Recent spate of thinly veiled attacks against Hindu festivals and generally Indian culture, with environment or some such plausible reason put forth, has left a bad taste in minds where it has registered that such plausible reasons are not being applied to stop other, far more obvious, practices, whether of other faiths or of modern life. The post that points it out by illustrating the fraudulent attitude of the so called seculars compares treatment of two different cultural practices. Gulabi on one hand as traditionally worshipped in India, vs Xmas as blazing across most metropolises in India, and the attitude if the said secular related to them.
Xmas belongs to Nordic latitudes, where snow and darkness of short days combine to make it a much needed coming together of families, with rich food, and gifts-bearing visitors from further north arriving on sleigh adding to joys.
The tree brought in, in those lands of Nordic latitudes, is from the abundant forest around, and it's decorated for a while as it gives a fresh scent, before it's chopped for firewood for much needed warmth, which is natural too, in those cold months.
Celebration on shortest day of the year, as it must have been long ago, is very natural too, feeling happy that now on days will get longer.
For those unaware, even in Southern Germany days can be very short in winter, and are on the other hand quite as long in summer, with sky still clear pale blue at 11 p.m.!
So Xmas is natural - in Nordic lands.
It looks silly even in CA where it's bright sunny all year round mostly, but in England with its cold and dark where the festival is lit by lights around houses, it's beautiful with lights. Germany has people also put up wreaths on front doors, in this season usually from the same pines, a decoration with scents of nature around, which adds to loveliness.
Copying it with every t crossed and i dotted In tropical lands such as India is the colonial subject mindset folly.
Those that call themselves liberal or secular in India are often far from so, and are in reality merely obedient to powers North West of India with an ever kowtowing pose, as proved by their attitudes on various topics and events.
Tulasi, and its benefits, are universal, and growing the plant where possible outdoors, or attempting it indoors if in not so tropical a land, is good universally.
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