DEEPAVALI

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DEEPAVALI GREETINGS TO ALL MEMBERS

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from: Krishnanujan

 

 

AASHWAYUJA KRISHNA CHATURDASHI TO KAARTIKA SHUKLA DWITEEYAA

The 14th Day of the dark half of Aashwayuja to the 2nd day of bright

half of Kaartik

If there is one occasion which is all joy and all jubilation for one

and all - the young and the old, men and women - for the entire Hindu

world, it is Deepaavali - the Festival of Lights. Even the humblest

of huts will be lighted by a row of earthern lamps. Crackers resound

and light up the earth and the sky. The faces of boys and girls flow

with a rare charm in their dazzling hues and colors. Illumination -

Deepotsavas - in temples and all sacred places of worship and one the

banks of rivers symbolize the scattering of spiritual radiance all

round from these holy centres. The radiant sight of everybody adorned

with new and bright clothes, especially ladies decorated with the

best of ornaments, captures the social mood at its happiest.

 

And all this illumination and fireworks, joy and festivity, is to

signify the victory of divine forces over those of wickedness.

 

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Jai Shree Krishna !