By BK Sister Shivani

Right now, as you read this, you are playing Holi. Not with gulaal or water, but with something far more powerful. Our emotional vibrations are like colours. Every thought we create carries a shade.

Every word we speak carries a colour. Every feeling quietly paints someone’s inner world. Just as powdered colours travel in the air and gently settle on everyone around, our vibrations constantly radiate outward. They travel through space. They touch people. They influence situations. They leave an imprint, sometimes beautiful, sometimes not.

Think about it. When you enter a room feeling angry, your heavy energy makes others uncomfortable. When you are peaceful, people naturally feel calm in your presence. This is the Holi of invisible vibrations being played all the time. Festival colours wash away within hours. But colours of our vibrations can stay with people for days, years, and sometimes even across many lifetimes as karmic imprints.
When we judge someone, we throw dark, muddy colours on them. When we speak with empathy, we shower them with soothing hues. The question is – are we consciously choosing the colours we radiate?

The power of choice

What colours are we splashing today? Often, it is colour of jealousy when contentment is needed. Colour of suspicion when trust would heal. Colour of comparison when selfworth is required. Colour of hurt when forgiveness is calling. Colour of conflict when harmony could be restored.

Yet life has given us a beautiful power – to choose colours we throw, even when people or situations throw different colours at us. Today if a situation is unpleasant, we instantly complain. It happens in a split-second – unaware, automatic, reactive – like a reflex.

Gently remind yourself, ‘People may cheat, deceive, ignore, criticise, judge, or shout at me…but they cannot enter my mind and create my thoughts for me. I choose how to think about what they did.’ This is emotional independence – our power to remain calm, stay stable, and respond consciously.

True strength is not matching someone else’s colour. It is improvising it. When someone throws unpleasant energy (colour) at us, we have three choices:

● Reflect: We return the same energy. Hostility for hostility. Ego for ego.
​● Absorb: We internalise their energy and suffer. Their rejection becomes our insecurity.
​● Transform: We receive their low vibration, but we send high vibration that dissolves and transforms their energy. They give arrogance, we return humility.

Don’t wait for people to change their colours. Become the artist of your own palette. It doesn’t mean we become weak; it means we become so powerful that no external colour can stain our inner purity. That is the spirit of Holi.

Every morning in meditation, we perform our own Holika Dahan. We burn the dry wood of ego, resentment, painful memories, and other weaknesses in the fire of soul consciousness. Our divinity emerges, overcoming the evil within.

This Holi, don’t just colour your face – colour your consciousness. Don’t just celebrate one day – make life a celebration. Because when you change your vibration, you don’t just change yourself. You influence every soul you meet. You raise vibrations of the world. Decide today: What will be my signature vibration?

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