आज दिवाली का लक्ष्मी पूजन दिन ह

३१ अक्टूबर, २०१६

The melodious Eternal Song ( अमर भूपाली ) rendered by late Ms. Lata Mangeshkar pays tribute to the dawn of Diwali. Every dawn presents an opportunity to refresh and reinvent ourselves.

Symbolisms injecting subtle messages of wisdom abound in every colorful cultural and religious story and tradition. These are brilliantly scripted stories.

The Hindu ( भारतीय ) philosophical way of life offers full unbridled freedom to experience and interpret life at individual specific comprehension. Worshipping or not worshipping a God image is optional. Each individual may exercise the freedom to choose or not to choose an individual specific God image. Religion is simply a way of individual specific life of choice.

The image of Goddess Lakshmi is worshipped to respectfully honor the wisdom of wealth at all levels of existence. The word wealth implies blessings of good health and well being, harmony within family and environment, opportunities to serve and be blessed,  and enjoying pleasant coincidences of life in sheer gratitude.

The blindly faithful with individual choice, worship and approach the Goddess Lakshmi begging for wealth in various forms including more cash flow, diamonds, jewelry, real estate and even a condo reservation  in Heaven.  It amounts to a businessman disclosing his truthful Ledger of Accounting broadcasting business turnover to the Goddess and asking her blessings for higher turnover in the following year.  Each devotee appears to be a businessman with a personal Ledger portfolio.

In Rajasthan there is an exclusive temple dedicated to an Owl because Owl is symbolic of the bird on which Goddess Lakshmi transports herself. For this reason, an Own is honored as Lakshmi’s emissary or messenger. Human greed or weakness for accumulating material wealth knows no bounds. in the process of blind faith, a natural bird like an Owl gets elevated to a higher pedestal of human consciousness. Owl is respected as a devdoot ( देवदूत ) or confidant of Goddess Lakshmi.

Symbolically each God image in Hindu philosophical thought has been assigned either a seafaring creature ( fish ), flying bird or beast as its favorite riding accompaniment in order to imply the all inclusiveness of the Cosmic presence. The image of Lord Ganesh, with a human body and an Elephant head is symbolic of an integrated complementary structure of human and elephant. He is son of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. A tell tale story narrates how a normal human baby by birth, grows up and later as a teenager gets his head cut off while engaged in a battle with a stranger trying to enter his residence. The stranger was his father, Lord Mahadeo. After the mistaken identity was realised, an elephant head was transplanted on to the human body of the teenager through a cosmic surgery.

The list of imaginative subtle associations of Divinity and living species is limitless; primarily bringing out the essence of Cosmic all inclusiveness.

श्री लक्ष्मी देवी का वाहन, देवदूत उल्लू

आज, श्रद्धा भावसे श्री लक्ष्मी देवी का पूजन कीजिये, कुछ बिना मांगे।  

तेल का दीया और उसके प्रकाश में, आपका अज्ञान दूर करनेकी क्षमता है।  

जिंदगी में, जो कुछ आपके श्रम दानसे मिलना है वही पाओगे, बिना कुछ मागे।  

कुछ कम नहीं और कुछ ज्यादा भी नहीं।  

इसीका नाम है श्रद्धा और आत्मजागृति ।