Posted on 09/06/2015 5:24:31 PM PDT by Steelfish
Mumbai Celebrates Krishna's Birthday By Building Human Pyramids Dahi Handi festival is celebrated in Mumbai by people building human pyramids trying to reach the pot of curd hanging above the ground
06 Sep 2015 The birthday of the Hindu deity Krishna was celebrated in Mumbai on Sunday, with the annual Dahi Handi festival. The tradition involves participants, known as govindas, forming a human pyramid to reach a pot filled with curd hanging above the ground.
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“All this for a pot of curds”
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“Curds? I thought you said Kurds.”
That explains the wild shopping and hysteria in my local Indian market when I went to buy my UK-imported chocolate! They had masses of gorgeous representations of various gods and goddesses displayed. Always some eye-candy at Indian markets.
I saw an Indian woman buying 10 pounds of butter the other day.
Krishna was a cowherd and so likes butter.
Also, Indians clarify the butter and make wick lamps out of it for spiritual celebrations.
The Krishna belief system is interesting -- to me more like hero-worship, but then I come from a monotheist mindset
And, if they want to be pagan or any other non-Christian and mind their own business, let them -- it's better than Moslems whose idea of a good time is slaughtering Christians
But seriously, as I said above - if they want to believe whatever they want and leave the rest of us alone to believe what we want, that's fine. The Hindus I've known are open to hearing about Christ -- they don't want to believe ONLY in Christ, but they listen to you or tell you politely that they don't want to believe, but they don't threaten to cut your head off...
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