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Diwali & Self Consciousness
here is no need of explanation of this festival of light of India.
However in brief, Deepavali or Diwali, the "festival of lights," is celebrated between mid-October and mid-November across the India.
Diwali is one of important festivals of the Hindu and is celebrated together with family by performing traditional activities in their homes. The celebration of Diwali has been unique and beautiful moment for the people of Chaibasa City. The city is full of natural beauties and people are quite friendly.
Being a cosmopolitan town, the Diwali have been celebrating by different religion with joy and enthusiasm in this city since long times.
It humbles me to be associated with a festival that goes back over 9 000 years. I also feel privileged and proud that our country is blessed with so much diversity and richness of cultures and traditions.
In both Christianity and Hinduism, we dedicate times of the year to the renewal of our lives and of our faith. We seek to reflect on what has gone before and to reconnect with the light which lies within us and which is at the heart of all that is. Christians know this as the Light of Light and can appreciate and share in the ways in which at Diwali you celebrate your awareness of the inner light. Together, and through the celebration of our festivals, we can increase our consciousness of the ways in which light can triumph over darkness and good over evil. We can recommit ourselves to be light in the world.

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