Tuesday, October 18, 2011

religious aspects

 Nepal is a religious country . Nepali peole are living with their religion from birth.Nepali people are seriously concerned with their religion.There is a vast diversity in religion.Nepali religion tells that the world was created by 3 gods Bramha,Bishnu and Shiva. Each caste have its own religion.but most of the religions are originted from Newars.Brahmin are known as high caste and considered as priest of temples.From birth Nepali people are  following religion.After every  birth a ritual should be done called Nuwaran.Ater that in teen age they had to do another ritual called Bratabanda.Nepal is filled with festivals.Dashain  and Tihar are the main festival.All castes observe this festivals.Dashain is of 15 days.Gasthapana in which seeds are cropped in soil to grow jamara,Phoolpati in which the jamara are taken out,Vijaya dashami in which people visit their elders and put tika jamra all includes  within 15 days.15th day is the day of Purnima(full moon) when  Dashain ends.After some weeks later people observe Tihar.Tihar is observed within 5 days in which kaag puja,kukur puja,gai puja ,laxmi puja ,bhai tika is observed.Goddesh  Laxmi(god of wealth) is worshipped . People play dheusi bhailo,dance sing,go to relatives house.Tihar ends with bhai tika .Holi is also one of the festivals in people play with colours.In this day a evil named Holika was killed so people congratulate each other with colours.There are others many festials like Teej celebrated by women for their husband long life and to get good husband for unmarried women,krisnajanmaasthami to celebrete the birth of krishna,gurupurnima to respect teachers and many more.There are jatras like gai jatra,ghode jatra,indra jatra .Nepali people doesnot like if the religion and customs are hamperad or insulted.

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