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The Auspicious Gurpurab

Gurpurab, commemorated as the auspicious Guru Nanak Jayanti, is celebrated as the birth anniversary of most revered Gurus of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak Ji. This is the biggest and undoubtedly the most sacred festivals of the followers of the Sikh religion. Guru Nanak Ji is revered in almost every household of the Sikh follower for he is believed to be the first ever teacher as well as the forerunner of this celebrated religion, Sikhism. Apart from Sikhism, the day is marked with huge celebrations among the certain sections of the Sindhis as well as Hindu Punjabis. Every year, the festival is celebrated in the month of November.

It is believed that the religious beliefs and customs of Sikhism have been propagated due to unrelenting efforts of ten main Gurus, the first among them being Guru Nanak Ji. The birth anniversary of each one of these Gurus is celebrated as Gurpurab. Guru Nanak Ji’s birth anniversary is religiously followed and celebrated by each and every follower of this religion.

The festivities
This auspicious day generally commences with Prabhat Pheri, basically an early- morning procession carried out by a group of ardent followers. The procession culminates with the singing of religious hymns around the localities and finally a visit to the Gurudwara where prayers are offered to the almighty. It is followed by a procession of Akhand Path, which is a non-stop reading session of the holy book, Guru Granth Sahib and is carried out for forty eight hours. The reading session is carried out inside the Gurudwara by selected ardent followers of the religion and is open for all the believers to pay attention to.

Further, the celebrations are marked by yet another important procession carried out by the selected five beloved ones. The procession is better known as the Panj Prayas. Typically, in this procession, the holy book, Guru Granth Sahib is placed in a beautifully decorated palanquin. The palanquin is then rotated around colonies and localities to give a chance to the devotees to offer their prayers and respect to the almighty. On the other hand, like every procession, this one’s too accompanied by a group of believers who sing the hymns and attract the attention of the passersby towards the Lord.

Apart from the traditional celebrations, the followers indulge themselves into social service activities as well. Followers devote themselves in the preparation of a grand feast, better known as the langar, in the Gurudwara which is kept open for all devotees to relish. Distribution of water to the needy, food to the hungry and karah Prasad (auspicious sweet) to the devotees completes this festival. An element of fun is added to the celebrations with huge family dinners and get-togethers followed by bursting of crackers.
Guru Nanak Ji was a great teacher, saint and a seer. He showed the right path to re-affirm their faith in the almighty, to all his followers. His preaching and lessons on peace, love and righteousness are cherished even today and well celebrated on the Guru Nanak Jayanti.   

Easter Coloring Pages

Easter is one of most popular Spring season festival comes with many colors. Its the event to enjoy and cheer specially for kids. They spend fun time by decorating Easter eggs, Easter bunnies or even with Easter coloring pages.

Easter coloring pages, are probably one of the easiest way to keep your kid busy all day and to make him understand the significance of Easter. You can buy coloring pages from various shops or you can even download them through internet. Just digg for Easter Coloring Pages over internet browse results or images and print them on paper.

You can keep a reward for coloring it the best. This will increase the excitement in your Kid.

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Cards for Mardi Gras

Cards with traditional symbols such as masks, feathers, embellishments, fleur de lis and other designs are used in the Mardi Gras cards. Colors such as green, gold, white and purple are generally found in the cards of Carnival festival. Since the festival is all about fun and grand celebration, ecards or paper greeting cards usually have such pictures representing the festival. The cards for Mardi Gras give an essence of the festival with pictures such as Mardi Gras party, Carnival celebration, Carnival parade and so on. Special wishes are sent along with the greeting cards for the occasion. Some of these are:

“Part hard and celebrate Mardi Gras”

“Party till you can’t anymore on Mardi Gras”

“Let the Carnival Fever get you on Mardi Gras”

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Beautiful Love Quotes

Love cannot be defined in words, but can be expressed using these as means. This is what is done by poets or lovers all over the world. Beautiful love quotes express the condition of your heart and is often chosen as wording for love greeting cards or ecards like the ones in DGreetings.com. Truly beautiful love quotes like the ones by famous authors and literati’s are intelligently compiled liners that showcase different emotions associated with this feeling.

Well-known beautiful love quotes:
Love quotes find its way through greeting cards, ecards, text messages, emails and various other mediums traveling straight to the heart of your beloved. On occasions like Valentine’s Day or even without an occasion, these can be sent to your near and dear ones. Some of the beautiful love quotes are:

“Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”-Leo Buscaglia

“The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.”-Leo Buscaglia (Born For Love) ~

“Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”-Kahlil Gibran

“My debt to you, Belovèd,
Is one I cannot pay
In any coin of any realm
On any reckoning day.”-Jessie B. Rittenhouse

“Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart.”-Kay Knudsen

“Live through feeling and you will live through love. For feeling is the language of the soul, and feeling is truth.”-Matt Zotti

Chinese New Year at a glance

Chinese New Year is one of the most important festivals for the Chinese community. This is a fifteen day event that ends with the well-known Lantern festival. Held as per the Chinese traditional astrological calendar, the year is marked by symbolic significance of a creature. Chinese New Year 2011 is here as the Xin-Mao Year or the ‘Year of Rabbits’. The festival is celebrated with its traditional color of red.

Chinese New Year festivity:
Chinese New Year celebrations bring out the cultural richness of the community. Special festive recipes, masked parades and traditional dance forms are a part of the New Year celebrations. During the festival, people take part in various religious activities too. They visit temples and monasteries and pay respect to the ancestors.

Dragon dances, lion dances and colorful Lantern Festival are the highlights of the festival. During this time of the year, people clean their house and surroundings to summon luck and success and keep away evil. They also participate in activities such as family get-togethers, exchange of gifts and partying with near and dear ones.

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Friendship Day - Celebrate The Gift of God With Your Friend

Friendship is a treasured gift that is held very dear by those who are blessed with a sweet friend. Are you the lucky one who is endowed with this rich gift? On the first Sunday of every August the world celebrates friendship day. Seek this opportunity to impart your message of love, affection and gratitude to your friends. She/he may be your childhood friend, someone you have met recently, or someone you have known for quite sometime now. Finding a special friend is rare indeed and if you are the lucky to have been blessed, make sure you maintain your friendship at all cost. Your happiness doubles when you share it with him/her, your tensions and worries vanishes at his/her mere presence and your world becomes a beautiful place to live in when he/she is there by your side. Don't you think friendship day is a great opportunity to tell him/her what they mean to you?

The day is just round the corner so plan a surprise for him/her and be the first one to send in your greetings. A simple gesture and a small token of your affection and love for her/him will surely make his/her day. Our e-cards are definitely one of the best ways to communicate your heartiest feelings on friendship day. We have cards of the following categories: 'Friendship Day Miss You', 'Happy Friendship Day', 'Friends Forever', 'Gift of your Friendship', 'Friend Like You', 'True Friendship', 'Friendship Smiles' and 'Recipes for Friendship'.

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