Significance of Deepam

[Geeta Mallikarjunan]

Significance of Deepam

 

In almost every Indian household it is customary to light the deepam (lamp) twice, both in the morning and evening. This is usually done in the prayer room before the deity. Our daily worship starts with the lighting of the lamp. All auspicious functions, religious as well as social, start with the lighting of the lamp. This custom has deep intellectual and spiritual significance.

Primarily deepam signifies knowledge. All our activities should be governed by the light of knowledge, especially the knowledge of Dharma. By this knowledge, ignorance or darkness is dispelled. We bow to knowledge which is the greatest wealth in our lives. Knowledge also backs our good as well as bad actions. So, the lamp which is kept lit for all auspicious occasions is a witness to our thoughts and actions.

The flame is fed on the oil of clear devotion and enlivened by the breeze of intense love of contemplation of the Divine. The wick is the intellect strengthened by impressions of striving to cultivate the right values. This is the spiritual significance of a deepam compared to an electric light which can only remove darkness. Like the flame burning upwards, our knowledge must take us towards higher ideals.

With a single deepam, we can light many more lights. But the original lamp does not diminish when helping to light others. This shows that our knowledge does not decrease when we share it with others. The clarity and conviction increase on giving and so the giver and receiver are both benefited.

 

Geeta Mallikarjunan

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Truly.

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Thamasoma Jyothirgamaya, 

Mruthyoma Amruthangamaya, 

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[Hariharan S]

Nice one...! 

But... wonder why we blow out candles before 'cake - cutting' celebrations of birth days or Anniversaries..?! [Instead of 'lighting' one!]

Does this sustain to "Mruthyoma Amruthangamaya"?!

Regards

hariharan

[Bobby Shivyana]

My dear Hari Haran,

Simply, that is the difference between the east and the west.

To make a beginning of an event or celebrate any anniversary, we light up oil lamps before the god, prepare sweets and other dishes suitable to the season at home, offer them as 'naivedyam' while thanking (nivedan = make a report/request to God) and sweeten the environment.

For the same reasons (1) they prepare cakes as an offering to moon God, light up the candles and put them off so that the smoke repels the evil from the place (2) light up number of the candles equivalent to completed years of age and blow them to notify the completed years to the Society.

East or West, you invite relatives and friends, you celebrate, you try to please your god, you wanted to drive the evil out, you eat, you enjoy and notify to the community. 

 

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Doubt clarified.. [smoke repels evil..]

Thanks..!

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