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Spiritual Significance of Shiv Jayanti / Maha Shivratri | Happy Shivratri Wishes | Happy Mahashivratri Wishes 

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Spiritual Significance of Shiv Jayanti / Maha Shivratri | Happy Shivratri Wishes | Happy Mahashivratri Wishes

It’s Shiv Jayanti, or Maha Shivratri. Hence today, let’s understand the meaning & significance of this greatest festival of all!

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Happy Guru Nanak Jayanti Wishes | Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s birthday | Guru Nanak Gurpurab

Happy Guru Nanak Jayanti Wishes | Guru Nanak Dev Ji's birthday | Guru Nanak Gurpurab image

Happy Guru Nanak Jayanti Wishes | Guru Nanak Dev Ji’s birthday | Guru Nanak Gurpurab

Today (Kartik Purnima) is Guru Nanak Jayanti, who was the founder of Sikhism. Hence today, let’s remember his teachings & inculcate the same in our lives, which’ll be the best tribute to him.

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Spiritual Significance of Diwali | Happy Diwali Wishes

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Diwali is the festival of lights, with everyone lighting diyas, lamps & lanterns at their homes. Hence, let’s also ignite the light of knowledge within, which dispels the darkness of sorrow & allows us to remain happy always, by reminding us that:

  • We’re originally a very pure, divine, peaceful, loving, happy soul… Hence, we don’t need to run after these virtues outside, just need to remain in this elevated self-awareness for their experience to flow through us
  • We get God’s accurate introduction i.e., He’s an Incorporeal soul, Ocean of all Virtues. This enables us to instantly connect to Him anytime, thus experience a powerful current of His pure energy & vibrations of peace love & happiness. This acts like recharging of our battery, which makes everything easy
  • Thoughts of the past fail to pull our happiness down, since we realize that every scene of this world drama is accurate (being just a return of past karma), beneficial (even if the benefit may be hidden) & nothing new

Diwali is followed by the New Year, hence it’s also the occasion of newness where we’ll purchase new things. However, since the impact of physical things on the mind is very temporary, let’s also inculcate newness in our thoughts beliefs responses & habits. Since it’s this newness which leads to a permanent benefit in the lives of us & those around us, hence truly making our new year prosperous. Indeed this new year, let’s join a new relation with the Supreme, which’ll fill us with beautiful experiences, making our entire life new & wonderful! 

Diwali is the time of celebration, when we lovingly visit each other’s homes, distribute & eat sweets, share gifts, burst firecrackers, visit the temple, get a holiday, etc. Hence,

  • To truly celebrate life, let’s emerge the attitude of gratitude, and thank each & every person & object for their invaluable role in our life. Indeed, let’s also thank challenges & situations for making us strong
  • Let’s spread sweetness through our words… By keeping in awareness others’ virtues & specialities, help & support while speaking 
  • Share the gift of good wishes with all, and forget past matters held against others
  • Like when we visit a temple, we first remove our shoes then apply tilak then worship God…. Similarly, let’s remove the influence of body-consciousness (shoes), by considering ourselves a soul (apply the tilak of self-awareness), and this soul-consciousness instantly connects us to God, filling us with His powers, hence fulfilling all our hopes & aspirations, making our life a celebration
  • Diwali is also called Shubh Diwali… Hence let’s make this holiday a holy day, where we think & listen to only pure & divine matters

We usually clean our house before worshipping Goddess Lakshmi on Diwali. Hence, let’s also clean our mind to invoke the divinity within. Indeed, let’s remove any clouds of negativity, to make the sun of virtues shine again.

The festival of Diwali follows the festivals of Navratri & Dussehra. Hence, only when we first win over the weaknesses (Ravan) within, by emerging our inner powers (Shaktis) through meditation, our life becomes a celebration (Diwali) with newness (New year) all around! 

The word diya itself means to give, hence let’s keep giving to all. Further, like the diya consists of a flame & earthen vessel, we’re also souls (flame) in this physical body (earthen vessel). Hence, when we remain in this elevated awareness & experience of our original virtues, we automatically keep giving in numerous ways:

  • An elevated state of mind automatically radiates elevated vibrations all around, leading to harmony in relations & a beautiful atmosphere around
  • What we experience inside is what we share with others. Hence when we’re experiencing our original virtues, we automatically share smiles & sweet words, encourage & appreciate, etc
  • It emerges the feeling that everyone should benefit from what I’ve received, hence making us share our spiritual knowledge, experiences & attainments with all, inspiring their elevated transformation too

By giving we get blessings from all, which helps us easily maintain an elevated stage without efforts, hence truly making life a celebration for us & everyone around.

 Although diyas are available in different colors shapes & sizes, their flame is the same. Similarly, we may be different in terms of the body (age, gender, caste, language, nationality, position, achievements, etc) but as souls we’re one (being children of the same Supreme Father, having the same original virtues of peace love & joy, sharing the same home, etc). This emerges a natural feeling of unity & closeness with all.

Many of us will create a beautiful colorful rangoli outside our homes. Similarly, let’s make our life also full of the divine colors of virtues & powers, which’ll reflect through our sparkling smiling face & elevated character, delighting all.

