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Diwali Explained Diwali also known as Deepavali and the "festival of lights", is an ancient Hindu festival celebrated in autumn every year. The festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair.
Below is the festival explained for the uninitiated:
"Nava-ratri" literally
means "nine nights." This festival is observed twice a year, once in
the beginning of summer and again at the onset of winter.
What's the Significance
of Navratri?
During Navaratri, we invoke the energy aspect
of God in the form of the universal mother, commonly referred to as " Durga ," which literally means the
remover of miseries of life. She is also referred to as "Devi" (goddess)
or "Shakti" (energy or power). It is this energy, which helps God to
proceed with the work of creation, preservation and destruction. In other
words, you can say that God is motionless, absolutely changeless, and the
Divine Mother Durga, does everything. Truly speaking, our worship of Shakti
re-confirms the scientific theory that energy is imperishable. It cannot be
created or destroyed. It is always there.
Why Worship the Mother
Goddess?
We
think this energy is only a form of the Divine Mother, who is the mother of
all, and all of us are her children. "Why mother; why not father?",
you may ask. Let me just say that we believe that God's glory, his cosmic
energy, his greatness and supremacy can best be depicted as the motherhood aspect
of God. Just as a child finds all these qualities in his or her mother,
similarly, all of us look upon God as mother. In fact, Hinduism is the only
religion in the world, which gives so much importance to the mother aspect of
God because we believe that mother is the creative aspect of the absolute.
