Wishing one and all a very happy Deepaawali / Diwaali 2021....😊💐🍨🍕
It is needless to say that, of all the Indian festivals, Deepaawali / Diwaali is the most vibrant festival celebrated across the world with hundred and hundreds of miles of the near by skies lit up with many a dazzling fireworks that earmark the Diwaali festive celebrations....
Deepaawali is the festival of lights....
Deepaawali is the festival of sounds....
Deepaawali is the festival of sweets....
Deepaawali is the festival of knowledge...
Deepaawali is the festival of wisdom...
As known by many of us, Deepaawali is the festival of a new financial year for Maarvaadi and other traditional Indian business segment holders who consider Diwaali a great time to clear off their old accounts in order to begin new accounts and thus we are given loads of discounts during Diwali festive time...😊
Ok now let's discuss the philosophical prominence of Deepaawali festival and the embedded spiritual message across the Diwali celebrations...
Deepam means a Diya / a traditional lamp. The mud container holding the oil is a symbolic representation of a human mortal coil.
The 3 fold cotton wick
kept in the oil ( saajyam trivarti samyuktam...) is a symbolic representation of the 3 Dashaas namely...
1. From Baalyam to Yavvanam.
Youth age ( say 0 to 30 years)
+
2. From Yavvanam to Proudham
Adult age (say 30 to 60 years)
+
3. From Proudham to Vaardhakyam
Old-age (say 60 to 90 years)
of everyone's life....
and thus the 3 fold cotton wick represents our entire typical life duration...
The flame held by the wick on it's one end is a symbolic representation of our life's avasthaa trayam as explained below and the light and the heat generated by that flame is a symbolic representation of the entropy created by our life in to the surrounding universe as we keep living from our DOB to DOD in various ways via various livelihood...
The Tri-colored flame ( Green Hue + Methane Blue + Reddish Golden Yellow )
is a symbolic representation of the Avasthaatrayam, i.e., the three generic states every typical human body usually transcends across. and they are
the 1.Jaagrat, 2.Swapna, 3.Sushupti...
i.e., the states of 1.Being Awake, 2. Being in dreams 3. Being in deep sleep.
If one can make a finer observation on how a diya glows, it is evident that as long as there is continuous supply of the oil, it glows brighter for longer times with the same three fold wick and when there isn't proper oil supply it will burn out within minutes....
So, it is indeed the oil that is the JeevaShakti for the lamp to glow brighter and longer and thus the quality and the quantity of the oil used determines it's successfull life time...
The food that a human body and the mind in it consumes, is the symbolic representation of the oil....
Food doesn't mean only the eatables we consume, the water we drink and the air we breathe... It also includes the knowledge and wisdom bits that we supply to our mind...
Thus, the appropriate quality and quantity of the " food " consumed by the body and the mind together become the deciding factors of the vibrant life lived by a human being....
( As explained by sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaaru, 1/6 th of the essence of the food consumed by us becomes our 'manasu' or 'mind' which controls the entire human body's executions....)
Now coming to the meta-physical aspects associated with deepaaraadhana,
Worship of the light ( deepaaraadhana and thus intrinsically heat / agni aaraadhana ) is the key hold of the Bhaarateeya / Sanaatana Samskruthi and it's vaibhawam and thus goes it's name "Bhaarath"...
And for those who remember sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaari explanation of the Panchopachaaraalu and the associated sensual analogy.....
Deepam
Dhoopam
Pushpam
Gandham
Naivedyam
Deepam / Deepaaraadhana corresponds to the eyes / vision element and thus for those who do regular Deepaaraadhana, their vision remains exceptionally powerful...
( Both the physical vision that corresponds to looking an object and the meta-physical vision that corresponds to having a clear road map of their goals/targets/executions/paths etc.....)
We have the power of electricity in to human life only from the end of 19th century.
Hence no light houses were operational until the 20th century....
So, until then all our ancestors had to rely on their powerful eye vision to navigate their path based on the relative location of the stars in the skies...
As uttered by sathguru Shree ChaaganTi gaaru in one of his pravachanams...
" Taranti Naavika iti taaraa...."
which means
.... that which helps the navigators to successfully tread their paths is called a star....
Thus in olden days it was extremely important to have a stronger vision for the navigators to create a logical map of the path to tread to reach their destinations successfully as per the guidance obtained from the shining stars..
There is a phrase in a Telugu song that goes,
"O chukka navvavay....vaygula chukkaa navvavay....."
The word "vaygulu" means "informers".
Stars are essentially great informers of many things that happen under the skies for those who know the science of stars that spawns way beyond the well known subjects of Astronomy and Astrology....
As a matter of fact, only the Nakshatra Shaastram is a supreme subject that has the power to transcend us in to those realms that are beyond the reach of the time plane and space plane as well....
( I can't go in to all those cosmic intricacies of Einstein's theory of relativity, Maxwells wave theory, Schrodinger's wave equation, to provide all those details here...)
So a deepam / deepaaraadhana is essentially the cosmic equivalent of Nakshatram / Nakshatra Aaraadhana in the earth plane.....
and thus in a nutshell, deepaaraadhana confers all the blessings of Nakshatraaraadhana...
There are innumerable stars that lit up the skies of which we can see only a few because of various atmospheric conditions / limitations...
