HH Srirangam Srimath Andavan's Deepavali Message - A Translation

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Srimathe Ranga Ramanuja Maha Desikaya Namaha:

Dear Bhagavathas,

Adiyen's humble pranams.AdiyEn has made a very feeble

attempt in trying to translate Srirangam Srimath

Andavan’s message on this auspicious day of Deepavali

for the benefit of all bhagavathas who cannot read

Tamil. Whatever errors may be found here is purely

adiyEn’s poor interpretation. I request all the

bhagavathas to pardon adiyEn for the same. The

original message in available in the following URLs:

http:www.andavan.org and

http://www..org

 

DAsan

Venkatanathan Sreenivasan

Srimath Andavan Thiruvadi

 

HH Srimath Andavan – Sriranga Ramanuja Maha Desikan’s

Srimukham

 

Our ancestors celebrated all festivals with very good

reasons. They felt that the future generations should

celebrate these festivals with the same fervor as they

did. Most of these festivals are

celebrated to bring prosperity or

celebrated to stress the value of thanksgiving or

celebrated as per wishes of certain people or

celebrated as prescribed in scriptures and for lots

of other reasons.

 

Before Deepavali, one has to take Naraka Chaturdasi

Holy Bath. As per the wishes of Narakasura who was

killed by Lord Krishna with His consort SathyaBhama,

this ritual is performed. As per Brahma purana Holy

Bath has to be taken with Gingelly Oil during the time

of Moonrise. At that auspicious time, Goddess Lakshmi

is present in the oil and Ganga is present in the

water. By doing this, one gets immensely benefited.

After the bath, Yama Tharpanam has to be performed.

 

"On the day of Amavasya during the time of Pradosha,

"Ulka Dhanam" has to be performed which translates to

bursting Firecrackers for the present day period. On

doing this, Pithrus in one’s lineage gets immensely

benefitted " as quoted in Jyothir Nibhandham and

PrAchya Nibhandham with well laden proofs. Even in

Linga Purana,some special mentions about Deepavali can

be found.

 

On the day of Deepavali, if the star happens to be

SwAthi, it is considered to be even more auspicious.

This year happens to be one of those. Also, Deepavali

is celebrated on the day of Amavasya as per the wishes

of Bali Chakravarthi. What the kings have to do on

Deepavali has been clearly mentioned in Bhavishya

Purana. A king has to feel that his kingdom belongs to

Bali's world and his people should celebrate Deepavali

with grandeur during the later part of the day. While

his people celebrate Deepavali, he should go around

the city by walk to see their celebration and return

back to his palace with full happiness and contentment

that his kingdom belongs only to Bali.

 

Also on the day of Deepavali at night, the women

should play different kind musical instruments at

their home to ward off poverty and bring in

prosperity to their family.

 

As prescribed in Aditya purAnA, during the evening

hours, they should perform Lakshmi puja in their homes

and business and also wear new clothes. New clothes

are also worn after taking Naraka Chaturdasi

SnAnA(bath).

 

Therefore to destroy evil forces and to bring moral

virtues in our life, we should take up the path shown

by our ancestors in celebrating these festivals in the

right way, there by bringing prosperity and peace to

our family and our homeland.

 

 

 

 

 

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