User talk:Sumeet Utekar

Let's lighten up our hearts in this Diwali
Different people have different perceptions about festivals, someone takes it as mere holiday, for someone it's a break from daily routines and schedules, for someone it's a sleeping day, somebody just enjoys the special feast of festival, some are happy by meeting with relatives after long duration etc. Especially Diwali is everyone's favourite due to its long vacations, delicious food items and lightening of surroundings with fancy lanterns and fire crackers.

This lightening of lamps during Diwali is of course a holy ritual but apart from that it gives a significant message and that is, to introspect our dark heart and lighten it with lamp of transcendental knowledge. Jealousy, hatred, envy, arrogance, lust, greed etc these are some symptoms of dark heart and everyone of us has dark side of heart. Where can one avail this knowledge which can eradicate this darkness? Which school or college teaches about that? This knowledge is not a syllabus of ordinary books but It's given in only our scriptures like Gita and Bhagavatam and can be received by the grace of God and genuine spiritualists. Peculiarity of this knowledge is its revealed into the heart of the student so an illiterate can also avail the benefits.

The glories of our scripture is that they focus more into our heart than out side surrounding, Gita although spoken on battlefield, Lord didn't mentioned anything about martial arts or fighting techniques but it was all about how to fight inner war with our bad conditionings. Bhagavad Gita compare transcendental knowledge to, the Sun, a boat and blazing fire(BG Ch 4). Just like Sun dissipates the darkness, this knowledge dissipates the darkness of ignorance similarly just like a boat helps one to cross over the river this knowledge can help us to cross over the river of birth and death and just like fire turns wood into ashes this knowledge burns all sins.

This transcendental knowledge acquiring process is very easy for devotees, those who are lovingly serving God invokes the compassion of lord sooner. Krishna says in Gita(BG10.11),“To show them special mercy, I, dwelling in their hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance.” In conclusion during festivals we are concerned about cleanliness and lightening of home so that it will look attractive to ourselves and to the guests, similarly we need to work on the cleanliness and lightening of our polluted and dark heart not with the electrical bulbs but with powerful holy names of God, thus it will look attractive to supreme guest, the God!!

Article by Rupesh Gauranga Dasa www.rupeshgauranga.blogspot.com

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