Diwali is the Festival of Lights. The streets and buildings are lit up with colourful lights.
The four aspects of Diwali are:
- Lights – symbolizing the spreading of Knowledge
- Firecrackers – Watching the firecrackers gives a relief to the explosive tendencies inside. When the explosion happens outside, the explosion inside is diffused.
- Gifts and sweets – Sharing gifts and distributing sweets dispels bitterness and renews friendships.
- Abundance – Feeling a sense of abundance brings awareness and gratefulness for what one has Celebrate the Knowledge and feel the abundance. Those who have will be given more!
Human life is a combination of body (or matter), and spirit (or vibration). Joy is becoming intense vibration and forgetting that you are matter.
Carnal instincts can make you momentarily feel intense vibrations. That is how they give you a glimpse of joy. But such joy is short-lived, and it makes you dense later on.
Pleasure that comes from satsangis of a higher nature. Mantras and singing create vibrations in the spirit. That is why when you sing, ecstasy continues for a long time.
Pleasure in the subtle is long-lasting, energizing, refreshing and freeing. Pleasure from the gross is short-lived, tiring and binding.
-Written by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Courtesy: The Free Press Journal
