...More about me:D
i am a proud Hindu with all my gods, festivals, foods and traditions. i follow my culture and religion faithfully and pray to Bhagvan(God). Since my accident, i have been very close to god and the traditions i have been brought up with. I take note of everything now and do everything possible to grow with knowledge, life, peace, god, family and love. I have learnt my home language and can speak a bit. I have immersed myself into learning the ways, how to cook the food, speak the language and re-sight the prayers. I am bringing order and stability into my life this way and its making me stronger. I believe god brought me back into this world to do great things and be great so I look to him to find my way, I look to him for guidance and love, I look to him for strength. He has given all this and more to me.
I have found great fascination in the colours seen in my religion and the festival of Holi. This festival is celebrated by all now in Cape Town with throwing coloured powder, called kanku, all over each other yet they don't know why. This upsetted me a bit as its not just fun, theres a deeper meaning people should know. Holi is celebrated on Phalgun Purnima which comes at the end of February or early March. The festival has an ancient origin and celebrates the triumph of good over evil.
the meaning of the colours can be seen below:

COLOR MEANINGS:

Red
is the most exciting color and is known to escalate the body's metabolism. Dark red has anger implications it indicates high energy, determination, and much passion.  Found not only in the lores of ancient medicine but in the superstitions of modern times, red has been viewed as the vigorous color of health. The color red has also been a representation of love within a relationship between two people. Red has come to mean beauty, love, stength, energy, courage, career, goals, power, and willpower. In Hindu belief, red represents the Kundalini or genital chakra.

Orange
is the only color of the spectrum whose name was taken from an object, the well-known and popular fruit called the orange. The fruit comes from an evergreen tree. Because the tree is evergreen and ever-bearing, the color orange became associated with fruitfulness. In folklore the color orange stands for fire and flames, lust, vigor, excitement, adventure and wholesomeness. Orange also has meaning for success, stimulating energy, justice, attraction, endurance. In Hindu belief, orange represents the sacral chakra.


Yellow
is cheerful but can become irritating if alone for too long. dark yellow can be oppressive while light yellow is breezy. In heraldry, where it is called for (for gold) the color yellow stands for the positive virtues of faith, constancy, wisdom, and glory. It also has been thought of as being a color that represents playfulness, light, creativity, warmth, mental powers, charm, confidence, vision, joy, enthusiasm, optimism, and an easy going attitude about life. The color yellow also has many negative associations as well, among them are jealousy, treachery, cowardice, aging, and illness. In Hindu belief, it represents the solar plexus chakra


Green
is peaceful, the color of a spring meadow. Bright green can be uplifting and dark green evokes the mental image of a grove or forest. Reappearing in springtime, after the dull, seemingly colorless winter, it became a symbol of fertility and growth, of abundance and external life. The color green represents harmony, growth, abundance, vitality, healing, and nature and radiates a feeling of fullness.  Green has come to mean youth, growing, healing, success, good luck, and beauty. Green It is said that green is the most restful color for the human eye. Green has great healing power. It can soothe pain. In Hindu belief, green represents the heart chakra.

Blue
is the most calming color. It is considered to be the second most powerful color after red and blue is the color of constancy and faith. The soothing color blue stands for sky, good health from good air, sensitivity, truth, sleep, healing, hope, friendship, protection, calm, creativity, patience, wisdom, peace, loyalty and ones desire to nurture. Around the twentieth century it became a symbolic representation of the male gender. In Hindu belief, blue represents the throat chakra.

Indigo or dark blue
is the color that indicates dignity, tranquility, higher intuition, psychic powers, and trustworthiness. It is as calming and shares many traits with blue but being darker the affect is more intense and powerful. Since indigo has some of the shading of violet, it shares some of the traits of violet as well.it provides calm and coolness without cooling your intent. In hindu belief, it is the color of the thrid eye chakra.


Violet or purple
is the color of royalty but rare in nature and perceived as artificial. Light purple or lavender is a fashion favorite while dark purple implies wealth. The color purple is symbolic of power, spiritual goals, passionate belief, visionary leadership, respect and wealth and has been worn by emperors, military commanders, and other high-ranking officials. It also has come to symbolize psychic ability, success, wisdom ,power, spiritual growth, and independence. Lavender has come to mean reverence and royalty. In Hindu belief, purple is the color of the crown chakra.

White
is a dichotomy with innocence on one side and sterility on the other, it means everything and nothing at the same time. White is, literally speaking the absence of all color. Symbolically white symbolizes truth, purity, peace, protection, happiness, and the masculine divine. White can sometimes have a negative meaning as well. It can symbolize the pallor of death. The color white projects feelings of calmness, relaxation and an inner peace with ones surroundings and inner soul. In India, as in Christian weddings, while most brides wear white, but it is usually relieved by at least a touch of some other color. If a married woman wears unrelieved white in India, she is inviting widowhood and unhappiness. In Hindu belief, white symbolizes energy in the hands.

Black
In many languages and cultures, black was associated with evil (and white with good). Both in art and in religion black signified despair, sin and mourning, satanic ritual, darkness and the underworld. Despite the color's many negative associations, in heraldry black, called sable, also stands for virtues of constancy, prudence and wisdom. It also has positive meanings of purity, binding, repelling, remembrance and protection. In Christianity, it stands for Death.

Pink
is the color of romance. Pink also symbolizes love, fidelity, friendship, honor, harmony, compassion and faithfulness. In Hindu belief, pink is also a color associated with the heart chakra.

Brown
is the color of the earth, evoking wistfulness or melancholy. light brown confers genuineness. Dark brown is reminiscent of fine wood and leather. Brown symbolizes animal majick, home, friendship, grounding, herb majick and Earth and the direction of North. In Hindu belief, it symbolizes the energy in the feet.

Silver
is the color that symbolizes encouragement, removal of negativity, and moon majick.

Gold
is the color that symbolizes solar deities, solar majick, and attraction.

Gray
is the color of neutrality and glamories.