In history Mother's Day was celebrated by Greeks dedicated to Rhea, the mother of many deities, and to the offerings ancient Romans made to their Great Mother of Gods, Cybele. Christians celebrated this festival on the fourth Sunday in Lent in honor of Mary, mother of Christ. In England this holiday was expanded to include all mothers and was called Mothering Sunday.
I all abpve scenarios i found some people celebrated in the honor of individual's mother and some people celebrated for the Godess who is mother of all Gods.
In Indian prospective, we celebrate Devi Navarathri's in the name of Shakthi who created this whole world and considering her as mother of all Gods and Gandharvas.
And celbrating Mother's day for our own mother's will be in remmebering her care, her tears shed for bringing us up, and many more million things she gave us, ... Does this seems to be controlling all our feelings and expressing our feelings to our mother must be made to only this day?
What about all other days...does we simply ignoring the importance of our mother in our day-to-day life?
How many poeple are living in India with out thinking that "If it is my mother... she can do this, she will say like this...she will be like this..." ;
So to my knowledge celbrating Mther's Day in Indian culture is giving disrespect to our culture of respecting, honoring our Mother every day.
So, frinds, dont celebrate the day, and no person will forget their Mother, as she is who, with out her, you are not here in this world.
if you stay away, dont call your mother and say that on this occasion of Mother's Day, i am remembering you which makes her feel sad about your rememberance.
2 comments:
Let me first appreciate you on your blogging effort. Pretty good. Would like to see more from you.
On this particular topic on celebrating Mothers Day, I would disagree with you. Celebrating Mothers' Day does not necessarily mean that you do not remember your mother and what she is, was, will be to you and your existence. It definitely can be taken more positively. Remembering Mahatma Gandhi on October 2nd does not mean we forget about him the entire year, nor celebrating a birthday means we do not value life through out the year. I feel though all Indians understand and respect the mother sentiment, I am not sure how many people express their love towards their mother. How many people wish their mothers on her birthday in India? Its changing for the better but definitely not good enough. Atleast this day can be an excuse for celebrating mothers in general or another pretext to make your own mom happy!
Thank you Ravi.
But i want to say one thing here...that this Mothers day celebration is not from our culture or nation. The people who live in other countries like USA or UK, children after reaching 18 years of age , leave their home and stay to live independently. So for them on this day, they can meet their parents and celebrate it.
But for Indians, Parents will never leave their children even though they get an age of 80 years.
Now-a-days, life has becoem so much mechanical and people in hurry to earn more money are struggling their lifes away from parents. but still when ever we get holidays or festivals we rush to our home towns to spend with our parents as well as in our home.
Celebrations now became too much commercial which has been made by corporate companies to celebrate these days so that people are rushing to gift shops, buy greetings online...etc that increases retailers revenue who sale those beutiful gifts.
you try to know how much turnover the greeting card companies are raising for each such celebrations....you will be shocked to know the terms.
Thank you for the comments you made.. Keep suggesting me.
All the best
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