I am now going to my native village for Diwali and Chhath celebration so now i am not available for some days.So a lot of happy wishes on these occasion. I wish this Diwali gives you new light for overcoming from your darkness.
Adherents of these religions celebrate Diwali as the Festival of Lights. They light diyas—cotton string wicks inserted in small clay pots filled with oil—to signify victory of good over the evil within an individual
But what I think in today context it is very important to us for understand the real value and meanings of these great festival. Now what i am observing today that more people are just use this festivals as an opportunity of showing your wealth, false prideness etc. and other are taken as only a custom, in both ways we find we lost the real celebration.
India is a agriculturist country from very beginning and it is today also. We are most sentimental people of world. So why our festival is belonging to our agriculture work and work as a bridge for joining our sentiments. Diwali and Chhath are also a same way celebration.
If we look epics, Diwali celebration is on the occasion of homecoming of lord Rama in Ayodhya after winning great battle with Ravana. So people celebrate and welcome him with the lights (Diya). So why it is called as Deepavali.Over time, this word transformed into Diwali in Hindi and Dipawali in Nepali, but still retained its original form in South and East Indian Languages. In Tamil it is called as Deepavali and the same is used in Malasiya and Singapore Tamils never say as Diwali as it means Fire bucket.On the day of Deepavali / Diwali, many wear new clothes and share sweets and snacks. Some North Indian business communities start their financial year on Diwali and new account books are opened on this day.
The Diwali celebration time is a just post agriculture season. So people have wealth to celebrate and they have to time for celebrate as a society in whole and why this is joins with worship of Goddess Laxmi and Ganesha, giving gifts to relatives, repairing houses, purchasing cloths & sweets etc. All customs have a logic in itself.
As Diwali in Bihar and East UP people celebrate Chhath Puja also. Its total festival of a farmer. The word chhath denotes the number six and thus the name itself serves as a reminder of this auspicious day on the festival almanac. The venue for this unique festivity is the river bank and since the being Ganga transverses the countryside of Bihar like a lifeline it is but appropriate that the rising and setting sun as witnessed on the banks of this river should be the ideal prayer propitiation locale. A week after the festival of lights, Diwali, is the festival Chhath. For one night and day, the people of Bihar literally live on the banks of the river and absence of a river it may be a water sources like pond etc., when a ritual offering is made to the Sun God. It is the bounty of the harvest which is deemed a fit offering for the solar deity.
Adherents of these religions celebrate Diwali as the Festival of Lights. They light diyas—cotton string wicks inserted in small clay pots filled with oil—to signify victory of good over the evil within an individual
But what I think in today context it is very important to us for understand the real value and meanings of these great festival. Now what i am observing today that more people are just use this festivals as an opportunity of showing your wealth, false prideness etc. and other are taken as only a custom, in both ways we find we lost the real celebration.
India is a agriculturist country from very beginning and it is today also. We are most sentimental people of world. So why our festival is belonging to our agriculture work and work as a bridge for joining our sentiments. Diwali and Chhath are also a same way celebration.
If we look epics, Diwali celebration is on the occasion of homecoming of lord Rama in Ayodhya after winning great battle with Ravana. So people celebrate and welcome him with the lights (Diya). So why it is called as Deepavali.Over time, this word transformed into Diwali in Hindi and Dipawali in Nepali, but still retained its original form in South and East Indian Languages. In Tamil it is called as Deepavali and the same is used in Malasiya and Singapore Tamils never say as Diwali as it means Fire bucket.On the day of Deepavali / Diwali, many wear new clothes and share sweets and snacks. Some North Indian business communities start their financial year on Diwali and new account books are opened on this day.
The Diwali celebration time is a just post agriculture season. So people have wealth to celebrate and they have to time for celebrate as a society in whole and why this is joins with worship of Goddess Laxmi and Ganesha, giving gifts to relatives, repairing houses, purchasing cloths & sweets etc. All customs have a logic in itself.
As Diwali in Bihar and East UP people celebrate Chhath Puja also. Its total festival of a farmer. The word chhath denotes the number six and thus the name itself serves as a reminder of this auspicious day on the festival almanac. The venue for this unique festivity is the river bank and since the being Ganga transverses the countryside of Bihar like a lifeline it is but appropriate that the rising and setting sun as witnessed on the banks of this river should be the ideal prayer propitiation locale. A week after the festival of lights, Diwali, is the festival Chhath. For one night and day, the people of Bihar literally live on the banks of the river and absence of a river it may be a water sources like pond etc., when a ritual offering is made to the Sun God. It is the bounty of the harvest which is deemed a fit offering for the solar deity.
But I have not meant to telling you these on today but i want to change the means of festival with changing time for getting objectives of a ideal society. So If we want to real celebration first we finds in our self some demerits in itself as a symbol of darkness and worships to God to give us willingness for won over them. Worships of Laxmi with Ganesh tells us that wealth should be welcomed but it must be with wisdom of earning and spending. So avoid extravagances and use this wealth to create a beautiful society by which we can tells our self that we done our job as a human being and presents an example to our future generation.
I have a one idea more to make beautiful this celebration। We must donate our eyes to coming lights in life of somebody. After death eyes have no use but in this way it has use and meaning. So my dear friends turn your death in a happiness and pride. So please donate your eyes.
A lots of happy wishes again to एवेर्य्बोद्य.
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