The grand festival of lights, Diwali, is coming soon, bringing with it a chain of festive celebrations that will fill every home with joy. Most of us are well aware that traditionally Diwali is celebrated after Naraka Chaturdashi, the day that marks the destruction of the demon of body-consciousness, symbolising the victory of divine consciousness over darkness. Hence, Diwali is not merely a festival of lamps but a remembrance of Satya Yuga, the Golden Age, when every soul was self-lit and divine in nature.

During the three days of Diwali, a simple earthen lamp becomes sacred when filled with oil and wick and set aflame. People bow to it, place its light reverently on their forehead, and even offer wealth before it. But once its oil is consumed and the flame extinguishes, that same lamp i

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