Diwali or Deepavali is popularly known as the “festival of lights”. Diwali signifies the ultimate victory of good over evil, knowledge over ignorance …or…light over darkness. However, the most significant spiritual meaning is “the awareness of the inner light”.
Central to Hindu philosophy is the assertion that there is something beyond the physical body and mind which is pure, infinite, and eternal. Just as we celebrate the birth of our physical being, Diwali is the celebration of this inner light, in particular the knowing of which outshines all darkness (removes all obstacles and dispels all ignorance), awakening the individual to one’s true nature, not as the body, but as the unchanging, infinite, immanent and transcendent reality.
Diwali is one of the biggest festival of Hindus, celebrated with great enthusiasm and happiness in India. The festival is celebrated for five continuous days, where the third day is celebrated as the main Diwali festival or ‘Festival of lights’. Different colorful varieties of fireworks are always associated with this festival. On this auspicious day, people light up candles all around their house. Diwali also marks the end of the harvest season in most of India. Farmers give thanks for the bounty of the year gone by, and pray for a good harvest for the year to come. Traditionally this marked the closing of accounts for businesses dependent on the agrarian cycle, and is the last major celebration before winter. 
People perform Lakshmi Puja in the evening and seek divine blessings of this magnificent Goddess of Abundance, by keeping the doors of their house open and candles lit all night to welcome the Goddess Lakshmi so she may come and bless everyone. Lakshmi symbolizes abundance of knowledge, spirit, beauty and wealth, and her blessings are invoked for a good year ahead. While the story behind Diwali and manner of celebration varies from region to region (festive fireworks, worship, lights, sharing of sweets), the essence is the same – to rejoice in the Inner Light, or the underlying reality of all things. The festival of Diwali is never complete without exchange of gifts. People present diwali gifts to all near and dear ones.
Happy Diwali!
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