Why did Buddhism vanish from India?

Diwali: Festival of Lights (Cali, Chi, NJ)

(Encyclopaedia Brittanica) Diwali (Dipa-wali) is one of the major religious festivals in Hinduism, Jainism, and Sikhism [not Buddhism], lasting for five days from the 13th day of the dark half of the lunar month Ashvina to the second day of the light half of the lunar month Karttika.

(The corresponding dates on the Gregorian calendar usually fall on late October and November). The name is derived from the Sanskrit term dipavali, meaning “row of lights.” The festival generally symbolizes the victory of light over darkness. More

(BAPS) Chicago, Illinois temple celebrates Diwali and Annakut

Los Angeles, California Diwali and Annakut Celebration

(BAPSChannel) Experience the lights, festivities, and joy of Diwali and Annakut at BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir on the outskirts of Los Angeles, For more details, visit: https://www.baps.org/News/2024/Diwali... #BAPS #BAPSDiwali #diwali #diwali2024 #festivaloflights #na50 #diwalicelebration #diwalifestival #losangeles

On the East Coast, there's the Robbinsville, New Jersey BAPS Temple

US Buddhist Sharon S. on The Moth (audio)

Who's the beautiful hippie on the left next to Dipa, Dipa's mom (Dipa Ma), and Jesus' brother?

We wondered about her weight until we met her

Sharon Salzberg is a pioneer in the field of Buddhist meditation, a world-renowned JuBu teacher and New York Times bestselling author.

She has played a crucial role [along with her colleagues and fellow travelers Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein] in bringing meditation and mindfulness to the West and into mainstream culture since 1974, when she first began teaching.

• AUDIO: The Art and Craft of Storytelling (The Moth)
• Voices of Insight Meditation (anthology edited by Salzberg)

Back in old Calcutta with Saint Dipa Ma

Salzberg is the co-founder of the first Western meditation center in the US: The Insight Meditation Society, in Barre, Massachusetts.

She has authored ten books, including the New York Times bestseller, Real Happiness, her initial work, Lovingkindness, and her 2017 release, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection.

She's a great teacher full of quotes.

Acclaimed for her down-to-earth teaching style, Salzberg offers a secular, modern approach to Buddhist Teachings (Dharma), making them instantly accessible.

She is a regular columnist for ON BEING, a contributor to the Huffington Post, and the host of her own podcast, THE METTA HOUR, with over 70 episodes. Learn more about all of these at sharonsalzberg.com.

• AUDIO: The Art and Craft of Storytelling (The Moth)

What about her weight?

In the world, is there Real Happiness to be found?

If you're like us, you may wonder about an attained person being obese. (How dare us acknowledge that as if it matters!)

We wondered about Sharon Salzberg's weight, which was an issue for us if not for her or anyone else. We went to meet her in person in Hollywood at the new (now defunct) InsightLA East on Melrose years ago. All we wanted to do was get an answer to a vexing question about the behavior of stream enterers and noble ones: Shouldn't their morality (sila) and conduct (karma) be perfect, unblemished, now spotless no matter how mottled it was beforehand?

Dr. Gabor Mate and Sharon Salzberg at the Living An Authentic Life Summit.

The body today is a reflection of the past.

She laughed, we laughed, what a silly question. (We have asked others, being so privileged in this life to having met about 21 noble ones and maybe even seven arhats).

There is a widespread belief, particularly in Theravada Buddhist countries, that sotapannas ("stream enterers," those persons who have entered the first stage of Buddhist enlightenment, which come in various grades according to The Path to Freedom).

• 

  The Stress-Disease Connection

  When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Dr. Gabor Maté (drgabormate.com) explains. It promotes healing, providing transformative insights into how disease can be the body’s way of saying no to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge. Can we literally die of loneliness? Is there a connection between the ability to express emotions and disease? Is there such a thing as a “cancer personality”? Drawing on scientific research and the author’s decades of experience as a practicing physician... If we ignore the body and keep going, eventually the body will say NO.

It is simply not true. We have seen this with our own eyes. The evidence that they are capable of being immoral (doing wrong things) is right in the Ratana Sutta ("Jewel Sutra," "Treasure Discourse"), one of the most widely chanted sutras and parittas in all of Theravada.

Sharon is our kalyana-mitta, noble friend.

