Pray to the equipments or Ayuda Pooja

On one day when I was on my way to work I was very surprised seeing all the cars adorned with flowers and paintings. It was really gorgeous. They have put palm leaves all around the cars. Inside the cars they installed light chains flashing on and off. At the beginning, I didn’t thought about what I could be. Then at work, the same view. Now, even the systems had been adorned by having put a little colourful pattern on the top of the system. It is a kind of festival at which the Indians pray towards the equipments. It is called Ayuda pooja. Well and this also takes into account that all the equipments are being adorned for the time of the festival. It is done because the equipments contribute enormously to everyone’s success. Without having equipments working when they are required to work, Indians were lost. So they pray to them hoping that the equipment won’t break down. Ayuda pooja traces back to a legend. It is said that a man had to pray towards his wife to get her recovered from an injury. But he was only allegedly praying to her. In fact he was praying to arms and rifles. Since she recovered from her injury, Indians follow now the same rule. Actually, I don’t know if it has really happened or not. But it is strange that people pray to equipments. But it is like that and that’s why India is different but admirable.