Five Auspicious Days of Diwali

Jai Shri Mataji!

The Festival of Light will soon be with us again, when we celebrate the enlightenment of
Human Beings through Kundalini awakening and Self-realization, and the joy of God's
Love.
HAPPY DIWALI!!
Day 1 (Tuesday 21 October) Dhanteras
The first day is the Shri Gruha Lakshmi day, the actual birthday of Shri Lakshmi, so on
this is the day it is considered auspicious offer a household item as a present to the
housewife who is the Gruha Lakshmi of the household. The first day is also the birthday
of Shri Dhanvantari, the Divine Healer (aspect of Shri Vishnu), who, like Shri Lakshmi
Herself, arose from the churning of the ocean. The photo of Shri Mataji in this aspect is
said to cure all ills.
Because Vishnu is the one who is, the one who cures. We call Him a Dhanvantari means a doctor. He is the one who cures because He is our preserver; He is the
preserver of human beings. So if He preserve your dharma, then you don't get sick. And
if you get sick, it is Vishnu who will preserve, who will cure you. So He is the one who
is, we can call, Dhanvantari - is a doctor. Shri Mataji, Shri Vishnu puja, Paris, 13 July
1994.
Incidentally, according to William Blake, this aspect manifests in the UK in the City of
Bath:
Bath, mild Physician of Eternity, mysterious power Whose springs are unsearchable &
knowledge infinite. ('Jerusalem', Plate 46, lines 2-3)
Day 2 (Wednesday 22 October) Naraka Chaturdashi
The day when according to Shri Mataji, the Goddess gave Her power to Shri Kartikeya
to kill Narakasura (today known as Transcendental Meditation) (see Diwali puja 1989).
UK & Eire are particularly affected by this negative aspect, that attacks the heart and
creates conflict, division and disharmony. Hell's gate is open in the early hours of
morning (the real Halloween) when Narakasura is pushed into Hell, so it's advisable to
sleep relatively late (ie: not to meditate at 4am or get up early to eat Diwali sweets!), get
up after sunrise and also leave a lamp burning safely overnight from evening. Shri
Mataji also advised us that this was the only time that Sahaja Yogis should fast, saying
that we should not eat before about midday/12.30pm until Narakasura's influence has
dispersed.
Day 3 (Thursday 23 October) Diwali/Shri Lakshmi puja
DIWALI DAY
Today we perform puja to Shri Lakshmi/Shri Mahalakshmi and invite the Goddess into
our homes with lights. This is the auspicious day of Diwali, the Diwali Amavasya, the
darkest night of the year - symbolising the victory of Light over darkness.
This is the day of Mahalakshmi Puja, not only of Lakshmi Puja Shri Mataji, Diwali puja,
9 Nov 1980.
Today is the actual Christmas Eve, as at Midnight on this the darkest night Shri Jesus
Christ was born as Shri Mahavishnu (Mahaganesha) to Shri Mary who was Shri
Mahalakshmi.

