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Different moods of the Indian earthen lamps or 'Diyas' during Diwali- the festival of lights

My odd fixation with earthen lamps, diyas, continues..

I guess I am on overdrive because today, Diwali ended :)

 

Hope the remaining year goes well too!

Seasons' greetings to everyone :)

I seriously had no clue what to do for this week for the "Life / Death, Entropy / Renewal". Going with my own theme "Light". I shot this one at Tawakkal Mastan Shah Dargah / Mosque in Cottonpet, Bangalore. This dargah / mosque has a very important place in the Bangalore Karaga Festival (to be held today April 24 2013).

 

More details

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore_Karaga

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawakkal_Mastan_Vali

Ye Samaa Samaa Hai Ye Roshni ki, Bahut sari khushiyon ki

It was kartik purnima yesterday. A full moon. The ancient shiva temple near my house at pune, India was illuminated with thousands of earthen lamps. On this day thousands of devotees throng here and they light their lamps all around the temple. It is a delight to see thousands of lamps lit. Kartik poornima falls in the month of November-december. This sacred day is also called the ‘dev deepawali’ or the deepawali of gods. At this day earthen lamps are lit to mark the destruction of the demon Tripura by god shiva and signifies the victory of goodness over evil.

four earthen lamps(diya) on diwali

An earthen lamp is the best example to human being to bring peace and prosperity on the Earth ,as it burns at it its max to glow the things on its top in a believe that some reflection will come back surely to illuminate its underneath.

 

Traditional Lamp Holders

It was kartik purnima yesterday. A full moon. The ancient shiva temple near my house at pune, India was illuminated with thousands of earthen lamps. On this day thousands of devotees throng here and they light their lamps all around the temple. It is a delight to see thousands of lamps lit. Kartik poornima falls in the month of November-december. This sacred day is also called the ‘dev deepawali’ or the deepawali of gods. At this day earthen lamps are lit to mark the destruction of the demon Tripura by god shiva and signifies the victory of goodness over evil.

This young guy was doing something else very attentively on his own when I was trying to take a photo of him through the window.He instantly brought out his toy camera from under the table and playfully started mimicking me upon noticing my act. Photo taken at a nunnery near Thimphu, Bhutan.

 

December 2018.

Diwali is an Indian festival of lights celebrated every year in the season of Autumn. It signifies the victory of good over evil, light over darkness, hope over despair or knowledge over ignorance. People decorate their homes with lights, earthen lamps or candles.

These kids(siblings) has decorated their house with their unique art works...and here they shows off their days piece...

Photographed during Diwali.

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Sandhya aarti at Shiva's temple in Saugar, MP. Loved the texture and feel of the temple

This is actually a painted earthen lamp. Usually used during diwali but this can also be used as candle holdr or tealight holder

Symbol of hope , care and compassion

Each of us have positive and negative traits. We try to hide the negatives from the world and display only th epositive traits. But a better way would be to work on the negative traits so that it does not remains a negative..

 

This was an earthen lamp from the diwali night (indian festival), and I noticed that how dark it was just beneath the lamp.

Through the darkness

Diwali is the festival if lights. Took these pictures while preparing for the festivities. Aren't these earthen lamps adorable?

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