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From: Sushama
Deepavali is more than a festival
Author: S. Aravindan Neelakandan
Publication: UPI Asia Online
Date: November 9, 2007
URL: http://www.upiasiaonline.com/Society_Culture/2007/11/09/commentary_deepavali_is_more_than_a_festival/2789/
Deepavali is the Festival of Light celebrated by Indian religious traditions -- Vedic, Jain and Sikh. Multi-level mythologies and history have made the festival cherished in the memories and lives of the billion-strong Indian communities. It is the Festival of Light, and light symbolizes many things positive, including primarily freedom.
... deletedDeepavali is thus more than just a festival. It is an expression in light divine of a great civilization that emphasizes the oneness and divinity of not just humanity but of all existence, in this age of strife and terror.
(S. Aravindan Neelakandan is a social scientist working with an ecological NGO called Vivekananda Kendra -- Natural Resources Development Project in Nagercoil, India. He is also a freelance writer and author of the Tamil-language "God and 40 Hz.")
1 comment:
Good article but I have a problem calling Sanatan Dharma (Hindu) philosophy as 'mythology'. Really! do you believe in the propoganda against Sanatan Dharma that all that our Shastras says is all myth while Christ and Mohammad are the only ones real?
Call it what it is: Sanatan Dharam Theology.
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