Deepavali – The festival of lights – 2022

 

Deepavali – The festival of lights – 2022 

This festival is considered a celebration of Rama’s victory over asura – Ravana. This festival is celebrated as a victory of Good over evil. This is a reminder to one and all that however powerful, able, rich might be the evil, bad or a lie, it always loses to Truth. Truth prevails – always!

This isn’t a story of just Rama and Ravana. This isn’t a story that’s over. This is story of each one of us. There is Rama in each one of us. There is Ravana in each one of us. Rama represents ‘the path of Dharma’. Ravana represents ‘our lust, ego, greed, arrogance, vanity, ignorance’ – in short everything and all of our weaknesses. However big may our weakness grow, however justified may be the acts of ego, yet in the end only Dharma prevails.

This Deepavali, let’s light up our inner Rama. Let’s vow to work on killing our Ravana within. Let’s kill one ‘head of Ravana’ – each representing one of our weakness – each single day of our life. This Deepavali, let’s burn our ego and its related nature within us. Let’s burn asura within us and let Rama within us express himself! Let’s bring ‘Ramarajya’ – the right way! 

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Question time :

Are our festivals just a tradition blindly followed by you?

Why do you celebrate Deepavali?

What does it represent to you?

How did you celebrate Deepavali this year?

On Deepavali - On cleaning during Deepavali

 

On Deepavali

On cleaning during Deepavali

It is a ritual in India to clean every nook and corner of our house and place of work before the onset of Deepavali – the festival of lights! We perform Pooja to Ma Lakshmi – The Goddess of Wealth! We believe that we receive in abundance “the wealth” depending upon how clean our house is!!! So, rich and poor, small and big residents is busy cleaning the entire house. Everyone is busy cleaning their premises. Those who don’t clean regularly also clean without fail before Deepavali. Such is the custom and belief!

Now, what is the connection between this festival and cleaning? Is it just a superstition? Should it be brushed aside thinking to be as baseless as idol-worship (as supposed by many well-read intelligent westernised mind-sets!!??)?

No, it is basic common sense that a person is healthy in a clean environment only. Covid has taught this basic principle to one and all in the entire World. So, I don’t need to emphasize on that here again. So, moving on, only a healthy person can be more productive and thereby earn more than a sick person. That is point one. Next is, that you spend less on medical expenses when you are healthy, which also reflects in your financial abundance.

The next point is, that this is the season of cold weather in Eastern countries – more so in India. The rains have just left and there is a weather and climatic change that we find is conducive for microbial organisms to flourish. Was this also not emphasized during Covid – the sanitisation of the entire house? So, we do this in the name of religious ritual. 

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Deepavali – The festival of lights – 2022

 

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Deepavali – The festival of lights – 2022 

Let’s show to the world the glory of ‘Rama’ by living his word and living by Dharma! Let’s express our ‘hindustv’ by living by it. One who hates people of other religion is not a ‘bhakta of Rama’. One who wants to kill others is not a ‘Hindu’. One who lives by ‘Dharm’ is a hindu, a true bhakta of Rama. Let’s be his devotees the real way! Not just talk, let’s walk his way!

Next Deepavali, let’s come back with our journey and our achievements over our inner demons. Let’s come back to celebrate killing Ravana within us – next year. Let’s do it from today! And continue every single day – may be in small quarters – but let’s overcome our asuric nature little by little.

Jai siya ram!

Happy deepavali – let’s light up our inner chambers with bhakthi, commitment, faith, patience and purity!

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On Deepavali – On reviving the Rama within and killing Ravana within

 

On Deepavali – On reviving the Rama within and killing Ravana within

This Deepavali, let’s do lanka dahan the right way!

We see “Raavan Dahan”. We go to attend “Ram leela” every year maybe too!

But, is it just a drama that we are attending. Are we going to enjoy just the theatrics of Ramleela?

Read “  https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2022/10/deepavali-festival-of-lights-2022.htm” to revive Rama within.

We enjoy killing Raavan. We enjoy burning the effigy of Raavan and think we are “Good hindus”. But is it all there is to be a “good Hindu”? Raavan represents the Asuric nature within every human born. It is not about a person. It is about the quality of ‘an asura’. Now, do we have ‘asuras’ in present time?

So, let’s visit the meaning of “asura” first. Asura is a quality that says a person who is asuric in nature revels in harming others. He doesn’t think twice before hurting and even killing children, women and old people. He derives sadistic pleasure in the pain and suffering that he causes to his fellow human beings and life in general. Sometimes, he has personal agenda, like in the case of Raavan, it was his lust for women that he caused so much of pain to women folk at large and also to their family members.

But, a person who kills others in the name of caste, religion and God also comes under the category of a asura. Every time, in history whenever a person /society had targeted a particular caste or religion to mass murder, it is a asuric nature and act in force. Such person or persons are asuras in present day. Do they belong to any particular religion or region? No, never! They are found in every religion and region. Wherever there is hatred, mass killings in the name of honour or God there is asuric nature in action. 

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also read: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/2021/01/if-winter-comes-can-spring-be-far.html