Why the lamps are lit on Deepavail day( spiritual and scientific)

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*Why the lamps are lit on Deepavail day?

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*http://www.sathyasai.org/discour/1988/d881109.html

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*This Amavasya *day is the day of liberation for *the gopikas. *It is a

moonless day when the night is utterly dark. The *gopikas *prayed that as on

that day they had got the light of freedom it should be marked by

illuminations which would make everyone rejoice as on a full moon night. It

is for this reason that the day, which is a New Moon Day, is illumined by

lamps and fireworks and turned into a Full Moon Night.

 

There is a scientific reason also for this celebration. With the end of the

rainy season water stagnates in many places and the surrounding areas teem

with mosquitoes and other insects. The smoke from the lamps,crackers and

fireworks destroys these insects and disinfects the atmosphere.

 

The inner meaning underlying the Bharatiya festivals should be rightly

understood. Note, for instance, the fact that the whole array of lamps are

lit by the light from one lamp. That one lamp symbolizes the Supreme

Effulgent Lord. The others symbolize the light in individual selves. The

truth of the *Vedic *saying, "The One willed to become the Many" is

exemplified by the lighting of lamps by the flame of one. The

*Deepavali *festival

thus bears out the profoundest spiritual truth.

 

The lamp points to another significant fact. Wherever it may be placed, the

flame goes upwards only and never moves down. Likewise, the flame of *Jnana

*(Spiritual Wisdom) leads one to a sublime level through the path of

Righteousness.

 

NOTE: In the above paragraph the line "The smoke from the lamps,crackers and

fireworks destroys these insects and disinfects the atmosphere " also

implies :

 

1) The loud bangs that destroy eardrums during Deepavali/Diwali are not

necessary

 

2) It also means not polluting the air with fireworks filled with a high

amount of sulphur and potassium nitrate.

 

3) It does not mean burning fireworks worth rupees thousands on a single

night while hundreds of our own brothers starve in the country.

 

4) It also means that great care must be taken and not use firewoks

indiscrimately that causes a thousands of cases such as that of burns,

houses on fire, physical injuries,loss of eyesite,etc

 

5) The highly poisonous fireworks we use today cause serious harm to asthama

patients and pregnant women, hence the need to avoid much of the

firecrackers that are present today's commercial market.

 

6) Hence , stick to using traditinal oil lamps of oil for Deepavali

 

7) Hence , use the money saved from buying firecrackers , to feed the less

unfortunate ones , who cannot afford a single-meal a day. Let us show that

this Deepavali , we care.

 

Namaskar,

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