Gifts that Speak your Feelings

While gifts are known to be the best expressions of your feelings, choosing the most appropriate gift for the occasion becomes essential. Well, thanks to the Internet that has brought the world to your living room. It is only a matter of time before you start looking for the best gift in the websites of online gift stores and get what you wanted. The online gift stores give you a plenty of options to choose from, no matter what your budget is.

For a gift to convey your feelings well, there is a need to answer certain questions. What is the age of the person? Are you buying a gift for a boy or a girl? What is the type of the event? If you are buying a gift for someone very close, you are most likely to know his or her preferences. Choosing the right gift in that case becomes much easier. If you do not, hover your eyes on the huge collection and try to find out what is that thing that you think will best express your feelings. Like gifting flowers or flower arrangements is the most preferred choice.  This is because everyone loves flowers and are usually associated with love and care. 

Remember, it should be the taste of the receiver guiding you and not yours. So, if you are still in a maze try getting some help from your friends and family or ask your store representative to guide you with the selection. 

Happy Diwali

HAPPY DIWALI

 Diwali, also spelled Divali ,  one of the major religious festivals in Hinduism, lasting for five days from the 13th day of the dark half of the lunar month Ashvina to the second day of the light half of Karttika. (The corresponding dates in the Gregorian calendar usually fall in late October and November.) The name is derived from the Sanskrit term dipavali meaning “row of lights,” which are lit on the new-moon night to bid the presence of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth. In Bengal, however, the goddess Kali is worshiped, and in north India the festival also celebrates the return of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, and Hanuman to the city of Ayodhya, where Rama’s rule of righteousness would commence.

During the festival, small earthenware lamps filled with oil are lighted and placed in rows along the parapets of temples and houses and set adrift on rivers and streams. The fourth day—the main Diwali festival day and the beginning of the lunar month of Karttika—marks the beginning of the new year according to the Vikrama calendar. Merchants perform religious ceremonies and open new account books. It is generally a time for visiting, exchanging gifts, cleaning and decorating houses, feasting, setting off fireworks displays, and wearing new clothes. Gambling is encouraged during this season as a way of ensuring good luck for the coming year and in remembrance of the games of dice played by the Lord Shiva and Parvati on Mount Kailasa or similar contests between Radha and Krishna. Ritually, in honour of Lakshmi, the female player always wins.

Diwali is also an important festival in Jainism. For the Jain community, many of whose members belong to the merchant class, the day commemorates the passing into nirvana of Mahavira, the most recent of the Jain Tirthankaras. The lighting of the lamps is explained as a material substitute for the light of holy knowledge that was extinguished with Mahavira’s passing. Since the 18th century Diwali has been celebrated in Sikhism as the time Guru Hargobind returned to Amritsar from a supposed captivity in Gvalior—apparently an echo of Rama’s return to Ayodhya. Residents of Amritsar are said to have lighted lamps throughout the city to celebrate the occasion.