From: Sumangal Gupta <sumangalprasad@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:01:13 +0530
Subject: Happy Diwali

Dear all
Wishing you and your family a Happy Diwali & a Prosperous New Year.
Love & Best Wishes for Good Health, Fortune, Peace & Prosperity.

No other festival unites Indians around the world, as does Deepavali. A
single diya or lamp holds infinite beauty and hope.

Diwali brings up a number of things in the mind's eye - *sweets, new
clothes, account books, Goddess Lakshmi, fireworks etc.
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This year, *along with celebrating Diwali, Let's Also Experience It.*

As we clean our homes, let's clean our minds and intellects too.

As we wear new clothes, let's also get rid off our old, unwanted, disturbing
habits of anger, jealousy, worry.... and emerge our new but original
qualities of peace, love, bliss and happiness.

Tonight we will settle our old account books and begin new ones,
simultaneously let us settle our old karmic accounts, any unpleasant
relationships and begin our relationships in a new, positive way.

We are all aware of the pollution caused by firecrackers, but it is Diwali,
we need to burn crackers, so why not burn all the crackers of evil
characteristics within ourselves - this burning will in fact purify our
minds and the environment too.

As we exchange sweets let us also exchange meaningful sweet words, good
wishes and blessings.

If we really experience Diwali we will succeed in invoking the divinity of
Goddess Lakshmi in ourselves. *The key lies in lighting a single 'diya' - my
own conscient awareness .... Meditation - connecting with the Supreme diya,
the Supreme Soul, helps me in doing that.*

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With Regards
Sumangal,