Why we burst crackers during Diwali?
I am sure you have heard so many arguments about banning fire crackers during Diwali because they increase pollution level or you heard people saying that Diwali is festival of light, there no significance of bursting crackers
Is this really a truth, that there is no importance of bursting crackers, is it just a celebration act?
Let’s find out.
So, we always heard 2 types of arguments.
First argument we heard is about pollution, and animal safety but we will not discuss it as we know all the agenda and political biasness behind it, because nobody talks about this issue during other festival, when animal safety is actually threatened.
Second argument we heard is, Diwali being only festival of lights, there is no significance of bursting crackers.
Why do we celebrate Diwali?
Because the return of bhagwan Ram to Ayodhya, after 14 years of Vanwas.
When bhagwan return to Ayodhya after defeating Ravana, to celebrate the victory of light over darkness, people Ayodhya lite the earthen lamps.
Okay…
But no mention of fire crackers here.
Then why we burst crackers.
The answer is given by Adv. J Sai Deepak very beautifully
He said, if we think of events before and after the Diwali, we will find the answer
What comes before Diwali, the Shradha period, mahalay paksh or Pitru paksha and then comes Diwali, after Diwali there is Karthik mass.
So, what do we do in Pitru Paksha, we feed our ancestors,
The soul of ancestors come from heaven, and we are supposed to feed them,
Now they have come, after Pitru paksha ends they have to go back to the heaven,
Now to show them return path to heaven we have to perform a ritual, and scripture after scripture there is mention of this ritual called Akashdeepam
So, calling bursting firecracker merely act of celebration is not right, it is ritual.
You can regulate it, limit it, but you cannot totally ban it.
When you burn sparklers, do you think there is a word for it in SANSKRIT or do you think that sparklers did not exist when SANSKRIT existed? So, the word for it is “ULKA DANAM”. You will find reference to it in a scripture called “Kartik Mahatmya” and in multiple documents they have recorded this over and over and over again. Britishers have written, Indians have written, our scriptures says so. But we people don’t know it. If somebody had approached the Supreme court representing the rights of the Hindu community and other communities. There are N number of variants for Diwali. The SIKHS actually celebrated it as the “Bandi Chhor Divas” that has a specific history. The JAINS have a specific variant. Is it a COINCIDENCE that all these communities celebrate Diwali in one way or the other around the same period of time?
Surely, it’s not a coincidence. There must be something common to all of this. So, considering all of this, what does it tell you?
Your ignorance with respect to your own traditions is going to be used against you, to humiliate you, to shame you, to call you a patriarch, to call you a chauvinist, to call you what not, until a point comes where you would have decided to given up your identity altogether. Whatever is happening around you is not a struggle for resources, but is a struggle for identity.
