Krishna was a baby, he acquired a distinctive blue skin colour after drinking the poisoned breast milk of the she-demon, Putana. Later, when he became young, he would often feel sad about whether the fair-coloured Radha or other girls in the village would ever like him because of his dark colour. Giving in to his desperation, Krishna’s mother asked him to go and colour Radha’s face with any colour he wanted to. So when Krishna applied colour to Radha, they both became a couple, and since then, people have started playing with colours on Holi.
In the first story, when ‘Holika’ realized her mistake and surrendered, she was liberated and became one with Bhagavan Krishna. In the second, when colors are applied, it makes all seem as One with Bhagavn Krishna.
Thus, for me, Holi is all about showing the Diversity in Unity. 

Why is Holi relevant to our study of the Upanishads? It is a fun and beautiful expression of the core teaching of the Upanishad – Oneness. This fact and teaching is expressed through the three stories which underlie the celebration of Holi. First is the story of Radha and Krishna, where Krishna asks Radha to color His face as She wishes, because He (as if) is worried that She will not like Him because of his dark complexion. But no matter how many different colors we can put on our skin, our Self remains unchanged. The teaching here is: deeper than this name/form/diversity is Unity/Awareness. It’s lovely to see people from all walks of life playing Holi colors together, because this is the true spirit of the festival – to break down our artificial divisions and hierarchies and to celebrate our underlying Unity. Second is the story of Rishi Prahlada and Holika, where Holika sits in a fire with Rishi Prahlada and holds Him tight, so that He will be burned by the fire. Instead, her fire-resistant power is transferred to Rishi Prahlada so He is saved and she is burned. The teaching her is: with single pointed devotion to Truth, no negativity can burn us. Ananya-bhakti = mumukshutvam is essential for spiritual progress. Third is the story of Bhagavan Shiva and Kamadeva, where Shiva burns Kamadeva who tries to distract Him from contemplation. In order realize Truth, we must burn all our other desires in life – pleasures, possessions, positions. So long as we crave anything other than Truth, we will remain stuck in the cycle of separation-smallness-sadness. Again, we have a vivid example of the importance of Ananya-bhakti. Through these three stories, the festival of Holi reminds us of the truth of Oneness and the necessity of exclusive devotion to this truth if we hope to realize it and benefit by it.

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I trust fully in the Trust Triangle.
If i have to choose a person, i trust my Guru completely, because he is guiding me in the right path to the knowledge of the Divinity.

• If trust in a person is the same as faith in that person (reliable, dependable), then in day to day life, there are many whom i interact with of that kind.
• But if i have to quantify the really close ones and rare situations that i totally have to trust them, then my first go to is my Narayana. I pray that all will be well when i approach and ask of a favor and then i give it to Him. Believe it or not, 100% times this has been successful.
• Then again i have utmost trust in my Gurus.