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Diwali is celebrated on the NEW MOON IN THE MONTH OF Karthik, celebrate the return of Rama, 7^th reincarnation of Vishnu, his victory of Ravna king of Lanka, Raavna abducted Sita. His sister supernakha felt disgraced by Raama and Lakshmana, he disguised himself as Brahman and lured Rama and Lakshma away from the hermitage and then he comes to abduct Sita. Lakshman  drew a Lakshman Rekha (a protecton ring) that Sita was not supposed to cross, as soon as she crosses, Ravana abducts her and take her to Sri Lanka. Raama had to take the help of Hanuman and range of mankeys to cross over the ocean and to reach Lanka.

 This War happened over the Navaratri and on 10-th day (dashsera) he killed Raavna,

 Raavana was very intelligent and is depicted as ten headed person (that is his intellect was equal to ten times of a most intelligent person). After killing Raavna, Raama performed some penance and then headed back to Ayodhya. 

 Citizen of ayodhya realized that both Sun and Moon are debilitated. In order to welcome the entoutage, the citizen lighted the oil lamp (Deepavali). Lighted the entire pathway, when Raam lkashman returned, so they can  find their way home.

Message:

Lakshmi pooja means – invocation of goddess Lakshmi goddess of properity, we usually think of monry but it isi inner wealth, happiness, contentment, poornata, feelingof secure ius all this is Lakshmi, we invite this abudance into our heart and our home. She is in the form of Light, jyoti, wich dispels ignorance about oneself, that it is the ultimake ignoranc. Hopefuly she will have Vijaya over alakshmi, if Lakshmi is fullfillemtj, security, guess what alkshmi sense of insecurity, sense of lack, these feeling sof inner dridyra needs o be removed with propert samskara.

 

In Sri suktmam, oh lasksmi chooses toy and alkashmi in me should go. Let go of shadow side of Lakshmi, it is our own shadow siode. It is easy to say

How to invite Lakshmi, by doing pooja, cultivate a attitude of gratitude. If you want to keep, you shou;ld share, the more you give, the more she …inviting prosperity in wealth sense…depavali is inviting ceremonially into the heart.

Spritual significance connected with Mythology

Certain places deepavali is not a one day event, starts with Dhan teras ; Dhan means welath, and Tera is 13th - 13th tridyoshi.on this day, it looks like Paravati played a gamble with Shiva replicating Bhoga. Artha Kaama predominately. on 14th day, Chaturdashi - different version, north claims it as Manabali and south it is narakasura. This deepavali, a lord Krishna defeated Narakasura (son of Bhuma devi) and he asked for boone that he should be remembered for his giver. Who is narakasura? All auraa are inside; Kaama, krodha, anger all are asura. Out of anger you do many things. Kaama and Krodha basic enemy inside everupne and needs to be conqure, you can conqure by taking the life style or Dharama. One leading a lifestyle of Kaama and Artha in keeping with Dharma, converts an animal man  into Man man. Deepavali is conqueting the enemies that are inside us. When you conqure these enemies that will be there Ananda. This is in the form of cracker. When u bust cracker, there is a joy. 

This Kaama and Krodhan inside me is gone, then there is a sign of Ananda. This is by we are depicting by Lakshmi Pooja.

When Deva and Asura were chrning the ocean Lakshmi came out and she was the most beautiful. Lakshmi just not mean money; dhan, dhanya, danran, aadi, vijya, virya all are lakshmi. You get everything, by lifestyle of dharam. How much money do you want and return back to your own country? 10million, 30 million...100 ..1000, million, billion, trillion...life doesn't stop, kaama has no end, artha has no end.

who is satisfied with Pooja? People want punya punya and Punya...doesn't end. Where does it end? Only in Moksha. Laksmi Pooja is an indication of Dharma, Kaama and artha ...moksha includes all purishartha. when that is accomplished, when that fulfillment is found, u r busrting cracker, the whole thing is replicated, how to get this moksha, gyanam by knowledge. Knowledge is indicated by light. Deepa means light. aVaali means arrangement indicating the light dispelling darness. Darness indicates ignorance. Nothing but victory over your inner klesha. on dwitya, yama dwitya also an important day, bhai dooj. what is the significance, as a sign of victotu, Krishna goes nback to siter's house, when brother and siuster come together there is connection, u r dharma, artha kaami before, now u r no more a materialstic person, is now Shreya margi, u r going to live new life. suppose to wear new clothes, oil bath, have shuddhi. every religious festivals is to make you samskrit purusha, get up in 4 and have bath, then only go to kitchen. Ypu made a new resolution, indication Get up in the morning and change your life style. It is meant to change the life sytle. Your life style needs to be changed and that's what the festivals, connects you yo ishwara, connects to your family and connects to atma vichara.