Day 4 (Friday 24 October) Diwali Padwa

This day is one of the 3-and-a-half most auspicious days of the year. Today is the true
birthday of Lord Jesus Christ, the incarnation of Shri Ganesha, the actual Christmas
Day. Shri Rama was crowned on this day after defeating Ravana. It's New Year's day in
the Hindu Vikram calendar, but note that the Shalivahana New Year for Sahaja Yogis is
Gudi Padwa (around late March/April). A very auspicious day to begin new things.
Day 5 (Saturday 25 October) Bhaiduj
Celebration of the brother and sister relationship.
HAPPY DIWALI!!
Shri Mataji talks about all the details of the five days of Diwali in a talk after Her main
speech about 39 minutes into the DVD of Diwali 1983 in Hampstead:
http://www.amruta.org/1983/11/06/diwali-puja-1983/
"Now today we'll not have any havan, that we have decided because in the Diwali there
is no need to have any havan but we'll have just the puja. Now today is the puja - as
you know there are five days they celebrate Diwali. The first day is the thirteenth day
where it is the Gruha Laksmi's day, that is the day when the Gruha Laksmi is
worshipped. But a Gruha Lakshmi has to be worthy of the worship, and then some
utensil is given to the Gruha Lakshmi. Some sort of a utensil is to be given to the Gruha
Lakshmi as a present. That is the day Lakshmi was born, Lakshmi was born out of the
Mother Earth. Out of the, we should say, Mother Earth but She came out of the sea after
the churning, so that is the birth of the Lakshmi. She's the giver of wealth, wealth which
is material as well as spiritual. A wife who says that: "All right you save all the money,"
teaches the children to be selfish and teaches the husband to be selfish, to save all the
money in the bank and not to be charitable is not a Lakshmi. She's the One who
teaches you how to be charitable, how to give to others. A woman who is very particular
about her money and bank balances is not a Lakshmi at all. She has to spend. She's
there to spend. Man has to preserve his money but the woman has to spend. He has to
earn for she has to spend, but rightly, spend it rightly, not only for herself but for the
family, but for the husband. She thinks: "What should I buy for my husband, for my
children, for other Sahaja Yogis, for other people?" - all her job. The husband earns and
gives it to her and she does that. It's a very sweet distribution I think. So that's the day
of the Gruha Lakshmi when She's born. She must have these qualities, if she's a
miserly, calculating type of a woman she is not a woman at all to begin with. If she's
worried about her own clothes and her own comforts and her own things then she's not
a Gruha Lakshmi. She makes others work and sits down herself and orders about she's not a Gruha Lakshmi at all. She has to work for others, she has to do for others,
she has to look after. That's the thirteenth day. Then the fourteenth day is the day when
Narakasura was killed. You know Narakasura has taken his birth and he's to be killed the Sahaja Yogis are going to kill him. You have to come up to a point and definitely he
can be killed. When Kartikeya is awakened within you he can be killed. But for that you
have to be just like gold, untarnishable. You need strong people to do that. A sword that
can kill him has to come out of your metals, then Narakasura can be killed. He is one of
the worst possible asura. That is the fourteenth day. When he was killed the gate of hell
was opened and all those who were his disciples or his followers or satanic people were
put. That's the only day you can sleep late, and a good news for you. Then the fifteenth
day, is the darkest night which we had, darkest night, that is the night when you put the
lights on because it is the darkest night the negative forces can walk in. So the lights are

put because Lakshmi can come in. You'll be surprised how Lakshmiji is, that if a bottle
of wine enters from
one end She disappears from another. If there's a lady, she's bhootish in the family, they
can never have the enjoyment of Lakshmi. The Lakshmiji runs away from them. They
may have money but they cannot enjoy. The Lakshmiji will run away. Such a person will
be so inauspicious I tell you. Supposing you want to, say, buy something and such a
bhootish person telephones to you- cannot get it, finished. First of all your ears will be
finished with the poison and then whatever work you are doing you'll never be
successful. Now this country is so full of such bhootish women - alakshmis, that I don't
know how will they become all right. The women have to decide to get rid of their bhoots
and not to carry on with them. They must meditate, they must try, if they feel sleepy they
must go and have a bath, go twice, thrice, sometimes burning yourself a little bit,
doesn't matter. See to it that you don't feel sleepy and dreamy. If you are dreamy by
nature then you are bhootish. That's the responsibility of women to keep the Lakshmi
intact. So that's the Lakshmi Day when we say that Lakshmi Puja takes place because
that is the day you invite the Lakshmi to come in, the Rajalakshmi, the Lakshmi by
which you become the king of the family, or the royal benevolence you can call it, the
regal feeling in the family - that is the day. Then comes the day, next to that is the first of
the month in... That is the calendar, My forefathers, because you're all My children you
have to use the same calendar, Shalivahanas calendar and that is the first day of the
Shalivahanas calendar. And what do they do in the morning time to celebrate it? They
take one of these jars, Aquarius and put a shawl with it and that is put as a flag,
representing the Aquarius and the shawl of the Mother. That's why they are called as
Shalivahana - the ones who carry the shawls of the Mother, the "carriers of the shawls
of the Mother". That's how they put it up. The shawl on top of the Aquarius. This should
be actually the flag of the Sahaja Yogis that you make it the Aquarius or we can say the
jar [- what do you call that pitcher? Or not pitcher but this lota business what do you call
that - there's nothing used like that here. That one is kumbha - we can call in kumbha
and the shawl is there so they put it up. That's why they] (FV note: The section between
square brackets was not found on either my audio tape or mp3 file, and hence could not
be verified.) call as Gudi Padwa, Padwa means first day of the moon is Padwa, and
Gudi means "this". So they put it up and that is how they say that today is the New Year
day for the Shalivahanas. Shawl is the covering of your Mother which gives it warmth
and also it covers Her modesty. Shawl is a sign of regality and modesty and chastity. So
you stand for that of your Mother. You protect it like Ganesha does. Only on one point
He gets angry, if anybody says or does anything against the Mother, then He comes
down. That's why Christ has said: "Anything against Me
I'll tolerate, but anything against the Holy Ghost, will not be forgiven." That's the Son
talking about the Mother, that's what happens. So today is the second day. Second day
is the Bija - is the they call it the Bhav-bija is the day when the brother and the sister,
who are the seeds of one tree have that pure exchange of affection. The sister does the
aarti of the brother, gives him a tika and then brother gives her something as a token of
his love, as a present. In Bombay we started that and they have made sisters and
brothers. I wish you also could find out somebody as a nice brother. But I found that
these relationships have been so beautifully managed in India that if they could be
managed here, it will be a great day of really ecstasy for Me, because that means you
have overcome this devil of immorality. The purity, removing the lust and greed from
your mind completely and bestowing that affection for someone who is your sister. Very
common in India, everybody has a sister there; all the Sahaja Yogis have a sister and
they look after their sister that way. Is a very sweet feeling and a sister is treated like
Raulbai is a sister of Dumas you can imagine, and her sister is treated with the same
grace as the own sister is to be treated with all the relationships and everything. So this
is the fifth day is Dwija. So from thirteenth to the fifth day they celebrate Diwali. For us

