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00:00Holi is a great festival of awakening if understood in the Vedantic way.
00:05Hiranyakashyap, he was a devotee and what did he ask for himself?
00:07He said, I will not die this way, I will not die that way.
00:10So, blind devotion doesn't work.
00:12You can be a great devotee and still be operating from the center of ego and greed.
00:17What you are doing is for just your own sake.
00:20So, even if you happen to obtain something, it will be used in the service of your ego
00:25and that will bring destruction to everybody just as Hiranyakashyap did.
00:29And then emerges somebody from his own family, his own son,
00:32who says even if he is my physical father, I value truth more than my father.
00:36And then Dharmorakshati Rakshata, he valued truth and the truth came to protect him.
00:40In the legend, it's in a very physical way, very dramatic way.
00:44If you are cunning and drunk with power and authority,
00:47some or the other way will emerge to bring you down as happened with Hiranyakashyap.
00:52If you can understand what the story is pointing at, then Holi can be a festival of awakening.