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| Dip Darshan |
Our Aryan civilization and culture
has also accepted Dip Darshan as a religious
symbol. It occupies a special place in Hindu
homes and temples even in today's scientific
age where electricity plays an important role
in everything we do. The tradition of offering
prayers every morning and evening by lighting
diya is in existence even today. The originator
of Vedas has accepted 'dip' or diya as supreme
being and tells us to perform his puja.
This seemingly small dip gives a big message
to us. Passion, anger, avarice, charm, pride,
envy, etc. have all taken hold of us by spreading
darkness of ignorance in our lives. We have
to remove this darkness from within us and
fill it with knowledge and wisdom giving light
to brighten our lives. It takes us on the
path of progress. Where there is knowledge
and wisdom there is God's showering of good
will. Everybody experiences good things here.
Their health improves and society also prospers
with the increase of wealth of individuals.
Our forefathers have given importance to Dip
Darshan. There is a deep understanding of
gratefulness in it. The small dip, which is
burning in ghee, reminds us of 'atma-jyoti',
which is existing within us. It is on this
basis that our rishis and munis dived within
and spread the wisdom of light, which they
got from the divine storehouse residing in
themselves. And so the tradition of meditating
by lighting a diya started in our society.
The electric bulb distracts us from meditating
and prayers and so becomes a source of restlessness.
May be that that is the reason why it is more
convenient for us to pray by switching off
the electric bulb.
The small diya of ghee also gives us another
message. It burns itself but gives light to
others. Our rishis and munis and saints have
also sacrificed their lives and have kept
the ideal of welfare of the people before
them and thus they have spread light in the
world. We get this inspiration also from this
seemingly small diya. This diya has the capacity
of lighting another diya from it. Not only
that, it can light thousands of diyas. The
electric bulb does not have such a capability.
In this way this small diya inspires us to
remove darkness and bring light and happiness
in our lives. It also teaches us to spread
this light and knowledge to others. So we
would have learnt a lot if we only learn to
take the message of light from this small
diya and improve our society - light it with
good deeds like a light! |
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