Happy Diwali!

Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!

Namaste!

Today, November 5th, is the Deepavali celebration (festival of lights). There are several articles on the website of Sivananda Ashram/Divine Life Society on the significance of Deepavali. They
are:

1) Deepavali by Sri Swami Sivananda


2) The Significance of Dipavali by Sri Swami Chidananda


3) Dipavali-The Festival of Lights by Sri Swami Krishnananda


We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone on this list a very Happy Deepavali.

Yours in the service of Gurudev,

Pannirselvam

(from a Newsletter by the Divine Live Society)

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"Dipavali is a festival of lights, is a celebration of the rise of knowledge, and also the celebration of the victory of the sattvic, divine elements in us over the rajasic and tamasic and baser elements which are the real asuras - which are the rakshasas, this Narakasura, etc. The whole world is within us. The whole cosmos can be found in a microscopic form in our own bodies. Ram-Ravan yudh and Narakasura - everything is going on inside us. Dipavali is thus also a psychological context wherein we contemplate in our own selves the holy occasion of self-mastery, self- subjugation, self-abnegation, and all those spiritual virtues which are regarded as lustre, as it were, radiance, as it were, emanating from Self-knowledge."
- Swami Krishnananda

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