The moonless dark night sky with a few stars twinkling,
The festival of lights begins like a festival of fire.
The sparkling crackers brilliantly cracking before every house,
The night has become a living day light in the town.
The sound of crackers stepping up from the morning twilight,
Sustains so even after the day break.
Wearing costumes of varying hues suiting to the occasion,
People go afresh to the temples like new born flowers.
Offering their prayers before the beloved Lord for a better bright future,
They stand in queues to salute Him and leave for the home.
At home all share the holy prasath,
And flowers and fruits they wear and taste without any exception.
Gathering round the dining table then they eat the breakfast
With special sweets specially prepared for the fine occasion.
Sumptuously satisfying the stomach they have very long hours,
In the morning to read special greetings and colourful magazines,
Containing abundant articles and one popular mythological story too on the festival,
Depicting the final victory of dharma in classical clash between it and adharma;
The myth of the mythology is the personification of dharma and adharma,
Divine and animal, Good and evil and Love and hatred;
Posing a great threat to the existence of the whole of mankind and Gods,
The one time all powerful demon king Narakasura,
In a battle fought face to face against Lord Krishna,
The God of Dharma who took upon himself the cause of all,
Slew the demon by severing his head with the sudharsan chakra,
And from since then on the festival of light is celebrated as Diwali.
The festival of lights, Diwali means the light of luminous flame,
One of a leading articles explains etymologically on one colourful Diwali magazine;
And so goes the interpretations about Diwali in many beautiful articles and poems.
Like the clear blue sky as the light of the luminous flame drives away the darkness of confusion,
In the Diwali day the evils of eternal darkness are eliminated by the Brightness of the blue light.
The matter of discussion among the family members is on good and evil;
The triumph of the good, the fall of the evil and the restoration of happiness,
The simple thinking of the good men is and go on generation after generation so.
But the youth go out to see friends and have a good time;
The visitors come, exchange greetings and enjoy with the company of their choice;
The children not bothering about food, clothing and health play with fires insatiably;
And the mature indoors discuss at length with the visitors about the serious matters.
The serious matters affecting sincere activities curb human progress everywhere.
What are the serious matters? One may ask-
Corruption, dowry, unemployment, poverty, ignorance and disease
Those are the evils discussed as the serious matters everywhere.
People, women and youth to have a bright future the evils have to be destroyed by the Lord.
But a luminous brightness comes at will only after gaining experiences in deep concentration and meditation.
Such a feat when once achieved by everyone that day the darkness is sure to be driven away by daylight brightness.
The end of the discussion of the friends has come at the stroke of the lunch hour;
After the lunch taking ceremony the TV programme has come to life to take them to the places of fun and pageantry.
Then it’s evening when a flock of white birds flies towards the South;
The colourful illumination everywhere catches the eye of the looker on;
The earthenware lights have decorated every house at the entrance, staircase, corridors and balconies;
The sound of the crackers once again with the colourful light of the sparklers put the town in jubilation;
And so the festival of light cut all the barriers of restrictions through the night and on in freedom.