Diwali has a very great significance. That is, from one light many lights are awakened
and they are put in a line, so they are called as Diwali means 'the lights put in a line'.
So when you hold My Hands together all of us - through that the energy passes and the
enlightened rasa is established, and the whole world has to become that beautiful reign
of your Mother where nothing but the bliss of your Father and His enjoyment when He
sees His Own Creation dancing in that Ocean of Bliss.
May God bless you!" Diwali puja 1983.
Diwali puja, 9 Nov 1980:
The first day of Diwali is called as Dhanatrayodashi, is the thirteenth day of the
moon. Because that day is the first day when Lakshmi, the first was born on the
thirteenth day. That means She was born as a Gruha Lakshmi, as a housewife. Now
there are eight Lakshmis, which she will read it now and I will tell you later on what is
the meaning of them. Just one of them is Gruha Lakshmi. So the first is the form of a
Gruha Lakshmi. She is born as a Gruha
Lakshmi to begin with. That means the awareness of human beings also, started really
getting into evolutionary process when they started their family life. When they were
vagabonds moving about, then the awareness was just like animals. Though they had
become human beings, but they were like animals. Then when they established their
families, then the Gruha Lakshmi started working and thats how the first advent of
Gruha Lakshmi was felt. So She is the first Lakshmi who was born, and thats why on
that thirteenth
day is the day of the Gruha Lakshmi, of the housewife. And so one has to go in the
market and buy some utensil or something that she uses for cooking in the house. In
India on the thirteenth day everyone goes and buys a pot or say we can say, what
you call, a cooking utensil or something. Or they may buy a sari or something or gold or
something for the Gruha Lakshmi. That is the day of the housewife. So, to reach the
Lakshmi one has to understand that motherhood is very important. The motherhood as
a Gruha Lakshmi
is important. Diwali puja 1980.
http://www.amruta.org/1980/11/09/diwali-puja-1980/
1989-10-29: Diwali Puja, Montacatini Terme, Italy
"Then there is, the second day is where Narakasura was killed. Now Narakasura was
the one who was the devil from the hell, lets say? very cunning, very clever? and he
was killed by the
Goddess. Actually he was killed by a, another incarnation, Kartikeya, but Goddess gave
Him the power to kill. So when he was killed it was celebrated because the evil was
killed. But we
dont find that these days the evil people are getting peace awards. So what is the
reason for this kind of a perverted brain? How is it they are using perversion? Just the
opposite of it. What has worked out these things? So again we find the same so-called
freedom to become also evil. So we have freedom to become evil. First of all we have
freedom not to be benevolent, and secondly to become evil we have freedom. So the
Narakasura within us must be killed, the one which teaches us evil, to do evil to others.
If you are busy doing evil to others you can never enjoy. Because you enjoy doing evil
to others. So that has to be faced within ourselves, not in other people. Its very easy to
say that this Sahaja yogi is caught up, that Sahaja yogi is like that, but very difficult to
say, Mother, I am caught up. I have got this problem within myself. So when you start
seeing yourself your heart opens out. Unless and until you learn how to open out your
heart how can you enjoy? Open your heart. Many people live on very superficial level.
All right, some of them might say that, I am possessed, Mother. Ive got this
possession. Why? Ive got this conditioning, that conditioning. But why? You dont
want to enjoy. So watch yourself, see for yourself. This is my conditioning, All right, Ill

put you right. See in the mirror. Tell yourself, This kind of a useless conditioning Ive
got it from where? Because Im Indian, because Im French, because of English. Open
the heart. And opening the heart is only possible if Narakasura sitting on your heart is
killed, finished, once for all."