Holi begins with fire and ends with colour. On the full-moon night Holika Dahan recalls the boy Prahlada, whose devotion carried him unharmed through flame; the next day, colour dissolves the distinctions people keep between themselves.
Source: Bhagavata Purana 7.5
śravaṇaṃ kīrtanaṃ viṣṇoḥ
Prahlada names hearing and singing of Vishnu as the first limbs of devotion — the child's answer that no fire could burn away.
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