Enlightening Your True Self !

                Diwali is a festival of lights, the festival regarding the victory of lightness over darkness, the victory of good over evil, the victory of happy times over the sad ones. People celebrate this festival in the remembrance of the arrival of Lord Rama to Ayodhya after an exile of 14 years. They lit up their homes with auspicious diyas bringing in the good luck and pure bliss. Children enjoy themselves with the crackers and fireworks that adds rejoice in their playfulness times. That’s what the festivals are all about. People try to forget all the sorrows and get indulge in the divine holiness of the festivities. But is that enough? Is that enough to just be happy in the festivals by buying new clothes and all new stuff?

                The real beauty, the real happiness lies in making others happy. 

Then and then you fell contented. We do celebrate it with lighting up our homes, bursting the crackers and having the sweetest delicacies all over this festival, but what god wants to convey through this divine festival. It’s not only about having well times meeting up the relatives and friends, firing the crackers or just grabbing those saccharine  sweets. 

This festival is about illuminating your true self, bringing out the best from you, broadening your visions, imagining the non-imaginable and more than that lending a helping hand to someone needy and someone who really craves for something.  

A help can be of any form, it doesn’t confined to any kind of limits. It can be solving your friends’ problems, it can be giving grains to the birds, welcoming your new neighbor, or it can be giving food to the poor or it can be giving an innocent smile to a stranger. A sweet generous smile to someone you don’t know is also a kind of help. It makes them feel good and makes you feel happy within your soul.

                Let me share an incident that happened to me. I was at the Passport Office for my sister’s application; there I came to meet one uncle. I didn’t know him and I saw him the very first time. He was kind-hearted and you can make it from his behavior that he was a good man. I was in the queue and he was standing right behind me. He generously asked me about the procedure and the documents he has to enclose with the application. I replied and helped him just holding his belongings for some time and arranging the documents in the file. After all done he very kindly said “thank you” with a big-hearted smile on his face. It was something not expressible. In fact I felt happy when he said those words.  It might be not a big thing for many of you but I want to say, help someone once in anything. You’ll feel happy deep from your heart.

                On ending note, I would like to say that do something good for someone. Just try it once, you’ll feel affluent with happiness, richly by the good times. That’s what god wants to convey, enlighten up your true self, that’s what Diwali is all about. I would like to share a quote which I read in newspaper by “Herbert Read”: 

“There are lights everywhere except in the minds of men.” 

This really moved me and made me write this article. There should be lightness from our inner self and that can be brought by “giving”. Give as much as you can, share your thoughts, share your feelings, and share your love. The world really needs love. So a happy note on this lighting festival: 

May this Diwali bring the light in your life filled with pure bliss and May this New Year enlightens you deep from the heart & brings out the best from you every time. Wishing you all a Blissful Diwali and a Prosperous New Year.