What Diwali Teaches Us?
Diwali-the festivals of lights, the triumph of good over evil. Diwali is celebrated to mark the arrival of Lord Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana back to Ayodhya after 14 years. Lord Rama won over evil with discipline, tolerance, humility, divinity, and righteousness.
Basically, the festival is for five days. Each of the five days of Diwali (Dhan Teras, Naraka Chaturdasi, Diwali, Padwa, and Bhayiduj) is distinguished with its own set of rituals rooted in history and mythology.
Every year we celebrate Diwali with great joy and pomp. But once Diwali is over we get back to our mundane lives. Very rarely we go deep into the wisdom and lessons that this great festival holds. This Diwali let’s take a look at some of the lessons we can choose to learn from this festival.
1. Embrace the light to remove the negativity. We light diyas and lamps to remove the darkness of the night, which actually means to remove the darkness from our heart, soul, and mind.
2. We clean our house, workplace, offices and thus welcome goddess Laxmi. The cleaning is not limited to our houses and offices, it means we must clean our heart, mind, and soul from all the negativity, bad habits and allow positivity to enter. Be more loving and kind towards each other to invite positivity in your heart, mind, and soul.
3. We share sweets with our friends, neighbors, and family. It signifies that sharing is caring, the actual message is that we should share happiness with others. Also, sharing things with people who work for us or with underprivileged people will bring a smile to their faces and makes their Diwali sweet and memorable. Sharing Happiness with others will for sure double your happiness.
4. Diwali signifies good triumph over evil. Every unpleasant thing will come to an end one day for sure, what you need to do is to have patience. We must have patience, no matter how long the wait is, time changes, and things will be in favor.
5. Diwali usually starts with the Brahma Muhurta (roughly one-and-a-half hours before sunrise) and that’s usually around 4:00 a.m. This early wake-up is considered to be the first step to a disciplined life and is symbolic of mental and spiritual awakening.
Diwali Festival comes to make us understand the importance of good. It reminds us how good always wins over evil, how light wins over darkness. Also, that we should share sweets (sweetness) with others, that we should consider everyone equal. Diwali is the festival that makes us aware that sharing and making someone happy is what humanity is all about and it is what every religion teaches us.
Let’s pay heed to the true meaning of Diwali and put into practice these divine qualities. There is no better time than the festival of lights to make a fresh start.
May this and every Diwali spread lighting in everyone’s heart and may it spread sweetness in our soul.
🎇🎇Happy Diwali🎇🎇
