Deepavali - perhaps the main message of this pagan festival is to seek to God this: "Asatoma Sathgamaya, Thamaso Maa Jyothir Gamaya, Mrithyor Maa Amrutham Gamaya, Aum Shanti Shanti Shantihi". (Lead me from untruth to the truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality- Friday, October 20, 2006
Tamasoma Jyotirgamaya
Deepavali - perhaps the main message of this pagan festival is to seek to God this: "Asatoma Sathgamaya, Thamaso Maa Jyothir Gamaya, Mrithyor Maa Amrutham Gamaya, Aum Shanti Shanti Shantihi". (Lead me from untruth to the truth, from darkness to light, from death to immortality- 
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"pagan"??
Thats a lot healthier perspective towards Diwali. Happy diwali to you too !
side-note:
pagan indeed; so that we don't thank God, but instead reassert the God that is with us and in all that surrounds us :)
Kow, I thought we were pagans... people who didnt have a institutionalized, misdirected aim of God or nature. Sorry if its not the definition.
Anurag, way to go!
a more correct term for our belief-system could be pantheist, for the sake of classification.
But do we really want to differentiate ourselves from pagans, that way?
Oh c'mon Anurag, as a budding Buddhist you should be hinting towards monism. To hell with differentiation and classification!
It takes a hero to be a zero! ;)
@k-boy
This happens to be one my favorite slokas (among the really few I know :P)
i really didn't understand much of what you said.
for the part that I understood, I must tell ya' that 'pantheistic monism' is very well-known, even to the classificists ;) so i'm not sure what monism am i supposed to spread as a 'budding buddhist' :)
we might be Pagans in including
God and His Creation as a part of it.. But we surely are not treating them as equals..
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