All About Diwali

"Diwali A Festival Of Celebration

A Victory Of Good Over Evil"

Diwali, Deepavali or Dipavali is the Hindu festival of lights, which is celebrated every autumn in the northern hemisphere (spring in southern hemisphere). One of the most popular festivals of Hinduism, Diwali symbolizes the spiritual "victory of light over darkness, good over evil and knowledge over ignorance." During the celebration, temples, homes, shops and office buildings are brightly illuminated. The preparations, and rituals, for the festival typically last five days, with the climax occurring on the third day coinciding with the darkest night of the Hindu lunisolar month Kartika. In the Gregorian calendar, the festival generally falls between mid-October and mid-November.

Diwali is usually celebrated eighteen days after the Dussehra (Dasara, Dasain) festival with Dhanteras, or the regional equivalent, marking the first day of the festival when celebrants prepare by cleaning their homes and making decorations on the floor, such as rangoli. and decorate their houses with various types of electronics lighting. During the day of Diwali people usually worship lord Ganesha and goddess Lakshmi . People usually brings presents for each others. The most beautiful part of Diwali is the diyas that are lit in every corner of the house, which makes the house, looks brighter than any other day.  The second day is Choti Diwali, or equivalent in north India, while for Hindus in the south of India it is Diwali proper. Western, central, eastern and northern Indian communities observe Diwali on the third day and the darkest night of the traditional month. In some parts of India, the day after Diwali is marked with the Govardhan Puja and Diwali Padva, which is dedicated to the relationship between wife and husband. Some Hindu communities mark the last day as Bhai Dooj, which is dedicated to the bond between sister and brother,  while other Hindu and Sikh craftsmen communities mark this day as Vishwakarma Puja and observe it by performing maintenance in their work spaces and offering prayers.

Diwali represents win of good over bad spirits. It is also known as the festival of lights and is celebrated in India with tremendous joy. It is celebrated in the memory of coming back home of Lord Rama along with his wife Sita & brother Laxman after 14 years of exile. It is believed that on this day, Lord Rama returned to his kingdom, Ayodhya, after killing the demon, King Ravana and people lighted earthen diyas all around their house and celebrated his victory over Raavan. It is a symbol of victory of good over evil. Since then, the festival is celebrated by lighting diyas and candles to drive away the darkness of Amavasya and the dark of ignorance.

Earlier, it was celebrated with diyas but slowly it took the form of lights, lighting lamps, candles and crackers and many more. Now a days, people burn dangerous fire crackers limitlessly. Crackers have big hand in polluting our environment. it affects us in many ways. it creates noise and air pollution. people who are of old age have to suffer the most. The toxic substances used in the firecrackers release toxic gases that are harmful to the health of all living beings. The noise of the crackers cause immense suffering to birds and animals. Diwali is the festival of lights and not burning of the limitless crackers which takes the form of air and noise pollution. We should minimize the use of firecrackers during diwali celebrations and other celebrations. Noiseless diwali has become the concept for the last few years. It is slowly gathering momentum too. But it has not yet reached that level to which we all can say that yes, we celebrated a noiseless safe and pollution free diwali. A festival must be treated like a festival not like enjoyment or nuisance. There is no need to pollute the environment for this. We must take steps to make ourselves and others aware to put an end to noise through rallies, through digital platforms and hoardings. We must not buy unlimited crackers instead of that we can help a poor with that money. we can do things like Sir Ratan Tata. His way of celebrating diwali is commendable. He Donated  Rs1,000 Crore To Tata Patients this is how a legend celebrated diwali. we should learn and try to do such things instead of doing show off. i'm not saying to donate such huge amount. but atleast we should try to and think to celebrate in this way.  After all humanity is more important than showing  how much you have and how much you have spent on yourself. God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with. Try to share the love and happiness with everyone. let's just celebrate HUMANITY.

  

It seems and feels very nice to wish each other by different means. But we must also make each other aware of the harms of the pollution caused by the firecrackers that leads directly or indirectly to global warming. Hence, Say ‘NO’ to Crackers and play a safe, noiseless and pollution free Diwali.

Lord Rama  - 

Son of Kaushalya and Dasharatha and the ruler of Kosal (now in Uttar Pradesh), Lord Rama is one of the most popular and seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu. While we know Lord Krishna has doled out life lessons we want to imbibe; teachings and Ram-vaani by Lord Rama are pretty high-on-philosophy too. And, if you incorporate even percent of it in life; if not nirvana, you’ll at least spend your life in a better manner.We can learn many things from  Lord Rama. He was a perfect man who's having all the good qualities. he was  a perfect son, a perfect brother and a man with a golden heart and perfect role model. i don't know whether god exists or not but why do we care about their existence. we should always learn good things from others. The stories of god's are made for our understanding of what is right and wrong. so why we are so focused on the existence. why don't we try to adapt the GOOD qualities from the GOD stories. So let's focus on good improve ourselves. And don't forget to celebrate this diwali only with diyas no firecrackers. Let us minimize the poisonous effects of crackers and maximize the happiness with earthen lamps. Don't dump the nature's beauty.

Some of Lord Rama thoughts. . . 

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.

“Ravana all your wealth is wasted, what's the use of being rich if you won't spend your gold to do good for other people?” 

“You can't protect Dharma if you don't know what it is.” 

AVOID CRACKERS, CELEBRATE NATURE & HUMANITY!!

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