November 12, 2012
Happy Divali to Our Friends of a Hindu Faith as well as a Sikh Community in Malaysia as well as Around a World
My wife, Dr. Kamsiah as well as I instruct a friends as well as associates of a Hindu Faith as well as a Sikh community in Malaysia as well as around a world a Happy, Peaceful as well as Prosperous Divali, that falls tomorrow, Nov 13, 2012.
We have been grateful for your await as well as interest in what you move to you upon this blog. We instruct to foster receptive discourse as well as mutual bargain in between people of opposite cultures, religions as well as domestic affiliations.
Since this blog appeared a little 5 years ago, you have done a lot of friends as well as a little challenging adversaries. We have a differences, though so far, you have been able to keep a exchanges at a really decent, positive as well as helpful level. We schooled a lot from a interactions with you in cyberspace.
Day by day, it has turn clear to Dr. Kamsiah as well as I that there have been no correct answers or solutions to a problems as well as hurdles that confront us all. But with patience as well as mutual understanding, you shall overcome in a quest for pacific co-existence, if you keep thinking, looking, listening as well as feeling.
We apply oneself your Faith since it is a single of a good religions well known to humanity. Let us remind ourselves of a stress of Diwali as distinguished in India, Malaysia as well as elsewhere.Dr. Kamsiah as well as Din Merican
The Signifi! cance of Diwali
Compiled by Annemarie
"The Diwali or Deepavali legal holiday outlines a feat of good over evil. The Sanskrit word "Deepavali" equates to "an array of lights" as well as signifies a feat of brightness over darkness. As a hold of Sanskrit diminished, a name was popularly modified to Diwali, generally in northern India.
On Diwali, a goddess Laxmi, a symbol of prosperity, is worshipped. People wear brand brand brand new clothes, share candy as well as light firecrackers. The North Indian commercial operation community usually starts their financial brand brand brand new year upon Diwali as well as brand brand brand new comment books have been non-stop upon this day.
Hindus find cause to applaud this legal holiday for opposite reasons. In a North, Diwali celebrates a return of Lord Rama, King of Ayodhya, with his wife Sita as well as hermit Lakshmana from a 14-year exile as well as a war in that he vanquished a devil aristocrat Ravana.
It is believed that a people illuminated oil lamps all along a way to light a royal family's trail in a darkness. In North India, a legal holiday is held upon "Amavasya" (or "moonless night"), a final day of a Vikram calendar. The following day outlines a commencement of a North Indian New Year.
In South India, Diwali legal holiday mostly commemorates a subduing of a Asura Naraka, a powerful aristocrat of Assam, who imprisoned tens of thousands of inhabitants. It was Krishna who finally resigned Naraka as well as liberated a prisoners. It is distinguished in a Tamil month of aipasi (thula month) 'naraka chaturdasi' thithi, preceding amavasai.
The preparations begin a day before, when a oven is cleaned, smeared with lime, four or 5 kumkum dots have been applied, as well as a! fterward s it is filled with H2O for a next day's oil bath. The house is cleared as well as decorated with kolam (rangoli) patterns with kavi (red oxide). In a pooja room, betel leaves, betel nuts, plaintain fruits, flowers, sandal paste, kumkum, gingelly oil, turmeric powder, scented powder have been kept. Crackers as well as brand brand brand new dresses have been placed in a image after smearing a little kumkum or sandal paste.
In a north, many communities comply a law of lighting lamps. However, in a south, a law of lighting baked earthen lamps is not so many partial of this legal holiday as it is of a Karthikai celebrations a fortnight later. The lights signify a acquire to wealth in a form of Lakshmi, as well as a fireworks have been ostensible to shock away immorality spirits.
Deepavali celebrations in south India begin early in a morning. The eldest family member applies sesame oil upon a heads of all a family members. Then, it's off for a bath, commencement with a youngest in a family. 
They arise with brand brand brand new clothes as well as a look of anticipation at a thought of bursting crackers, that symbolizes a murdering of a devil aristocrat Narakasur.
Lehiyan: But prior to that comes Lehiyan, a bitter concoction, to clean a system of its festive over-eating! Then to a crackers.
Murukku: A puja is performed for a family deities in a morning. Breakfast consists of murukku , a honeyed dish and, of course, idli or dosa.
Wish fulfilment: Some communities hold that when Narakasur was to be killed, Lord Krishna asked him his final wish. Narakasura replied that he wanted to suffer a final day of his hold up in a grand demeanour as well as Diwali was celebrated. That was a commencement as well as a use continued.
In a evening, lamps have been aflame as well as crackers have been burst. As many of a cracker manufacturing units have been in Tamil Nadu, there is no ! default of fireworks here."
source:http://www.auroville.org/society/diwali.htm
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