Easter is an important day of celebration for people who follow faith of Christianity. It falls on Sunday, 20th  this month March this year 2013.  It follows Good Friday, which is a commemoration of hardships; Lord Jesus suffered for the emancipation of ailing humanity. It is day of expressing our gratitude to son of God for having suffered for us. Another message is the reminder to the humanity that we should face any hardships and suffering with courage and forbearance, with sense of optimism.
Yet another message is that we should feel sorrows of others and should try to lighten their sorrows. It was on this day, Lord Jesus Christ resurrected, three days after he was crucified, showing to the world that God is indestructible and eternal.

Easter is celebrated with grand feast with family members and friends. Jesus Christ, the son of God, resurrected after he was nailed on the cross. The vested interests took objection to his campaign for uplifting the ailing and downtrodden and establishing a just society and attempted to kill him by nailing him to the cross. Lord Jesus Christ due to his divine powers came out of the cross unscathed. Jesus Christ was an embodiment of virtues.  This shows that in the fight between virtues and vices, virtues triumph ultimately. Thus, Easter celebration calls upon people to shun evil qualities and cultivate good qualities .There are parallel legends in Hinduism such as Ramayana, Mahabharath and so on .
Easter celebration precedes 40 days of lent fasting. Fasting stands for self-sacrifice or giving up things to which we are attached or putting up with hard conditions of life. It helps to gain control over one’s impulses and instinct and eschew selfishness. In other words, it helps to develop self-discipline. or to check our tendency to go all out in search of outside sources of joy which may prompt us  to take objectionable ways to living .Thus , we should see Lent fasting  not in its literal meaning of avoiding taking food  which we otherwise take, but as  mechanism  for developing self-discipline  in our life .
Thus the act of fasting has much larger implications and it should serve much larger good. Fasting once in awhile as a physical act itself has salutary health effect .This practice of fasting as a religious custom is practiced in other Religions like Hinduism and Islam. Periodical fasting helps to rejuvenate our digestive system.
So fasting beyond it’s physical health benefits, help us to gain control over ourselves, the need of which is emphasized by all Religions. We find the fundamental truths preached by all the Religions of the world are the same. Thus, the function of all Religions is to reform man and enable him to have divine experience, which lay deep in himself .

Easter celebration is an occasion for having   get- together with family and friends like other festival to renew relationships, to extend hospitality and maintain harmony in social relations. Without social relations, one feels, insecure lonely and anxious. Even birds and animals maintain relationships between members of the same species, called ‘herd instinct ‘. Particularly in the present day fast life, it is for the people to make time to get together with their families and friends for maintaining family and social relations.
 Resurrection of messiah is certainly most joyous occasion to celebrate with grand feast, like other festive occasions .But the occasion should not be one of fun and merry making. The sanctity of the occasion should be preserved by reflecting on the values this celebration stands for and earnestly trying to imbibe those human/ethical/moral/ spiritual values underlying in this festival.
When we look at Easter Celebration in that way, it is a day of celebration not only for Christians but  for the entire mankind .Thus, in short, we should look at what all Easter celebrations stand for and strive to gain maximum benefits from the celebration .