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Title: DIVALI


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DIVALI
The Festival of Light
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Introduction
  • The festival of Divali (or Deepawali, Deepavali
    or Diwali) is known as the Festival of Light.
    Hindus celebrate it all over the world. The true
    definition of Divali can be expressed as being to
    bring light where darkness prevails, truth where
    untruth prevails, to bring life where death
    prevails, to brighten our surroundings and to
    illumine our minds. Divali ,Festival of Light, is
    has this name because in Sanskrit means "row of
    lighted lamps.

This is the most sacred symbol Hindu dharma. Aum
(OM) is the sound of the infinite.
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When Is It Celebrated?
  • Divali is celebrated on the new moon of Kartik
    every year in the Hindu calendar. By the English
    Calendar Divali occurs over a period that covers
    the last week of October to the first week of
    November. This is the holy month and is a
    beautiful fortnight with it being the darkest
    night of the year and people are outside lighting
    lamps.

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Divalis Signification
  • The Hindu festival signifies the triumph of light
    over darkness, good over evil, justice over
    injustice and intelligence over ignorance. The
    goddess worshipped at this festival is Mother
    Lakshmi or Lakshmi Mata. Lakshmi Mata is the
    goddess of light, wealth and beauty and is linked
    with prosperity, luck, wealth, well being and
    generosity. In her statues, Lakshmi Mata is
    wearing a gold and lotus flowers either sitting
    on a lotus, standing on a lotus, wearing lotus
    blossoms in her hair and on her gown or holding a
    lotus blossom.

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Activities
  • During the Hindu holiday, they thoroughly cleanse
    their homes, wash their feet, buy new merchandise
    and clothes, prepare themselves for the worship
    of Mother Lakshmi, the Goddess of Light. Hindus
    decorate the house with colours and flags which
    have significant colours. They also light plenty
    of lamps to signify her importance.

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Pooja
  • A Pooja is worship to the Deities of Hindus in
    prayer, offerings and sacrifices. During a Pooja
    offerings are made into a fire which is the
    actual feeding of God. They give offerings to
    Ganesh, The Divine Mother, Shiva, the Nine
    Planets, Kalsa and Mother Lakshmi. When the Pooja
    starts they have to give the Deity a place to sit
    and decorate it, wash their feet and offer food
    items to the Gods. There are also flags with
    significant colours and is used to symbolise the
    offerings. The not only celebrate light but song,
    chanting, bell ringing and food tasting. Most
    Poojas occur early in the morning and sometimes
    as early as 3 oclock. It is also symbolic that
    they face east (facing the sun) while performing
    the Pooja.

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Food
  • When the guests of the family are invited after 6
    oclock they can then all enjoy the delightful
    food but no tasting occurs before it is offered
    to Maha Lakshmi by placing it next to the picture
    of statue of the Goddess. It is the mixed and
    placed into the fire. After the offering they can
    eat the vegetarian dishes. Roti is the most
    popular of the delicacies and is a light sandwich
    like a pita bread wrapped around a curry-based
    filling of vegetables. There are other delicious
    food that is to be eaten which includes the
    paratha whish is a silky type of pita bread, the
    sada, a solid type and a dhalpurie which is a
    soft type of pita bread stuffed with split peas.

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Dessert
  • For dessert they would eat khurma, a sweet hard
    stick, goolab jamoon which is a sweet soft stick,
    barfi and parsad, a sweet grainy flour-based
    cereal, which is presented as a bag of sweets and
    is given as a symbol of goodwill. Sweet
    rice/kheer, rice and milk pudding, which is eaten
    straight after the meal and as a tradition it is
    placed into the same plate since the curry adds
    flavour to the sweet rice.

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THE END
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  • JAMES CHAU
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