Beware! You Are Celebrating Diwali The Wrong Way

Our Diwali has NO connection with Ram, it has connection with sales, bumper offers and crackers. Our Diwali is cultural festival and not a spiritual festival.

 

 Diwali, the festival of lights, holds a special place in the hearts of millions in India. It's a time of joy, togetherness, and celebrations. However, as the years go by, one can't help but wonder if Diwali has gradually transformed into more of a cultural extravaganza than a spiritual reverence. In this blog, we'll delve into the heart of this transformation and examine the roots of this cultural shift and how to really celebrate Diwali. Read this blog if you are  “Sanatani”. Even if you don’t consider Ram as “God”, consider him as a “Mahapurush” or great man.

 

 

 

Let’s understand the history of Diwali first .Diwali, also known as Deepavali, is often associated with the return of Lord Ram to Ayodhya after a long and arduous exile of 14 years. So the day he returned is day of  Diwali but today it has just become a cultural festival rather than being a spiritual festival.

 

Diwali is more than just a festival; it's a time of spiritual practice and discipline. Unfortunately, many people miss the essence of Diwali by focusing solely on external celebrations. They indulge in various materialistic activities and neglect the spiritual significance that underlies the festival.

 

In today's world, many celebrate festivals like Diwali for their bodily comforts and the enjoyment of the senses. However, the true purpose of these festivals is to elevate the human spirit beyond mere material indulgence. These celebrations often turn into a superficial show, where people momentarily pretend to follow Ram's ideals.

 

Father of Ram ordered Ram to leave the vast Empire and he  left happily. Even if Ram said no, his father would agree and he would really very happy. His father Had to order him just because of vow which he gave to his wife. We are not delving into Ramayan here. Ram left empire without  arguing. Even he was happy to go and when he returned he didn’t even scolded “Kaikai” the mother Due to whom Ram had to live in the forest for “14 years”. Ram’s life is full of hardships and struggles if we look at it. But you do not know about life of Ram, because you never read scriptures. You never read Ramcharitmanas or Yoga Vashishtha or Valmiki Ramayana. You just know the Ramayan of TV and there is a great difference between Ramayana of television and Ramayan of scriptures. Diwali is the festival of Sadhana and Tapasya. But no one does sadhana and Tapasya. Everyone likes to do enjoyment . You do not know about Ram and still you celebrate Diwali. Just go to jungle and live there for 14 days o and then you will start respecting Ram. It will be really impossible for you to live even for 14 days in the jungle and Ram lived for 14 years. He didn’t even had slippers. He walked bare foot on the ground. Even when he became the king, his life still was full of struggles and  whole life he practiced  sacrifice or “tyaga”. And it really surprises me when I see that we celebrate our festivals even for our bodily comforts. But the festivals are actually made to take us beyond the bodily comforts. The whole year we do various heinous activities(eating meat,speaking lie,fighting etc), but for one day we pretend to celebrate Rams ideals. How dare we celebrate Diwali. What Ram has taught us, we never followed it. It really surprises me when people are so happy on the Diwali,  you have forgot the ideals of Ram for 364 days and on one day You are becoming a great devotee of Ram.  Is it respect or betrayal to RAM?. Ram left his entire empire and we cant even leave small petty materialisic things. Ram won from Ravana and we can’t even win from our senses. But Ram what Ram has taught us, we never follow it. We just want to celebrate a cultural festival for our own sense enjoyment and not a spiritual festival meant for the devotion to Lord Ram. Just see the man/woman who is burning crackers and celebrating Diwali. Compare his/her character with the character of Ram. Ram was fearless. He was not having enough army, but still he was fearless while fighting with Ravana. And Ravan He even defeated great demigods. Ram was just having the army of “Vanaras” but still he defeated Ravana just because of his courage, fearlessness and faith in God. See the character of Ram with the person who is just burning crackers. Ram means Truth.

 

These people say that we are “Sanatani”a. Actually, you are not. There are 110 crore people in India who proclaim themselves as Sanatani,  They are just ritualistic and superstitious people. You celebrate cultural Diwali and not spiritual Diwali, I again repeat. Ram did not want anything in his life. He was desireless. Why not you leave your bad habits. Why not you stop sleeping for 10 hours? Why don’t you stop Harming Others And why don’t you stop eating meat?  Majority of so called Sanatanis eat meat. Which is against the scriptures. obviously, if you come from the Aghori culture or from specific Tantra traditions(By Tantra I don’t mean black magic). For you it is allowed, but for others  it is not allowed. Let’s celebrate Diwali as a festival of sacrifice(by sacrifice I mean tyaga kind of detachment or reunication).

