Diwali-Significance of the lamp!
Hello all, Namaste! Happy Diwali! Wishing the 'Festival of lights' to bring happiness, light, and love into all of our life. Many of us are happy to light the lamps and feel very happy celebrating Diwali with the family and friends. Hope all of you celebrated too, last week. But did we anytime think about the underlying significance of the lamp? Let us discuss today how we can interpret it from a mythological and philosophical sense. Narakasura: The previous day of Diwali is celebrated as 'Naraka Chaturdashi". The mythology is Naraka was born to the earth mother or Bhudevi (Bhu- Earth, Devi-Goddess) and Vishnu or Hiranyaksha (both versions have been narrated in mythology). Anyway mother Bhudevi wanted her son to be very powerful and prayed to Vishnu; Vishnu, in turn, blessed her with that boon. Now Naraka was a very powerful king, learned in all tantras and mantras and ruled over his kingdom very well. But later he became friends with another asura called Bana.