Festive time: Lamps illuminated for Diwali on Sunday
Members of a Hindu village applaud Diwali with enthusiasm during a Swami Narayan Temple. PHOTOS: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS
KARACHI: Houses flashy with varicoloured lights, charming rangolis and a heat of oil lamps were all that could be seen during a Swami Narayan Temple devalue on a fifth day of Diwali prayers on Sunday night.
With a end of a prayers, a festival of lights began and shrill pops of glow crackers resounded in a air, educational a sky in few bursts of light.
“We symbol this day to applaud a lapse of Ramchandra home with his mother Seeta after spending 14 years of vanvas [exile] in a forest,” explained Jawaharlal Advani, member of a handling cabinet of a Swami Narayan Temple State Trust.
He pronounced that they have criminialized a offered of glow crackers inside a church devalue in oneness with a victims of a new Quetta conflict and a Shias who were killed in an conflict during a majlis in Karachi a few days ago. The members of a trust also illuminated candles and oil lamps to remember a defunct and voiced their sympathies with a families who are pang due to a attacks.
The celebrations
Tenth class tyro Kanchan Kumari was bustling creation a colorful rangoli, while other children her age were lighting crackers. “We soak underdone rice in colour for roughly half an hour and afterwards let it dry,” she said, while creation a outline of a rangoli her father designed. She also explained that they make sketches with a assistance of marker and afterwards use phony rice to make rangolis.
Kumari’s neighbour, Kumkum tells The Express Tribune that they use both colour and rice to make rangoli. “The rangoli represents happiness, colour and celebration,” she pronounced sitting outward her residence and fixation oil lamps within a rangoli.
“Besides celebrating Ramchandra’s return, Diwali also outlines a Dhanteras pooja, that is carried out for Lakshmi Mata,” pronounced Kiran Dhanja, a member of a Pakistan Hindu Seva. She also pronounced that from a 800 faces of Lakshmi Mata, one is for dhan (money) and a final day of Diwali is for a goddess.
Diwali also outlines a commencement of a New Year and people revisit their families, kin and friends holding candy and gifts with them. “We buy new garments and applaud Diwali as a biggest occasion, it is like a Eid,” explained Dilip Kumar, who lives in a devalue with his dual daughters.
The judgment of lighting oil lamps is associated to a lapse of Ram and Seeta to Ayudhya. “When Ram and Seeta came behind to their home in Ayudhya, a residents of a area illuminated oil lamps outward their houses as a welcoming gesticulate for them,” pronounced Dhanja.
Hindus revisit a church a whole night even yet a prayers of Lakshmi Mata are for reduction than dual hours, pronounced Ramesh Maharaj, adding that people urge during home for health and resources and come to a church to applaud with friends, family and their community.
Talking about a confidence arrangements, Mithadar SHO Syeda Ghzala, who was benefaction during a temple, pronounced that they have enforced despotic checking during a opening while all drivers have been asked to park their cars on roads together to a temple. Eighty military officers have been deployed for a confidence outward a church as well.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 1st , 2016.
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