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While Diwali is popularly known as the "festival of lights", the most significant esoteric 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.
Diwali celebrates this through festive fireworks, lights, flowers, sharing sweets, and worship. While the story behind Diwali varies from region to region, the essence is the same - to rejoice in the Inner Light.
adapted from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali
The festival of lights, Diwali, we love it for the lights, sweets and the pollution that it brings us. The good thing about the pollution that we create is all the mosquitoes that we were fighting against, the ones that might be related to ones that brought a bout of Dengue, Malaria and Chikungunya, more than half of the population of Delhi was down with viral. Oh! what a booming business it was for medical practitioners and pharma companies, with the reckless prescription and consumption of antibiotics. But even in the darkness there is this light and that is why Diwali and the associated festivities are so very significant here.
Diwali is a popular festival in INDIA.
Though it is called as festival of lights it is widely celebrated bursting crackers.
The third day in on Diwali, and the roads of Kathmandu lights up.
Small lamps and candles decorates doors and windows, seemingly welcoming everyone through even the narrowest alleys.
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