to Manjushri about spring cleaning

[Guest guest]

Dear Manjushri ~ It was wonderful to read your post. Is the "Haft sin" a kind of spring cleaning? It sounds like it is, and that it is done as a spiritual celebration day. I love that idea. I don't like spring cleaning, but after reading this, I had a different view point. Could you share a bit more about this, what is done and why and the rituals, if there are more beyond the dals, mirror and candle... And how wonderful that you sensed Maa and Swamiji with you. Many thanks ~ Linda

P.S. If my understanding of what you describe is wrong, please let me know.

 

 

Manjushri wrote:

WE have been busy for the last couple of weeks cleaning our house -scrubbing it to a sparkle, turning out all our shelves and cupboards. When I was arranging the 'Haft sin' with sprouted dals, mirror, candle,and ....I could feel them watching and encouraging me! A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps!

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Dear Linda,

Nowrooz is a Zorastrian tradition that still continues in Iran's post Islamic

era. Nowrooz is to welcome Spring, which begins on 21st March every year. The

Persian calender which is a solar calender does not rotate as compared to the

calender which is normally used, whereas the Hindu and Arabic calenders do;

therefore Nowruz falls on the same day year after year. It is celebrated in

India, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan and Central Asia.

The Haft Sin is an arrangement of seven items starting with the Persian alphabet

'Seen'- Seer (Garlic), Sirkeh (Vinegar), Samanu (a sweet made of sprouted

wheat), Senjed (a berry), Sib (Apple), Sekkeh (Coin)and Sabzeh (sprouted wheat

or pulses). Red fishes in a bowl, a mirror, coloured eggs and candles are also

part of the arrangement.

Nowruz is symbolic of new beginnings and a victory of good over evil.

People clean their homes, make new clothes and sprout seeds symbolically

welcoming new beginning.

On the last wednesday of the previous year people light bonfires and jump over

it asking the fire to take their paleness and to give them the pink of health.

So the rituals are in a way similar to Holi, Lent & Easter and Spring Equinox

celebrations in different parts of the world. ...

Iranians really put their heart and souls into all the rituals described above.

Nowrooz happens to be one of the few pre-islamic festivals retained lovingly by

people after the onset of Islam in Iran.

So while Maa and Kamalaji are preparing Durga Maa's murtis for Navratra, I have

been cleaning the house and preparing the Haft Seen...., as many Christians have

been celebrating lent, ash wednesday and easter... How I love the diversity!!!!

 

I like to believe that the source is in the Mantras from the Vedas that Swamiji

has lovingly and scrupulously translated, and that Maa inspires us to understand

and imbibe.

 

Jai Maa! Om Namah Shivaya!

 

Love

Manjushri

 

 

 

, nierika wrote:

>

> Dear Manjushri ~ It was wonderful to read your post. Is the " Haft sin " a

> kind of spring cleaning? It sounds like it is, and that it is done as a

> spiritual celebration day. I love that idea. I don't like spring cleaning, but

after

> reading this, I had a different view point. Could you share a bit more about

> this, what is done and why and the rituals, if there are more beyond the

> dals, mirror and candle... And how wonderful that you sensed Maa and Swamiji

with

> you. Many thanks ~ Linda

> P.S. If my understanding of what you describe is wrong, please let me know.

>

>

> Manjushri wrote:

>

> WE have been busy for the last couple of weeks cleaning our house -scrubbing

> it to a sparkle, turning out all our shelves and cupboards.

> When I was arranging the 'Haft sin' with sprouted dals, mirror, candle,and

> ....I could feel them watching and encouraging me!

>

>

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