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Easy rangoli designs - beginners

Though I have drawn all the designs myself personally I am thankful to my family for the inputs, information and help in drafting all the posts so far.  I have used the terms kolam  rangoli quite freely in all the posts. Probably there would have been differences based on classical (!) explanations in the past but today kolams can also be colourful like rangolis both in the free hand and dots type  I find that even the terms rangoli kolam and kolam rangoli are used at  present. The only area where I think kolam are different are in sikku kolam and arisi maavu kolam. Both are beautiful, challenging and can be intricate . Rangoli is muggulu in Telugu and so this post will be useful for those in search of small and simple muggulu for beginners.  This post   may have answers  kutty rangoli /kolam designs The rangoli in the image below is one of the basic designs that can be used for learning.   Form a star with two inverted triangles.   ...
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Benefits of kolam rangoli singificance

 There may be many answers to this question.  A beautiful explanation I received through a Whatsapp forward recently. 
A wealthy businessman with his family had the darshan of Mahaperiya  🙏🙏 (His Holiness Jagathguru  Shri Chandrashekharendra Saraswathi Mahaswamigal or the Sage of Kanchi)
The rich businessman had many problems in life and so sought the blessings of Saint to overcome them.
He asked the Saint "Why do I face so many problems "
Mahaperiya asked him whether his family had the tradition of drawing kolam daily at the entrance of the home
He said "Yes "
Swami asked him who drew the kolam.  The businessman's wife replied that it was drawn by the servant.
Swami smiled and replied, "Drawing kolam is the way of offering Pooja to Bhoomadevi to whom we are indebted.  Since your servant draws the kolam , she gets the blessings of Bhoomadevi"
So let us follow His advice and draw kolam daily at the entrance of our homes and get the Blessings of Mother Earth.
Of course we can add other benefits like
a) good exercise to the brain, mind
b) improves hand eye coordination 
c) by bending down and drawing the kolam we perform variations of some yoga postures according to my husband who is a student of yoga asanas for four decades.  He says when we bend, we perform a minor variation of Uttanasana (bending forward at the hip) while moving around a minor variation of Chatushpadasana (walk as done by quadrupeds like cow) is performed.  I invariably do not sit.  However, when we sit to fill colours for big rangoli designs it can be Vajarasana (the way Japanese sit as seen in movies) or Siddhasana (a simple cross-legged pose, not padmasana)
Let us see how to draw a simple kolam through few images.       

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Benefits of drawing kolam - creativity 
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Benefit of drawing rangoli - concentration
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Benefits of this art as per the viewers and readers - based on the feedback and comments, I receive.
a) "It keeps the mind free from clutter, and it is so meditative"

This post may answer the questions why we draw kolam or why do we put kolam.

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