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

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Why the lamps are lit on Deepavail day?

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

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,

-- devishakti_india( divyabhakti )( http://spiritualhinduism.blogspot.com

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