We have been celebrating this festival since time immemorial, but have been we able to imbibe the spirit associated with the feast? Though lighting some lamps and candles can conquer the darkness in one’s house, but can this purge the darkness from his life? Maybe not!
A Rikshaw-puller celebrating Diwali
Indeed, if observed profoundly, every festival that is celebrated in India has certain social reasons and philosophical grounds behind their origination. Beliefs, customs and traditions, established by our ancestors had their ideological and practical significance for each and every legend and mythology. But being brutally honest with changing times, these rituals and festivals lost their actual meaning sinking in the quagmire of pretensions and pompous shows of metaphors.
There are many underprivileged destitute in our society for whom this light means nothing. We must try to fill happiness and joy in their distressed lives. To illumine the sense of service to humanity in our hearts can make the actual significance of this festival.
Let us remember that what some of us spend on that one night would keep a family going for a year. It does not matter if you cannot touch the lives of many on that one day, but let us do something to touch the life of one person through the year, to make him or her a responsible and educated citizen . It maybe like a drop in the ocean – but isn’t the ocean made up of a lot of drops?
touching .