Questions to be asked before we go further as usual..
1.Why are keeping rangoli before your house..?
2.Who asked you to do so..?
3.How many times you keep it a week..?
4.What are the ingredients in the rangoli..?
5.Do you think about insects as god's creation or some waste creatures...?
1.Waking up early encourages a healthy start of a day. It is usually the most productive time in the day. After the ten minutes of Rangoli time, what you get is the most precious time for yourself. Enjoy beautiful sunrise, Have a nice cup of coffee, Do your exercise routine or what ever....Waking up early is also a productivity method of rising early and consistently so as to be able to accomplish more during the day. This method has been recommended since antiquity and is presently recommended by a number of personal development gurus.
2. Rangoli powder is usually made up of rice flour which provides food for ants and other small creatures. It signifies to show the care & mercy towards the smallest creatures which co exist on earth along with us.
3. Traditionally (even today in most of the villages) the water which is sprinkled before putting rangoli is mixed with cow dung( Don't say Yuck..). Cow dung is also used to line the floor and walls of buildings owing to its insect repellent properties for some types of insects and mosquitoes. Cow dung also provides food for a wide range of animal and fungus species, which break it down and recycle it into the food chain and into the soil.
4. In festive seasons like Sankranthi or in general Rangoli is put when people (especially ladies) group together. It improves social skills, learning skills. Believe me, ladies get competitive and do not hesitate to give their time and effort to make their own Rangoli the best.
Funniest thing is during Pongal, New year, women are well awake till late nights creating their own masterpiece. In the morning, if any cyclist unknowingly spoils it, he is dead ;). All ladies who lived in our street were powerful. So, cyclists used to be very careful while crossing it.
5. Rangoli seems to be an easy art. Infact it is, but some kind of Rangoli need lot of practice,creativity,logic,memory. For example try this.
6. Rangoli gives the person who made it, a sense of satisfaction, achievement, confidence with no/ very little cost. All you need are place and little rice powder/or any white/coloured coarse powder which are very much affordable. What we create is purely left to our imagination. There is a possibility for different permutations and combinations for what we want create without worrying about money we spend. I think, Rangoli can be a very interesting hobby.
7. Fingers are very important parts of our body. Some of our body's most sensitive receptors are in finger tips and these are actually end points of nerves. Rangoli provides good amount of exercise or warm- up for finger tips, wrists and hands. Also, traditionally women do not sit while making Rangoli rather they stand and bend their body towards ground with out bending knees. It is a way of Trikonasan ( an exercise) which tones inner thighs, legs. It also pulls in the tummy automatically. Because the head is bent down, blood flow gets directed to brain. In total, traditional Rangoli making is a way of indulging women to perform yoga or exercise automatically everyday.
8. Most of the Rangoli designs are symmetrical in shape. Any thing which is symmetrical in shape/design is beautiful (at least for me). As John Keats said "a thing of beauty is joy forever".
9. Can you believe that Rangoli was used as way of secretly teaching war plans in ancient India? I may not be able to show an evidence for this. It is a word of mouth. Royal forts or palaces were mostly symmetrical in shape and their top view resembles Rangoli design. Some intelligent women who do not have a chance to fight in the war physically, used their imaginary skills to draw plans about going forward or escaping in the safest way by using different colours and symbols.
10. Putting dots and connecting them is the foundation for some Rangoli designs. Dots might be symbols of stars. Just like sun-signs and moon-signs, Rangoli might be a mystical quest for understanding sky and star orientations.
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