The Light Within

Come October and everyone gears up for the festival of lights. Houses are lit up, the ‘akash diyas’ are put up…homes get a thorough cleaning and of course loads of shopping. After all it marks a new beginning...so new clothes, new jewellery, new vehicle, new everything.

Expect...a new me.

We change our clothes, change the house paint, change the look of the house, change our jewellery, change our linen…but how many of us actually pause to look within and change what is of utmost importance? Do we even consider changing our thoughts, our outlook, our attitude, our perspective? Do we think of changing for the better? That after all is what matters. And unfortunately that is what is most difficult of all. How lovely it would be if we could enter a shop and buy loads of positive attitude, oodles of love, kilometres of wider vision and heaps of good thoughts. But alas! It isn’t so.

We kill the Narkasur outside but clean forget about the Narkasur within. Diwali is meant for searching deeper, for identifying our very own Narkasur and getting rid of him. It is only when the Narkasur is removed that Krishna shines forth. It is only when the lamp of knowledge is lit that the darkness of ignorance is dispelled.

With this Diwali let’s light lamps of love and cheer wherever we go. But most importantly let’s not forget to go where the light is always aglow, where every day is Diwali.

Happy journey!