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Raksha Bandhan: The bond of love and protection
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Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:38
ANY GIRL or woman who has shared loving ties with a brother knows inexplicable joy, and a bond so sacred that it is sacrilegious for anyone to even attempt to corrode it – either with words or actions. Raksha Bandhan, Rakhi Purnima, or Rakhi, is a festival primarily observed in India and in communities worldwide that have Diasporic residents of Indian descent, such as Guyana.
This beautiful festival celebrates the relationship between brothers and sisters. The festival is observed by Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs, with the central ceremony involving the tying of a rakhi (sacred thread) by a sister on her brother's wrist. This symbolizes the sister's love and prayers for her brother's well-being, and the brother's lifelong vow to protect her.
Raksha Bandhan falls on the full moon day (Shravan Poornima) of the Shravan month of the Hindu lunisolar calendar, primarily as a Hindu calendar event. However, it grew in popularity after Rani Karnavati, the widowed Hindu queen of Chittor, sent a rakhi to the Moslem Mughal emperor, Humayun, when she required his help against invading armies.
Humayun responded with great love and protected his rakhi sister’s principality from invasion and, since then, even adoptive brothers are given due rights and respect by sisters to whom they promise eternal love and protection.
The festival is marked by the tying of a rakhi, or holy thread, by the sister on the wrist of her brother. The brother in return offers a gift to his sister and vows to look after her as she presents sweets to him. The brother and sister traditionally feed one another sweets. Since Indian kinship practices give cousins a status similar to siblings, girls and women often tie the rakhi to their male cousins as well (referred to as ‘cousin-brothers’).
Although Humayun was the most famous adoptive brother, traditionally unrelated boys and men who are considered to be brothers (munh-bola bhai or adopted brothers) can be tied rakhis, provided they commit to a lifelong obligation to provide protection to the woman or girl.
Adjunctive to this sacred relationship is the status accorded to a sister-in-law (bouji or bhabhi), who is considered as a mother figure to her husband’s siblings, and who vows to strengthen the bonds between siblings in her sasural (her new home), and often a younger sibling would seek the intervention of a bhabhi when seeking help from, or to pacify the anger of, elder brothers.
Sadly, in current times this beautiful traditional practice has been abandoned and more often than not the sister-in-law acts in ways inimical to unity in the family into which she has married, often instead creating chaos and rivalry between siblings and destabilising the entire family unit, which causes irreparable loss in family that is never mended.
There is great agony for sisters whose brothers abandon this relationship, because no instigation from anyone should break this sacred bond forged in the wombs of mothers, or through the channels of love.
Yesterday, rakhi day was celebrated by brothers and sisters throughout the world. These are the beautiful traditions of humanity that transcend and bridge human divides across the world. (Parvati Persaud-Edwards)
Source: Chronicle News Paper
Go to Wikipedia - search word - raksha bandan.
Raksha Bandhan: The bond of love and protection
Written by
Saturday, 13 August 2011 23:38
ANY GIRL or woman who has shared loving ties with a brother knows inexplicable joy, and a bond so sacred that it is sacrilegious for anyone to even attempt to corrode it – either with words or actions. Raksha Bandhan, Rakhi Purnima, or Rakhi, is a festival primarily observed in India and in communities worldwide that have Diasporic residents of Indian descent, such as Guyana.
This beautiful festival celebrates the relationship between brothers and sisters. The festival is observed by Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs, with the central ceremony involving the tying of a rakhi (sacred thread) by a sister on her brother's wrist. This symbolizes the sister's love and prayers for her brother's well-being, and the brother's lifelong vow to protect her.
Raksha Bandhan falls on the full moon day (Shravan Poornima) of the Shravan month of the Hindu lunisolar calendar, primarily as a Hindu calendar event. However, it grew in popularity after Rani Karnavati, the widowed Hindu queen of Chittor, sent a rakhi to the Moslem Mughal emperor, Humayun, when she required his help against invading armies.
Humayun responded with great love and protected his rakhi sister’s principality from invasion and, since then, even adoptive brothers are given due rights and respect by sisters to whom they promise eternal love and protection.
The festival is marked by the tying of a rakhi, or holy thread, by the sister on the wrist of her brother. The brother in return offers a gift to his sister and vows to look after her as she presents sweets to him. The brother and sister traditionally feed one another sweets. Since Indian kinship practices give cousins a status similar to siblings, girls and women often tie the rakhi to their male cousins as well (referred to as ‘cousin-brothers’).
Although Humayun was the most famous adoptive brother, traditionally unrelated boys and men who are considered to be brothers (munh-bola bhai or adopted brothers) can be tied rakhis, provided they commit to a lifelong obligation to provide protection to the woman or girl.
Adjunctive to this sacred relationship is the status accorded to a sister-in-law (bouji or bhabhi), who is considered as a mother figure to her husband’s siblings, and who vows to strengthen the bonds between siblings in her sasural (her new home), and often a younger sibling would seek the intervention of a bhabhi when seeking help from, or to pacify the anger of, elder brothers.
Sadly, in current times this beautiful traditional practice has been abandoned and more often than not the sister-in-law acts in ways inimical to unity in the family into which she has married, often instead creating chaos and rivalry between siblings and destabilising the entire family unit, which causes irreparable loss in family that is never mended.
There is great agony for sisters whose brothers abandon this relationship, because no instigation from anyone should break this sacred bond forged in the wombs of mothers, or through the channels of love.
Yesterday, rakhi day was celebrated by brothers and sisters throughout the world. These are the beautiful traditions of humanity that transcend and bridge human divides across the world. (Parvati Persaud-Edwards)
Source: Chronicle News Paper