Daily Vichar

Hello everyone, welcome to my 16th blog. I hope you all are healthy and fine. Before starting today's blog, let me wish you all a Happy Dussehra. May all your tensions dissipate as light awakens the dark room. As you may know, I am a Gujarati, and you must be aware that today, we enjoy a lot of Fafda and Jalebis. But why do we do so? The reason is that in Hindu scriptures, it is a ritual that any fast must end by eating food prepared from gram flour (Fafda). The reason for Jalebi is, as per scriptures, Lord Ram loved a sweet called Shashhkuli (Jalebi), and Lord Hanuman loved items prepared from gram flour. I know many of you must be familiar with this, or like me, you might have just learned about it today. Apart from this, we also celebrate the victory of good over evil. Lord Ram, after fighting for nine long days, vanquished Ravan on Vijayadashami. I always chant "Hey Ram, Hey Ram" because that's our Lord, our dharma, and our culture. Chanting his name  provides me ...