Where has that Diwali gone in which crops are celebrated?
Matrai Pushpa October 31,2024
Festivals have their own importance. Along with this, the glory of the gods and goddesses is also associated with them. There are many festivals in the year but mainly Holi and Diwali are considered and celebrated. I am saying this because though the form of these festivals may seem different, the matter remains festive. These festivals are opportunities to show goodwill towards friends, relatives and neighbors, otherwise a person remains busy in earning his living. There is no opportunity to give or take good wishes.
One thing will be common everywhere that both Holi and Diwali are related to agriculture. These are celebrations of the arrival of crops. On Diwali, Kharif crops come for farmers, such as new pulses, rice and many food items and the traders run their business on this crop. No matter how much difference you make between village and city, the basic life of both is connected with food. Every person’s festival starts from the stove of the house. The market is a celebration later.
Festivals have their own importance. Along with this, the glory of the gods and goddesses is also associated with them. There are many festivals in the year but mainly Holi and Diwali are considered and celebrated. I am saying this because though the form of these festivals may seem different, the matter remains festive. These festivals are opportunities to show goodwill towards friends, relatives and neighbors, otherwise a person remains busy in earning his living. There is no opportunity to give or take good wishes.
One thing will be common everywhere that both Holi and Diwali are related to agriculture. These are celebrations of the arrival of crops. On Diwali, Kharif crops come for farmers, such as new pulses, rice and many food items and the traders run their business on this crop. No matter how much difference you make between village and city, the basic life of both is connected with food. Every person’s festival starts from the stove of the house. The market is a celebration later.
Diwali is religiously associated with the arrival of Ramchandra Ji from the forest to Ayodhya. It is believed that when Ramchandra Ji returned to Ayodhya after killing the demons, he was welcomed with a garland of lamps. It is believed that this is the victory of light over darkness which is eternal till date.
The day of Diwali inspires us that it is the duty of man to protect the gentlemen. It is a sign of humanity to remove the darkness of evil deeds or it is necessary to stand up and fight for those who are downtrodden, suppressed, neglected and persecuted.
The day of Diwali inspires us that it is the duty of man to protect the gentlemen. It is a sign of humanity to remove the darkness of evil deeds or it is necessary to stand up and fight for those who are downtrodden, suppressed, neglected and persecuted.
The day of Diwali inspires us that it is the duty of man to protect the gentlemen. It is a sign of humanity to remove the darkness of evil deeds or it is necessary to stand up and fight for those who are downtrodden, suppressed, neglected and persecuted.
Today the situation is different. The potters’ kilns are cold. Their livelihood has stopped. Now who cares about the earthen lamps, who lights the wick? All this has become old, out of fashion. Now there are innumerable strings of lights that run on electricity, blue-green-red-pink, any number of colours.
If there is nothing else, then there are no real colours in the lights today. Where would they come from, the consignment of colours is coming from China. Diwali is not a festival of China, it is the business of that country. This business is swallowing the festival of our farmers and potters. It is true that the festival of Diwali is connected to the worship of Lakshmi, is related to wealth and grains. Ganesh ji has a different significance. All these gods together call upon people to celebrate Diwali in their own way because they belong to the farmers and labourers as much as they belong to the rich and moneylenders, in fact they are closer to the farmers and labourers because the offerings to the gods are made from the food and jaggery earned from the hard work of the farmers and labourers, no matter in what form it appears.
Who is excited about Diwali? Who is overjoyed on this festival? Many people are happy. Many people are overjoyed because their black business flourishes during these days. The market is filled with adulterated sweets. From khoya paneer to oil and ghee, they are competing with each other in their toxicity.
The people who are celebrating the festival of Diwali in the joy of the arrival of Lord Ramchandra, the traders are bent on poisoning the same people. Where is the negligence? The administration is careless because the game of money is going on everywhere. There is no darkness under these lamps, there is darkness under the bright colourful strings. Is this a trap laid against Diwali or are these misdeeds being committed under the cover of Diwali?
This form of festivals does not match with Diwali which is a festival of crops. When new crops are welcomed. Where are those included in this festival who have been the claimants of light, who have distributed rice bran and sugar candy. Today everyone is running towards friends’ houses with poisonous sweets and old rotten dry fruits because people do not want to fall down from the ladder of modernity by eating bran. And anyway people are so sensitive now that their lips will get peeled by the bran and candy. They cannot tolerate all this rudeness. Well, our society has become used to food poisoning.
