Happy Diwali to you and your family. May this diwali light up your lives with better health, more wealth and even more happiness.
Diwali means a lot of things to different set of people. While Diwali is popularly known as the “festival of lights” and “triumph of good over evil”, a more appropriate significance for this column’s purpose is “the new year of luck and wealth”. The Diwali festival celebrates the victory of good over evil, light over darkness, and knowledge over ignorance, although the actual legends that go with the festival are different in different parts of India.
Diwali also marks the beginning of a financial year. Stock exchanges in India celebrate Diwali as a “muhurat” day: a beginning for the new year!
How about experiencing Diwali this year?
As we clean our homes, let’s clean our minds and intellects too.
As we wear new clothes, let’s also get rid of our loans and debts. Let’s also get rid of unwanted, disturbing habits of anger, jealousy, worry.
If we really experience Diwali we will succeed in invoking (calling upon) Goddess Lakshmi. Her name comes from the word, ‘Laksh’ meaning ‘the GOAL’, experiencing Diwali (as explained above) will help us reach our goals of life – which Goddess Lakshmi stands for.
Two days after Diwali, we Kayasthas, will settle our old account books and begin new ones, simultaneously let us plan to create new income streams. On the spiritual front, let us settle our old karmic accounts, any unpleasant relationships and begin our relationships in a new, positive way.
We are all aware of the pollution caused by firecrackers, but it is Diwali, we need to burn crackers, so why not burn all the crackers of evil characteristics within ourselves – this burning will in fact purify our minds and the environment.
As we exchange sweets let us also exchange meaningful sweet words, good wishes and blessings.
Once again, I wish that the festival of lights stands for a reaffirmation of hope, and creating a new year of health, wealth and happiness for you.
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