Kal mangal deep diwali thee!!!
....and i guess it was the first time , i was out of my home in this festival.I missed my family , my friends, pooja rituals , joy of being with family,crackers , my small town and last but not the least , some delicious food prepared by my mother and sister , and i personally realised an old favourite quote "Absence makes the heart grow fonder", how true!!
Yesterday is gone and i try to re-collect my whole yesterday here in Mumbai,it was a good gathering and after gulping a dozen of Beers by our group ,the day before Diwali , we all got up late with hang-over hanging in every one's eyes. But soon we all were back and started the day with the Dipawali "Shagun" ritual, called Teen Patti (:D).Everyone took their seats ,ready with coins ,notes and luck.I was the only first-timer and took some time to learn the tricks of the game and in the process lost some money too, but it seems, i am a quick learner because,soon i was displaying my tricks and winning games continuously and when after 5 hours games halted , i was some 100+ INR in positive. Thanks lady luck and MaaLaxmi for shining on me, and i wish it continues life long [:)]. Its good that all the winning money went into a pool , created to celebrate the pooja.
Evening we all were charged up and roamed in markets and shop to appreciate the beauties out in traditional dresses , lighting and other stuff, and for some shopping too. Oh and i have a wonderful incident to share with. As we all were in market and purchased some Prasad, for pooja , one of my friends expressed a great desire to visit his neighbour aunt and wish her "Haardik Subhecha ( Best wishes in Marathi)".So a few of us, including me supported the idea and went to the aunty's place, what followed was hilarious!! . The real intention behind visiting aunty's place were her three beautiful daughters and we deciphered it, only after entering into the home.
A beautiful rangoli welcomed us, and as we stormed in, were all taken back by the gorgeous ladies, we looked into each others eyes and shared the common and trivial feeling (warm dipawali).Originally we had planned to just pay a one minute visit but it lasted for more than 15 minutes and we distributed the sweets to the young ladies, greeted them with our praise and flirting and in response aunty too invited us to sit down and have some snacks etc and we obliged her :D it was only a friends call which recalled us that we had to go back to home and do the pooja , so with a heavy heart we said good-bye and came out. We had to buy the prasad again as that was left at aunty's palce, and the gals were still lingering in every one's mind.
We reached our place , got scolded , but once we explained the whole scene to others , they were frustrated and said nothing.Hurrr... now we came back to a religious mood,set up our small pooja ghar ,arranged the prasad (Haldiraam rosogulla :D)and offered our prayers to the Maa Laxmi , Ganesha and wished each other Happy Diwali!! (picutres attached) ,it was all boys Diwali this time and everyone was in pooja mood. It was already very late (read 11pm) and we then participated in the rituals of lighting candles and crackers and once it was all over, clock banged 12 and the day was over.
Another Diwali, another festival of the year got celebrated and I wish we all get blessings of God and celebrate everyday of our lives like a festival only.
© Ajay kr Saxena
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