[FairfieldLife] Re: 1951 Happy Deepavali!

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Diwali [Deepavali] will be truly glorious only when the inner light is lit, and 
then Diwali would not only be today, but will be every day.  Diwali will then 
be purposeful.  Otherwise, today's Diwali itself is saying—So what if the 
garlands of lamps have lit the light outside just for one day in a year?  
-Maharishi
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 Yup religion aside, pure transcendentalism. 
 This one is a nice early quote about what this is all about. 
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

On Lamps of Deepavali

India, 1951

Maharishi (Bal Brahmachari Mahesh):  Innumerable lamps have suddenly lit the 
darkness of night and the whole earth is glowing as if waking up, becoming 
aware to receive love from its own innerlight;

Or has the earth become the sky and yesterday's twinkling stars have become 
today's garlands of lamps, lighting the whole earth;

Or is it I who has risen up today and lit these lamps with my own hands, 
expressing my own inner light—the Purushartha, which has transformed the 
darkness of this time into bright light.

The darkness of tonight's new moon has brightened up far more than the glow of 
the full moon nights.

Yes, this total darkness of the new moon nights of Karttik months has always 
come and will always be coming at its usual time, but in all our alertness, we 
have always risen up taking the lamp in our hands, and we will always keep 
rising up, carrying innumerable lamps and transforming the darkness into the 
celebration of a big Festival of Lights through our won fully enlivened inner 
light—the Purushartha.

And why not?  Great is the glory of Purushartha—fully enlivened inner light—and 
it is so apparent that the lamp of the Self, which I had lit earlier in the 
darkness of life, today that one lamp has multiplied outside, shining as 
innumerable bright lamps of Deepavali.

Diwali [Deepavali] will be truly glorious only when the inner light is lit, and 
then Diwali would not only be today, but will be every day.  Diwali will then 
be purposeful.  Otherwise, today's Diwali itself is saying—So what if the 
garlands of lamps have lit the light outside just for one day in a year?



Jai Guru Dev

 

[FairfieldLife] Re: 1951 Happy Deepavali!

[dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]]

Yup religion aside, pure transcendentalism. 
 This one is a nice early quote about what this is all about. 
 

 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com,  wrote :

 

On Lamps of Deepavali

India, 1951

Maharishi (Bal Brahmachari Mahesh):  Innumerable lamps have suddenly lit the 
darkness of night and the whole earth is glowing as if waking up, becoming 
aware to receive love from its own innerlight;

Or has the earth become the sky and yesterday's twinkling stars have become 
today's garlands of lamps, lighting the whole earth;

Or is it I who has risen up today and lit these lamps with my own hands, 
expressing my own inner light—the Purushartha, which has transformed the 
darkness of this time into bright light.

The darkness of tonight's new moon has brightened up far more than the glow of 
the full moon nights.

Yes, this total darkness of the new moon nights of Karttik months has always 
come and will always be coming at its usual time, but in all our alertness, we 
have always risen up taking the lamp in our hands, and we will always keep 
rising up, carrying innumerable lamps and transforming the darkness into the 
celebration of a big Festival of Lights through our won fully enlivened inner 
light—the Purushartha.

And why not?  Great is the glory of Purushartha—fully enlivened inner light—and 
it is so apparent that the lamp of the Self, which I had lit earlier in the 
darkness of life, today that one lamp has multiplied outside, shining as 
innumerable bright lamps of Deepavali.

Diwali [Deepavali] will be truly glorious only when the inner light is lit, and 
then Diwali would not only be today, but will be every day.  Diwali will then 
be purposeful.  Otherwise, today's Diwali itself is saying—So what if the 
garlands of lamps have lit the light outside just for one day in a year?



Jai Guru Dev