Diwali – The Deeper Significance of the Celebration & Your Life

Diwali: The significance of the celebration

Diwali is just knocking on the door, and I have been very busy this week. Before going on vacation, I had to take care of my business, and it is exhausting for everyone who makes all of my companies run. I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to all my employees, as well as to our internal and external stakeholders, through this post.

 Diwali is about Maa Kali and her various tantrik forms, whom we worship all night on that day. Although the celebration is taking place all over India, people are cracking firecrackers, distributing sweets, and lighting their homes with lamps. This is one of the most common spiritual worship that every corner of India (Bharat) celebrates.

 However, Tantra has a very different take on Maa Kali and Diwali. Due to higher energy during this day, Sadhanas and Pujas of various kinds are done on this auspicious day, utilizing the upliftment of higher consciousness due to planetary alignment.

 Spiritual aspirants of the highest label know this for so long that if you wish to invoke the energy of the divine feminine, then Maa Kali is the first one to start. Even if you do the sadhana of Das Mahavidyas (10 primary energy forms of the divine feminine), you have to start with Maa Kali only.

 If you see the picture of Maa Kali, it is mesmerizingly fearful and evokes respect in our minds at the same time. The origin of Maa Kali dates back to the upper northern parts of India, and worshiping this form of the mother divine is a prime destiny one can have. She destroys your karmic imprints gathered from your past lives, and only a courageous seeker holds the will to walk on the path Mother paves for him/her. It is indeed quite challenging, but the results are astonishing, I can say from my own experience. That crystal-clear consciousness, where creativity meets the highest form of concentration and newly channeled courage, is something extraordinary. Being a spiritual seeker myself for so long, I can straight away say that a high level of creativity from sadhana helps in your professional life like no other thing. How do you feel when you outsmart people in business, knowing what can work or what not? Damn, rewarding ya!!

Firing crackers is just a symbol of lighting the inner self from darkness. It stands for the fact that the wheel of destiny is binary in nature (0 is positive and 1 is negative if I may define the meaning in this context). You achieve excellent things or luck at good times, and after a while, you feel negative because some stuff didn’t go well with you; the circle of life is funny. Isn’t it?

Although I recommend lighting a lamp of ghee in your Puja alter (place of worship). it enhances the fire elements and aggravates ether (one of the elements in tantra) in your home, thus consecrating your home with positivity. This is emerging directly from ‘Bhuta Shuddhi’ in ancient Vedic practices. I shall write about this tantric practice at some other time. You can read this post though.

So go and enjoy this celebration, as neither this day nor this year will revisit soon before next year. If possible, donate to needy people, feed stray cats and dogs, or perhaps a charity. Whatever is best possible as Mother Divine is not an entity to take but to give in abundance.

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Deb Om Malya

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