Sai Inspires from Prasanthi Nilayam November 10, 2015

What is the significance of the celebration of Deepavali, the Festival of Lights?

Bhagawan lovingly explains to us today.
From this day onwards, you must win over everyone
through love and compassion. Nara (man) falls
intoNaraka (hell), through over-indulgence. Senses
generally run wild and like raging floods, spell
destruction. The festival of Deepavali is to express
gratitude at the defeat of the
demonic (Naraka)tendencies in humans, which drag
them down from Divinity. Naraka is the name for hell,
and the demon whose death at the hands of Krishna
is celebrated today is called Narakasura, the
personification of all the traits of character that
obstruct the upward impulses of every person. The
home (griha) where the Name of the Lord is not heard
is a cave (guha), and nothing more. As you enter it or
leave it, and while you are in it, perfume it, illumine it,
and purify it with the Lord's name. Light it as a lamp at
dusk and welcome it at dawn as you welcome the
Sun. That is the genuine Deepavali, the Festival of
Lights.
- Divine Discourse, Oct 24, 1965.

Humility can be built only on a foundation of charity and detachment. Baba

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