However, there are certain places on this very earth itself where in an awe-inspiring vision of the innumerable stars out there in the cosmos is available to become flabarghasted at the miracles of skies....
The festival of Deepaawali celebrates the spirit of the "Bhaa" ( the all pervading light within as well as around us ), and thus for those innumerable stars out there in the cosmos we lit many diyas / lamps to signify the various stars and worship them as their equivalents...
It is to be noted that Deepaawali festival heralds the beginning of the most auspicious month of the Kaarteeka Maasam where in the most vibrant among the regular list of 27 stars, the "Krutthika" nakshatram, will be in coalition with the moon on it's full moon day which is celebrated as "Karteeka PourNami", one of the most celebrated festivals of spiritual India......
As and when the moon is about to reach the astral zone of a star it will create a certain enery realm and the associated effects on the living beings of this mortal planet....
Correspondingly, when the moon is almost about to be in coalition with Krutthika Nakshatram on the day of Kaarteeka Pournami, 2 days before this event happens, i.e., on the 12th lunar day of the waxing phase of the moon in the Kaarteeka Maasam, the energy field of Krutthika Nakshatram will start radiating a great positive energy that is tapped by one of the most powerful forms of devaata moorthy on the planet earth,
the "UgraShreenivaasa Moorthy", residing inside the Tirumala AanandaNilayam all along the 364 days of the year. Only on the 12th lunar day of Kaarteekamaasa Shuklapaksham, that is celebrated as Kaishika Dwaadashi day, he is brought out in a procession to capture the power of that "Kruttikaa Nakshatra janita Shakti valayam" and is taken back in to the tirumala AanandaNilayam before the dawn sets in...
A small spark is enough to lit up a gas stove because of the pressurized methane emanated by it.....
Similarly, a small spark of cosmic sun light is enough to trigger the catastrophic effects of UgraShreenivaasa Moorthy.....
And so is this early morning procession of UgraShreenivaasa Moorthy performed to make sure that sun light, even the low magnitude dawn light, isn't caught by the exceptionanlly powerful cosmic reflecting / radiating effect possessed by him....
"Deepaawali Aasthaanam", is thus one of the most cherished celebrations of Tirumala Temple, for that the Lord Shree Venkateshwara will be receiving a new tinge of the Krutthika Nakshatra Shakti captured and supplied by the UgraShreenivaasa Moorthy placed at the divine AshTadala Padma PeeTham on the KaishikaDwaadashi day.....
As known by many, "Dwaadashi" is the day of Paarana as per the sampradaayam.....
Human beings who observe the most complex "Eakadashi Upavaasa Vratam" take fruits / milk / cooked prasaadam / etc etc for their Dwaadashi paarana where as Lord Shree Venkateshwara consumes the fresh power element emanated by the most vibrant of all the stars, the "Krutthika Nakshatram" which is captured in the requisite filtered way by
his UgraShreenivasa Moorthy who is also known as " Snapana Beram " ( in his Tirumala PanchaBera tiruvaaraadhana sampradayaam ) to whom 'snapana tirumanjanam', the regular Abhishekams are performed in the AanandaNilayam...
1. AanandaNilayam
2. SnapanaMandapam
3. RaamulavaariMayDa
4. ShayanaMandapam
5. ManimanDapam/BangaaruVaakili
6. VenDivaakili
7. PaDikaavali
are the 7 energy centers of Tirumala Aalayam, of which the 1st is the most complex of all, the innermost one known as "AanandaNilayam" with KulashekharapaDi as it's guarding threshold beyond which no devotees are allowed to enter other than Shreevaari MoolaviraaT Archaka / ShreeVaikhaanasa Archaka group who follow the required strict code of conduct
as per the outlined principles of ShreeVaikhaanasaBhagawad
AaraadhanaaShaastram created by ShreeVikhanasaMaharshi to keep the magnanimity of tirumala intact across all the times to come.....
Hence, the "SnapanaMandapam" named after the "Snapana Beram" or "UgraShreenivaasa Moorthy",
is the second inner most energy center and the final energy center accessible to the devotees, who participate in the AarjitaSevas like SuprabhaataSeva, NijapaadaDarshanam, AshTaDalaPaadapadmaaraadhanam
etc.....
( I sincerely pray my lord to bless me with the other remaining 3 Sevas, i.e.,
SahasraKalaShaabhiShekam on Wedneday,
TiruppaavaDaSeva on Thursday and the PooraabhiShekam+Melchaathvastra
Seva on Friday and their respective prasaadams so that I would be complete in terms of performing all the Tirumala Aalaya AarjitaSevalu in my life..😊)
And thus ShreeTaallapaaka Annamaachaarya has extolled Lord in his
sakeertana
"NityaatmuDai unDi...NityuDai velugondu..."
saying that...
"He is that very cosmic light residing in all the living beings...he is the source of energy to everything... he is beyond any explainable realms......"
"యేదేవుఁ డీజీవులిన్నింటిలో నుండు - నేదేవుచైతన్య మిన్నిటికి నాధార-
మేదేవుఁ డవ్యక్తుఁ డేదేవుఁ డద్వంద్వుంఁ- డాదేవుఁ డీవేంకటాద్రివిభుఁడు....."
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