New Year Celebration

04 Jan 2025 05:29 PM Article

In ancient days, people celebrated the New Year by giving Neem Leaf along with some jaggery;
something bitter and sweet. And then people looked at the calendar: Because knowledge of time,
and acceptance of sweetness and bitterness, gives strength to move ahead in life.

Neem is good for health though it is bitter. It destroys harmful bacteria. In life, what you considered
as biter has given depth, made you strong. The challenges that came to you made you grow stronger
and humbler.

Jaggery represents sweetness. It gives you comfort. If life is only bitter, it cannot be sustained. If life
is all sweetness, there is no depth.

In the cycle of time, there is always something happening, and there are some less palatable events.
In unfavourable times, you need to have strength, courage and knowledge. When good things
happen, you must share it with others and serve.

On New Year’s Eve and Day, we honour time, life and creation, and thank the divine for what the
past year has given to us. The past has given many lessons, and New Year’s Eve is the time to reflect
on these lessons.

Welcome with open hearts the New Year 2025, and the wisdom, health, happiness, prosperity it is
about to bring. Wish for wisdom more than anything else because when there is wisdom, happiness
follows spontaneously.