Especially in traditional circles where the traces of the past are still alive, people experience the meaning of the festival in a more vivid, colorful fashion, on cushions or sofas, or around stoves or fire-places in their humble houses or cottages, or under the trees among the flowers in their gardens, or in the spacious halls of their homes. They feel the meaning of the festival in each morsel they eat, in each sip they drink and in each word they speak about their traditional and religious values. Religious festivals are of a much greater significance for children. They feel a different joy and pleasure in the warm, embracing climate of the festivals, which they have been preparing to welcome a few days before, and, like nightingales singing on branches of trees, they cause us to experience the festivals more deeply through their play, their songs, smiles and cheerfulness. Religious festivals provide the most practical means for improving human relationships.
People experience a deep inward pleasure.
They meet and exchange good wishes in a blessed atmosphere of spiritual harmony. It is especially when the festival permeates hearts with prayer and supplications performed consciously that souls are elevated to the realm of eternity. They then feel the urge to get rid of the clutches of worldly attachments and live in the depths of their spiritual being. In the atmosphere overflowing with love and mercy, a new hope is injected with life. Believing souls welcome the religious festivals with wonder and expectations of other-worldly pleasures.