celebration

i am in love with the whole idea of celebrating festivals...
festivals for my family means...new clothes(grandeur at its limit) , loads of puja and infinite no. of delicacies and yes a real late meal.
we have festivals going all year long and today is Ugadi ( New year)
The main agenda of a festival in my house to wake me up early...and to make it even more exciting...i have to take a bath immediately i am out of my bed..( so unusual ) and then the real thrill...i get new clothes to wear...all silk and all...then a little jewellery after a lot of tantrums..

Looks like dad is born to perform pujas...he gets all ready in silk...with all his pooja equipments and sits right in front of god. that means he cannot get up till all the pooja is over. and i have to run around for simply everything.

Then my mom comes dressed in the shining, glowing silk and loads of gold...with wet hair thats randomly tucked...she looks beautiful....( very unusual ) she makes the prasad with a lot of love.( no wonder why it tastes so well)
The most beautiful pooja according to me is the panchamruta abhishekam...
loads and loads of milk, curd, fruits, dry fruits, honey, sugar is showered on god with beauty and grace.
The concept behind this act being that "god it is u who has given us all this and we take pleasure in offering it back to you .. so give us more and more...so that we offer u more and more" (wisdom at its height na)
But why am i so happy about it...because i get to drink that beautiful thing....believe me......its the most amazing thing for my taste buds....
the beauty of performing a pooja is the amount of flowers, the insane sticks...the love and the devotion with which it is performed....
today when i was witnessing a panchamruta abhishek and god was being showered with all the nice things...i wanted to say...can i also sit there ... can i also play in the rain of milk...can there be a lot of honey showered on me....can there be fruits all over me...the coconut water bath...
the dry fruits trembling down me....can i be there...where u r... or may be on ur lap......[:)]