HI peeps,
Today is Diwali which basically is a celebration of a festival of light.
Its also linked to New Year in the Hindu calendar.
Dont worry, not turing this into a mass religious campaign! Just spreading some love from a different angle of the world.
Have a great day and year ahead!
Happy Diwali Jenson. Can you tell us about some of the traditions associated with the festival? I've just seen small bits on telly.
Warmest wishes for the coming year for everyone. 
Happy Diwali to you too :)
Happy Diwali Jenson! :)
rose hip wrote:
Happy Diwali Jenson. Can you tell us about some of the traditions associated with the festival? I've just seen small bits on telly.
Warmest wishes for the coming year for everyone. 
Sure thiing - though I'm no expert!
Diwali is a festival of light and prosperity. Tradintionally in homes that celebrate, they will be filled with lights and candles and bright colours. The celebration is honour of one of the Gods we believe in - (in Hnduism there is a God for everyhting!) and this time it is the Goddess Lakshmi who is the Goddess of wealth and prosperity. So homes are brightyl lit up and paryers done to invite the Goddess to your house to bless you with wealth and proeperity. Of course money isnt everything, but this isnt only about financial wealth.
I guess it is similar to the Passover in some sense, in terms of signifying your house and family, where the Jews had to mae an offering and mark there dorr lintels with the blood of the offering for spirit to 'pass over' their house.
It is also believed to be the Hindu New Year, which starts tomorrow I think. Tommorrow ,traditionally siblings and family wil get together and brothers will renew their bond with their sisters promising to look after them and voce versa. This is obviously a tradition now dating back to when women wouldnt work and be independant and this promise of looking after the sister was in the event that the sisters husband died for example, the brother would look after her and her family as his own.
From a religious/traditional aspect, thats all I know.
From a more modern day aspect it is a celebration, enjoyed with family and frends, lots of food and fireworks and gifts. So similar to Christmas and and pretty much any other religous festival.
If you fancy a weekend break to a massive carnival type atmosphere where people are partying in the streets all night long this weekend, then hop on a flight to Bombay or anywhere in India and absorb the celebrations!
Happy Diwali Jenson and thanks for that interesting insight into a festival that I'd heard of but didn't really know very much about :)
Happy Diwali to all who celebrate it.
I remember the lead up to this during work experience the kids at the Nursery were so excited many were going on planes to visit family they had not seen in the last year or at all.
The parents bought sweets and cakes in on the last day before they flew off and they tasted amazing they were handmade.
Just Jenson wrote:
rose hip wrote:
Happy Diwali Jenson. Can you tell us about some of the traditions associated with the festival? I've just seen small bits on telly.
Warmest wishes for the coming year for everyone. 
Sure thiing - though I'm no expert!
Diwali is a festival of light and prosperity. Tradintionally in homes that celebrate, they will be filled with lights and candles and bright colours. The celebration is honour of one of the Gods we believe in - (in Hnduism there is a God for everyhting!) and this time it is the Goddess Lakshmi who is the Goddess of wealth and prosperity. So homes are brightyl lit up and paryers done to invite the Goddess to your house to bless you with wealth and proeperity. Of course money isnt everything, but this isnt only about financial wealth.
I guess it is similar to the Passover in some sense, in terms of signifying your house and family, where the Jews had to mae an offering and mark there dorr lintels with the blood of the offering for spirit to 'pass over' their house.
It is also believed to be the Hindu New Year, which starts tomorrow I think. Tommorrow ,traditionally siblings and family wil get together and brothers will renew their bond with their sisters promising to look after them and voce versa. This is obviously a tradition now dating back to when women wouldnt work and be independant and this promise of looking after the sister was in the event that the sisters husband died for example, the brother would look after her and her family as his own.
From a religious/traditional aspect, thats all I know.
From a more modern day aspect it is a celebration, enjoyed with family and frends, lots of food and fireworks and gifts. So similar to Christmas and and pretty much any other religous festival.
If you fancy a weekend break to a massive carnival type atmosphere where people are partying in the streets all night long this weekend, then hop on a flight to Bombay or anywhere in India and absorb the celebrations!
Thanks for the info, I must say I'd never heard of this one before but it sounds like a lovely way to celebrate! Happy Diwali :)
Happy DIwali. My friends celebrated it last year by going for a Chinese rather than tradition Hindu food. It made me laugh. They said the eat 'normal' food all year so they wanted something special to mark there celebration. X
Happy Diwali to everyone who is celebrating 
Yep the fireworks have been going off since Thursday here in Birmingham. We've got used to waking at all hours of the night.
Black_Magic wrote:
Diwali is a festival of light and prosperity. Tradintionally in homes that celebrate, they will be filled with lights and candles and bright colours. The celebration is honour of one of the Gods we believe in - (in Hnduism there is a God for everyhting!) and this time it is the Goddess Lakshmi who is the Goddess of wealth and prosperity.
I named my iPod Lakshmi - I bought it when I had money burning a hole in my pocket!
Hinduism is a fascinating religion, I loved learing about it in Religious Education at school. I love how there is a God /Goddess for wealth, destruction etc.
I used to love learning about all religions at school, though I paid least attention to hinduism as a child at school. Probably because my relatives took it seriously (uncles, aunts, grandparents etc) that my cousins and I decided to take no interest thinking it was 'sad' to do so. Funny how you grow up and become your parents!
Back round again for 2015!
Happy Diwali to those celebrating! And to those who aren't you may as well join in and order a curry tonight !
Happy Diwali Jenson hope your new year brings you everything you wish for.
Happy diwali Jenson 🎉🎆🎊🎇
Love this thread! Happy Diwali x
Happy Diwali :) x
Happy Diwali lovely x