Let's begin with the Festival of Light Thiru Karthigai Deepam. This year its 29th November 2020 Royal Full Moon of abundance. Karthigai Deepam is a light festival celebrated during the Full Moon evening in the Tamil month of Karthigai (mid-Nov to mid-Dec) when the Moon is in the star Krittika or Kirthigai. Astronomically, this star is known as Alcyone, and it is the brightest star in the Pleiades constellation. This festival is celebrated in South India, Srilanka.
Significance of Karthigai Deepam
Karthigai Deepam is an ancient festival, which is celebrated for Lord Shiva and his son Muruga. The lighting of lamps forms an integral ritual of this festival. The lighting of lamps also has a spiritual significance on this day. Therefore, the lighting of the lamps represents the victory of good over evil. On Karthigai Deepam, people light lamps in their houses to usher in prosperity and auspiciousness in their lives and ward off negativities and evil forces. They clear their Karmic debts or ignorance of dark vanishes in the luminous Light.
Mythology 1:- The most ancient mythology associated with this festival is when Lord Brahma and Lord Vishnu once started quarreling with each other over their individual supremacy in terms of power and strength. Distressed by their arguments, Lord Shiva emerged in front of them as a flame of fire. Lord Brahma and Vishnu decided to compete with each other to find the start and end of this flame. For this Brahma took the form of a swan and Vishnu took the form of a boar. Finally, when none of them won, Lord Shiva emerged back into form and thus emphasized the infiniteness and ultimate existence of God that is beyond all measurements. It is believed that Lord Shiva later appeared as a massive fire hill called as Arunachala. To commemorate this mythological event, a holy fire is lit in a huge lamp, every year, on Karthigai Deepam.
Mythology 2:- Agni carried the six sparks that emanated from the third eye of Lord Shiva and deposited them in the river, Sara Vana. Each spark was transformed into a baby on a lotus. These babies were nurtured by six celestial nymphs or Krittikas. On the auspicious day of Karthikai Deepam, Goddess Parvathi comes to merge all six babies into a single child, Murugan with six faces. The six Krittikas were blessed with immortality to be living stars. It is to welcome them into the house that we decorate our houses with lamps during Karthigai Deepam. An illuminated lamp is considered as a favorable symbol in most cultures around the world.
Mythology 3:- In KERALA, this festival is known as Thrikarthika. On this day after sunset, all the houses, streets and temples are well lit with traditional oil lamps, made out of clay called Chirad. This is done to welcome Goddess Parvathy as she is believed to be born on this day. Devi is welcomed by the Lighting Deepam(Lamp). Lot more stories go on.
This festival of Light clearly gives us the essence of being light.
So now we are coming to the end of Part 3 Be the Light. As mentioned in the part 2 we will talk about the lance. Dedicated to true seekers and with blessings of all Light Masters. According to Hindu mythology, Goddess Parvati presented the Vel to her son Murugan as an embodiment of her shakti or power in order to vanquish the evil asura Soorapadman. Yes in each of us there is evil or Karmas and in order to vanquish Amma gives us the Vel or Lance of Light to banish our Asura. To get the Vel be Muruga. The alternative interpretation of Vel is that it is a symbol of wisdom/knowledge. It symbolically shows that wisdom/knowledge should be sharp as in the Vel's tip, broad as in the vel's breadth, and run deep as in the height. Only such wisdom can destroy the darkness of ignorance.
Muruga’s spiritual warrior energy is believed to conquer internal enemies that create debt, disease, doubt, fear, ignorance, and enemies. His weapon is the Vel, which is a type of lance.Muruga and his Vel are known for dissolving the most deep-rooted karma. The vel is also known as light. Light won over the dark force. The vel has a lot of significance in the transition from the physical into life beyond, or in other words, attaining a ‘light body’. Light is only your true nature rest is maya. I wish a day will come where all will realize Light. And this will be Prakasha Yugam where all are Light.
Thanks don't misunderstand these are my words. They have been passed to me from all Light Masters and Devi. And final words to conclude from Mohanji's Chronicles.
Lord Muruga, son of Lord Shiva and Devi Parvati is the Lord of the Pleiades and he is deeply connected to the earthly plane. He lived on our planet at one time, as is shown by the several temples of worship dedicated to him in Southern India. Lord Muruga is believed to have incarnated again, taking the form of Mahavatar Babaji as a disciple in the ashram of the great Siddha Bhoganathar, belonging to the ancient tradition of Nava Nath Sadhus (ascetics) who trace their tradition to Lord Shiva (Adhi Nath). The Siddha Kriya Yoga tradition was taught by Bhogar Maharshi and was then carried further by his disciple, Kriya Babaji also known as Mahavatar Babaji. It is believed that it is Lord Muruga’s will to reveal himself as the friend of the universe to help humanity evolve from the gross consciousness to that of subtle consciousness, which is pure light.
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