Wear Yellow at Vasant Panchami for Success in Your Studies / 🇮🇳 India

Give a new subject a clear beginning. Choose a yellow scarf, shirt or other piece of clothing and put it on before opening your notes. In celebrations of Vasant Panchami, yellow marks the season and honours Saraswati, the Hindu goddess associated with learning, music and the arts. In a home version, the colour can remind you that the next few minutes are for something you want to understand. Pick one question before you begin. You can put a passage of music on your stand, read the first page of a course book or sketch the first lines of an idea. Choose a task you can return to tomorrow.

1. Find a yellow garment you already own. Put it on and set out the notebook, instrument or materials for what you want to study.
2. Write down one thing you would like to understand by the end of the week. Keep it specific enough to turn into a first action.
3. Take a breath and say a short wish for your studies. Open the book or notebook, then spend a few minutes on the first question or exercise.
4. Note where you stopped and decide when you will return. If you are marking the day with someone else, ask what they would like to learn.

Vasant Panchami celebrates spring and is dedicated to Saraswati, who is associated with knowledge, music and the arts. Yellow clothing is part of the observance. At Basara in Telangana, children are introduced to learning in a ceremony known as Akshara Abyasam. That ceremony gives the beginning of a child’s education a moment of its own. The wish to learn can also make sense for an adult starting something unfamiliar. In a home practice, the colour gives you an opening gesture and the notebook gives you a next step. After the day has passed, the words on the first page will show you where you began and what you wanted to find out.