Conclusion (Happy Diwali Wishes)

God reveals Diwali is symbolic of the 1st day of Satyuga, where there’s the light of 100% purity & divinity all around, where each day is a festival & each moment a celebration… Hence, let us too ignite the diya of soul-consciousness within by filling ourselves with the oil of spiritual knowledge & by connecting to the ever-shining flame God, this’ll keep emerged the experience of original virtues within us always. Further, like 1 diya illuminates several other diyas around, we’ll become instrumental in transforming the lives of numerous souls around us, hence helping create Satyuga again!

Om Shanti!
 
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Let’s also understand the spiritual significance of Diwali, Holi, Raksha Bandhan, Mahashivratri, Ganesh Chaturthi, Janmashtami, Navratri, Dussehra, Gudi Padwa, Gita Jayanti, Ram Navami, Hanuman Jayanti… And Guru Purnima, Buddha Purnima, Mahavir Jayanti, Vallabhacharya Jayanti, Jalaram Jayanti

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Spiritual Significance of Dussehra | Happy Dussehra Festival (Vijayadashami)

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Every Indian festival has wonderful spiritual meanings behind it. Hence today, let’s explore the spiritual significance of the divine festival of Dussehra / Vijayadashami, which is the essence of Ramayana! 

It’s shown that Ram became victorious over Ravan on this day. And Ravan denotes vices & weaknesses, while Ram denotes purity goodness & virtues. Hence, Vijayadashami is symbolic of the victory of good over evil, the victory of original virtues over acquired sanskars.

It’s shown that Ram invoked the Shaktis before the war which helped him gain victory. Hence, it denotes emerging the powers lying hidden within us through meditation (i.e., connecting to God), by the pledge of purity, and by remaining awakened to eternal truths i.e., in the awareness of the direct spiritual knowledge being shared by God. 

It’s shown that when they would cut any one head of Ravan, it would again re-emerge. But when they attacked the seed point, all heads broke off… This denotes the fact that we don’t need to work too much on each weakness, rather when we focus directly on soul-consciousness i.e., the awareness that I’m a soul full of divine virtues, it automatically starts finishing all weaknesses (because body-consciousness is the root of all weaknesses, hence soul-consciousness automatically finishes them all!) 

We see the festival of Diwali follows the festival of Dussehra (and residents of Ayodhya are also shown lighting lamps i.e., Diwali to welcome the victorious Ram)… This signifies that life becomes a celebration every moment (Diwali), when we first win over our weaknesses (Vijayadashami!)

First, it’s very important to acknowledge the Ravan i.e., weaknesses residing within… Not to accept these uncomfortable emotions of anger hurt stress etc as natural or distract ourselves from them, but win over them with determination. 

The weapons used in becoming victorious over negative emotions are the weapons of spiritual knowledge & meditation (the bow & arrow can also be interpreted as a pure intellect & points of spiritual knowledge inculcated in it respectively!)…. Indeed, the weapons shown in the hands of deities are not to be taken literally (since deities can never be violent towards others), but are actually symbolic of these subtle weapons to become victorious over the weaknesses within! 

Ravan is shown most wealthy intelligent religious & powerful yet was defeated due to his ego greed & attachment. This illustrates that just external achievements are not enough, we also need inner virtues (& be free from vices) through Spirituality to lead a truly happy life. 

On the other hand, Ram is shown victorious inspite of having an ordinary army of monkeys because they were full of God’s love, faith & determination. These qualities help accomplish great tasks (shown as crossing the Indian Ocean with just stones, & even heavy stones starting to float). Also because the main supporters of Ram were Lakshman (Lakshya + Man i.e., the one having a clear aim in mind), Hanuman (denoting a soul completely surrendered in God’s love) & Angad (power of determination)

After becoming victorious, it’s shown they rescued Sita from (A)shok Vatika…. Hence, when we become victorious over ourself, we’re also able to save other originally pure innocent souls (Sita) from the clutches of negative emotions & vices (Ravan), thus freeing them from sorrow (shok)!

Ravan’s kingdom is shown on the golden island of Lanka, but actually the whole landmass on earth is like an island (surrounded by water)… Hence, we understand that although we’re making lot of external material progress, the whole world in under the rule of negative emotions & vices today, hence being God’s loving supporters we need to free everyone around us from negativity!

Indeed, let’s become like Hanuman, who’s shown completely pure, having One God’s love in his heart, who realises & awakens to the immense powers within by just being reminded of them, hence not only becoming victorious himself but also freeing many other souls, thus helping in God’s great task of world transformation!

Conclusion [ Happy Dussehra Festival (Vijayadashami) ]

Hence, by inculcating the weapons of spiritual knowledge and emerging inner powers through meditation, let’s become victorious over the weaknesses within, hence making the experience of our original virtues victorious always… This makes each moment of our life a celebration, each day a festival, the way life was meant to be!… And we also become instrumental in illuminating other souls around hence the entire world too in the same way, bringing the Land of Happiness Satyuga once again! 

Om Shanti!

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Happy Holi

Hello, my dear friends!

The festival of colours has come again. This Holi, let us strive to remain colored in the divine company of the Supreme Father!

His colours are the colours of purity and peace, love and happiness! Let us connect to Him directly, and fill ourselves fully with all these colours! Then, we can spray everyone around us with the same divine colours, creating a wave!

Let’s start celebrating Holi inside as well!

Happy Holi! Om Shanti!