Connected to my inner psyche, inner growth. After the success of Diwali, on nthe 2nd, Krishan went to Sister;s house, Sister invites the brother home and we think that the brother has to give money. Money is a token of love. Once someone gets to moksha marga, mark of success. Yama dwitya, he came out of Naraka, yama, and ruled the world. Festivals are meant to look at the life and life style needs to be changed.

Let us take the resolution, rise early, spend sometime every day, I am going to take the practice of medittion, chant some prayer, but there should be a mark of change in your life. If there is no change, there is no diwali. Every festivals needs to be connected to me. These are meant for change ininner disposition.

Swami Viditmananda

Hapy Deepavali.

Deepa - avali - deepa is lamp pand avalli - row and it is a row of lamp.

Decorate home wipth the oil lamp, they have their own charm adn beauty and conveys joy and that;s what it stands for

1) Lord Rama and sita returned to ayodhya - amavasya month of ashvina, Deepvali stands victoruy of good for evil. Victory of light over darkness, knowledg over darkness

2) Goddess Lakshmi is worshipped, new account books, and perform the worshop of lasjmi

stands for wealth , propsperti and forture

The one is very fortuna, home of virtutus people

Same lakshmi becomes alakhmi in the people of unvirtuous people

manifest as modesty, intelligence in people of good action. This is goddess lakshmi bestoes beauty and prospeity on devotees. 

Dharma artha and Kaama; name and fame when acquired on the basis of dharma, Lakshmi brings happiness. We should be the master of Lakshmi, boundary has to be observed, Wealth, fame and empowerment as soon as value of contributor, having lakshi is very important.

Goddess Lakshmi was born from sheer samundra and chose Vishnu as consort

Dhan teras, Chaturdashi is dedicate to Kali - conqur all evils

Victory of knowlede over darkness

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1) remove negativity to bring positivity in our life.
on this day, we clean our home to welcome the goddess laxmi in our home. but we forget to clean our heart from negativity so that god can resides in our heart. so resolve to let go of bad habits, negative thoughts and wrong friends. be more loving and less egoistic is the way to invite god in our life.

2. have patience
every ordeal comes to an end. no matter how long is the wait. time changes and nothing last forever. so if you are on the right path then keep on moving without worrying about the length of journey. one day it will come to an end and you will be remembered for your patience and good deeds. we should take inspiration from bhagwan rama not only for his patience but also for living a life of dharma and virtue.

 3) share to bring joy in everyone life
on this day, people buy sweets and share them with their friends, relatives and neighbors. this add lot of joy and festivity in the air. its a lesson for us to share whatever good or extra we have with the less privileged people. in the inner world, whatever we share increases and whatever we hoard decreases with time. so this diwali, buy some gifts for poor people or for people who are working under you to make their diwali also special and full of sweetness.

4 remove darkness to bring light in our life.
The Festival of Lights also signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance. It is the celebration of the inner light of higher knowledge dispelling all ignorance, the ignorance that as though veils one's true nature, not as the body-mind-sense complex, but as the unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent Reality.

Goddess Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, is the principle deity associated with this festival. During Diwali we ask her for assistance in cultivating and accumulating spiritual wealth, such as compassion, forgiveness, and loving-kindness.

Astrological Symbology

Symbology, there is a lot of sybbology,

Ravaana is like Saturn and defeated by Hanuman (reincarnation of Mars)

Raam is like a sun and Sita is like a moon, and lured out of circle for the tenderness and love to provide for beggers

 Sun is in lower dignity, Moon is lowest dignity going into scoepio. A little bit …trial by fire

 Gossip in the kingdom and her chastity and whether she was pure. She was required to go through agni prikisha and go through fire and come out pure, and still there is gossip and she was requested to go to exile. While she ws in exile, she gave birth to Lav and ush

Prone to everybody’s voice, is everybody okay, and we are taking consensus , and in libra it gets dispersed. He did not stand up for Sita. It shows inner conflict in our life, people are saying something about your loved ones and we see the trials going on.

She passed the trials of fire, she passed, but it was not good enough. Thre is suspicious and darkness. She stayed devoted and purity. This is a very devotional sign. Saturn is king here in swati and it is ruled by Vayu, and Mars is in the one who can defeat Raavna.