Wishing each and every one a very Happy Deepavali or Diwali.
The dark night when there is No Moon is called as the night of the New Moon.
From pitch darkness, the journey is inevitably towards light.
When pyrotechnics illuminate the skies, let the pure knowledge of reasoning illuminate our minds.
When sparks spread their gleam all around, let hope get regenerated in our hearts.
When crackers explode with a thud and smoke, let our ignorance and vanity explode to shreds.
Like the sweets of different varieties dissolving in our mouths, let faiths of different forms get fused to show that ultimately, all paths have the same goal.
Let relationship be built with bonhomie, ever onwards, like is done on this day.
When eyes search for the sparks of light in the dark,
Let the heart yearn to know the truth,
Of what is this being, what is its purpose.
Then, all notions based on the presumed greatness
or the lack of it, by hereditary would vanish
before the illumination that the present alone matters.
Mind does not get disturbed,
by what some one says or does not,
like the flying objects care not for gravity.
Let this moment of darkness,
lead to that search
and let the sparks show
the way into the inner recesses.
-R. Manimohan
Coimbatore
