Happy Blessed Rainy Day to all my Blogger
friends.
I swam through an ocean of past, my youthful
days, those days that were jammed with memories, the memories of past Blessed
Rainy Days; a day before Blessed Rainy Day, our heart would be bubbling with
excitement. The night would past with a nap. The time a cock signals a birth of
day at 3 in the morning, we’d be out of bed ready for a bath, the cleansing
bath believed to rinse off sinful demerits we have had accumulated until date.
Everyone would ensure timely bath is taken anyhow. For those who haven’t taken
bath for long, it would be an annual bath they’re taking. Interestingly, there
are many in remote villages who’d fit into this category. But, today, the
situations have changed radically and I can’t construe it the same.
Those memories were triggered by a call I
received from my cousin brother. He said that he has planned this year’s
Blessed Rainy Day at Paro, for family-friends gathering concurrently.
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Since I came to Thimphu after completing my
undergraduate to look out for job in 2012, we have had similar gatherings for
last two years. So, without a tinge of hesitation on a plate of my decision, I pressed
an endorsement button for this intimately family plan he’d come up. This is one
of a few days we could have family-friends get-together which otherwise is
seldom possible. I cannot afford to toss away this day without a colour of
memory for it. The hassle and bustle of daily affairs won’t arrange such beautiful
gathering so frequently. This out-of-blue, seldom-tip-toeing day, emerging out
of marshy daily schedules, must be put alight to savor the merriments in an
uncertainly life we hold ourselves. So, the day has to be earmarked for
important, entertaining, memory making activities. Also, day is a religious one
and has to be religiously passed.
For my foreign friends, FYI; Blessed Rainy Day
marks an end of monsoon season and beginning of harvest season. The day is
declared a government holiday across the nation. On this day, people take bath
at a particular auspicious time as determined by an astrologer, with a belief
that it would cleanse off all the bad deeds and pollutions of life that
would’ve accumulate bad karma. I suggest you guys to take bath on this day
(tomorrow, 23rd September 2014) to rinse of your negative karma.
Happy Blessed Rainy Day to all. Thruebab Trashi
Delek!
Happy Blessed Rainy Day. Make it a memorable one. Thanks
ReplyDeleteHappy Blessed Rainy Day Sangay sir. Have a wonderful time with your friends and family. A great week ahead! Take Care :)
ReplyDeleteSame wishes Sir, The Buddha Nampar Nangzey will be releasing shower to purify our bad deeds and negative karma. Enjoy it la.
ReplyDeleteHappy Blessed Rainy Day bro. May all prints of your negative deeds be cleansed and you start your life on a new clean slate with better strides. Enjoy the day!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blessed Rainy Day to you too Sangay! Have a good one! :)
ReplyDeleteHappy Blessed Bright Rainy Day brother Sangay. May our minds be bathed in wholesomeness. Have great togetherness. Hope everything is going well everyday. Take Care. :)
ReplyDeleteGoing through the line of post, it let me to remind the those memory of childhood days. I just missed those days.
ReplyDeleteAnd brother, I wish you Happy Blessed Raining Day. Enjoy the day and take care at the same time.
Thanks guys for your wonderful wishes and dropping by. Your wishes are deeply cherished and you guys have a wonderful day ahead. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHappy Blessed Rainy Day. The rain can definitely signal a new beginning--a cleansing of sorts.
ReplyDeleteHappy Blessed Rainy Day, Sangay! You are right to put aside the daily bustle and make time to spend with your family. Family is precious. It's hard to imagine bathing once a year, but I do know that when we lived in Northern Canada, we had weekly baths. When you have to haul the water from a lake, purify it, heat it, and wash in a metal tub, you tend to take baths less frequently. Usually there are very good reasons behind customs that seem unusual. Once we began living in places with lots of hot water, I came to love those daily hot showers! Tomorrow I will remember it's Blessed Rainy Day and scrub my way to cleaner Karma!
ReplyDeleteI found your post on littering very interesting. It's a tough problem. It's hard to change ingrained behavior in others.
I'm a serious recycler. Sometimes my husband says, "Why do you bother recycling such small pieces of paper? What difference does that make?"
And I say one person might start others. If a million people a day recycled just one little piece of paper, think how much paper that would be."
So I do what I have control over, and I believe that you can bring about change over time. But it has to start somewhere. Sometimes I carry a bag and pick up any trash I find. Maybe local communities could have a clean-up day where everyone helps pick up trash. Maybe on Earth Day, April 22nd. That's one day we really focus on littering and recycling here in Colorado.
I hope your week is going well, Sangay!
Happy Blessed Rain Day! It's nice to learn about this special day.
ReplyDeleteA rainy day be a very cathartic thing. Running in the rain, dancing in the rain, looking up into the rain and letting it hit your face. Rain is a beautiful thing :)
ReplyDeletesangay sir you have nicely reflected on 'Blessed rainy Day'...i hope the rain would have cleansed every bad dots n no exception for me tooo...thanks
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