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HAPPY DIWALI RAGHUVANSHI 2023 - 2024
- all our sisters and brothers of every the citizens of Ayodhya to join hands in
race, religion, color, culture and even bringing about the new world order. In
every species - are ailing, as well. We the same way, if we are truly going to
do everything for our children, but if we celebrate Diwali, we must be prepared to
don’t provide them an earth with clean join our hands and create a world in which
water, air and soil, everything else will be we bring back health to our trees and
meaningless. planet. Let’s organize riverside clean ups
and tree plantations to celebrate Diwali
Our beautiful spiritual culture prays for and all of our special occasions. Let’s
and to Nature - our atmosphere, our pledge to end our use of single-use plastic
rivers, our mountains and our plants. We and become truly conscious consumers.
must be sure to take care of that same Let us, together, usher in an era of a green
nature! We must remember that one of the economy, rather than a greed economy.
greatest gifts of abundance and prosperity
we have been given is our Mother Nature I extend my warmest blessings to the
and our Mother Earth, both of whom Hindu community in London. While
provide us with everything we need. All Diwali is a festival of light, victory, and
the water, the food, the sunshine, the prosperity, this year let it also be a
oxygen, the vitamins and minerals in the festival of awareness, responsibility, and
soil – everything at all that we need for reverence for our Mother Earth and the
our life is provided abundantly through boundless blessings of Mother Nature.
Mother Earth and Mother Nature. As Diwali’s lights beckon, remember, our
Earth too was once radiant with pristine
Sadly, we have learned that we are the beauty. Our dharma, our sacred duty, is to
problem for Mother Earth and Mother ensure that its light never diminishes. This
Nature. When so many nations went under Diwali, let’s pledge to tread gently, love
lockdown during the Covid outbreak, deeply, and live in a way that honours the
Mother Earth healed. The air was cleaner, sacred interdependence of all life.
water was cleaner, carbon emissions were
down. In Haridwar and Rishikesh we saw May your Diwali be blessed with
elephants coming and bathing in Mother enlightenment, not just of the mind and
Ganga! Nature became rejuvenated. soul, but of actions that echo with respect
Blue skies, clean flowing water. When for Mother Earth and Mother Nature.
we started opening up doors again, the
pollution and destruction returned. The
problem is us. So we must be the solution.
With deepest love and blessings,
Just as Lord Rama, with devotion and In the service of God and Humanity,
righteousness, vanquished the darkness
of ignorance, ego and illusion of the
10-headed demon king Ravana, we too
are called upon to dispel the darkness
of environmental neglect and ecological Swami Chidanand Saraswati
imbalance. We must be prepared to work swamiji@parmarth.com
toward creating Rama Rajya. Rama did not
simply wave a magic wand and create a www.PujyaSwamiji.org & www.Parmarth.org
paradise on Earth. Rather He called upon
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