 

 

We worship Lakshmi and Ganesh on Diwali instead of Ram. We should worship Ram, Sita and Lakshman on this day, but we worship Lakshmi and Ganesh instead. Why do people worship Lakshmi? Because she is referred as the “Goddess of  wealth” and it is the greatest misconception ever. People think that Lakshmi is the giver of wealth or material prosperity. But it’s wrong. She is the giver of spiritual wealth. She is the giver of bhakti. She is the giver of divine knowledge. But you do not understand it because you never attended spiritual discourses. You just attended religious discourses by some  False Guru. You never read the Scriptures. Goddess is not going to give you some materialistic thing. She is always going to give you spiritual thing. And remember this as  great sages mentioned if you worship Lakshmi without Narayan. Then there is going to be a destruction. When you worship Lakshmi alone, she comes to you in the form of Maya or illusion(illusion is not appropriate word but due to lack of words in English vocabulary we use it). But when you worship Lakshmi with Narayan She will give you the spiritual knowledge and Bhakti. And you will surely grow in your life. But we just want materialistic things. So what can I do?

We say that we celebrate Diwali for Lord Ram, but actually no one cares about Ram. While you are shopping for Diwali, Is Lord Ram in your mind? No. Absolutely not. Just because we want enjoy . But to enjoy in the name of religion is more good because it seems godly. All the heinous activities in the name of religion seems good, but they are actually not. We just take the name of Ram and do the works of Ravana. We don’t have even 1% of RAM in our character but still we will go and burst crackers. We just want to fulfil our own desires in the name of religion. That is what people have been doing since ages. RAM. Who always sacrificed Things in his life For his festival, we are bringing various materialistic things in our home. Isn’t that foolishness. Ram, who is the whole life practiced non attachment. On his day we are eating Kaju Katli. Isn’t it  foolishness? And I am not saying these things on my own will. These are the things which I have learned in scriptures and from the great devotees of Lord.

 The Diwali which you worship and the Diwali which people of Ayodhya worshipped As per Ramcharitmanas is really different. People are having the money to buy various. Jewelleries and Other materialistic things, but they are not having the money to purchase Ram Charit Manas.

 

 

When Ram came back to Ayodhya, no firecrackers were burnt. And please tell what spiritual meaning is contained in crackers? So my dear foolish people, respect the order of court and government. Crackers were never a part of Diwali. We just added these for our own personal enjoyment in the name of religion because again  everything in the name of religion  seems godly. And I’m greatly surprised to see that people are going against the order of Supreme Court. They are saying that Supreme Court is against our religion. But I want to tell you that you do not follow the Sanatan. Ou haven’t read Gita or Vedanta.  There were no firecrackers mentioned in Ramcharitmanas. And they are causing pollution too, And Diwali comes in a time when there is already a lot of pollution in the air I am not going into all that stuff. So crackers contribute to more in pollution?. And the people who have respiratory problems suffer most. I am myself having a respiratory disease so I know how it feels. I am also not against anything but I am just telling what scripture say. You never follow scriptures, you  just want to burn crackers  for your personal enjoyment. But nothing will happen by burning crackers. Ram is not going to become happy. Ram will become happy when you will love Him, when you will gain his virtues when you will Lead life which he lived.

 

 

 

Now I will tell you the correct method of celebrating Diwali. just remember Ram the whole day. Read Ram Charitmanas or Valmiki Ramayana or Yoga Vishishtha  and try to inculcate the values of Ram in your personality. Celebrate Diwali of Ram and not of the world. Try to understand Ram, glorify him, worship him. And don’t be afraid to stand alone by celebrating Diwali this way. If you are materialistic, do the Diwali as you are doing. But if you are  a serious spiritual aspirant, do the Diwali which I told and it is not a Diwali which is invented by me, it is invented by great devotees of Ram as I have read in the books and as I have Heard in the Satsang(spiritual discourses). If you celebrate Diwali this way, every day will become a Diwali for you. Great devotees of Lord and  don’t celebrate Diwali as you do.

 

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