But try to tell that to anyone, and all they will say is that that person must just not be one. The person CAN be one and slip up or choose to do wrong or do wrong by habit or do wrong unawares, but they cannot conceal the wrongdoing. (Even this is shaky because they can change the subject, not respond, play dumb, choose not to talk about it, so long as they've mumbled a confession or voiced one to someone else, when the text reads as if they are perfectly transparent, full of admission, and apologetic. This has not been our experience).

Who writes about faith but those who need it most?

Even, and this is shocking, an arhat (arahant, a fully enlightened person) is capable of breaking monastic rules. (This is important because, according to the tradition, one would pass away after attaining final liberation unless one could become a monastic and live in a sangha of moral people, a view widely accepted except for Dr. Daniel Ingram, a self-proclaimed arhat who is not a monk but is the author of the great work, Hardcore Dharma).

Surely, if such beings were perfect, the ones they are liable to break would not be specified in the Vinaya texts. What is true is that different types of enlightened beings, aryans, are not capable of breaking certain rules of the moral code, but to think that one is morally perfect at stream entry is a MYTH. It does not accord to reality.

Another belief is that an enlightened person cannot be mentally imbalanced, and this is likely true. But it's only true of arhats. If a person with a learning disability or worse were to awaken, that would all clear up. The evidence for this is the story of a simpleton monk, within whom the Buddha saw potential. So he gave him the simplest meditation of all -- to simply rub a clean white cloth with his clean hand.

In doing so, it is said, the cloth became discolored, and the monk realized impermanence (anicca) as his hand was wearing away, sweating, or became soiled, and its cells were rubbing off, staining the white cloth. As soon as he fully awakened, his previous mental incapacity was instantly cured. (To read the story, one gets the sense that retardation or other disability are like a spell, like when a person suffering from laryngitis and does not have a voice is asked something and answers perfectly. Someone notices and asks, "So you can talk now?" And the laryngitis is instantly back. This may be true with all kinds of illnesses, like they are illusions we bought into or powered by karma).

What's the point?

Are we "fat shaming"? What's our point? Maybe there's a glandular issue.

We may be immature and jerks, but we notice weight and other characteristics -- unlike our readers, who are all openminded, tolerant, accepting, celebratory, and pro-everything.

Others, nonreaders, might wonder how a person so advanced in meditation, having attained the noble path, could suffer an illness that we all regard as having to do with self-control and morality. Morality?  Yes. Kamesu-micchacara (usually translated as "sexual misconduct") actually means "SENSUAL misconduct," which includes gluttony, excess consumption, hedonism of the tongue's taste buds.

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We know, thanks to Dr. Gabor Mate, that childhood trauma -- which Salzberg suffered, which we suffered, which what American hasn't suffered, and we're said to be the lucky ones living on top of the world (when we know we have it pretty bad emotionally and psychologically inside the Empire) -- is at the root of addictions (see In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts) and illnesses (When the Body Says No).

So wouldn't a person at realization suddenly be healthy in mind and body? No, not necessarily. It might be so for arhats, but we wouldn't think so.

"We can always begin again" - Sharon Salzberg

Now, there's no problem with it if one knows that   At least we used to. We judge people who are heavy. We are heavy.

A beautiful story Sharon told us as we sat with her trying to whisper our questions but then attracted a group of people afraid to ask their own tough questions was about how she came to write Lovingkindness. We might have pointed out how "real" and "honest" she was when she spoke, not at all the "Metta Booster" we thought she would be. She smiled broadly because she had heard this before and said something like, "Do you think people who write books about metta do it because they have so much metta?"

We all laughed again. We did think that before we thought about it. What could be further from the truth? We write books about what we need to learn most. That's what we teach. This website should be called "Dummy Quarterly," because, you see, we're dumb.

The way of wisdom is approaching the wise.

We're trying to be transcendentally wise and liberated. We are not saying we're there only that we're going. Going where? Wisdomville, beyond the Beyond. But we won't be getting there without asking a lot of dumb questions first. The only "dumb" question is the one that doesn't get asked (or the one so weighed down with assumptions that it boggles the mind).

If we've done wrong or offended readers in talking about this, we can always begin again. It's back to the mat and noble silence. We're the fortunate ones because we met and fell in love with Sharon Salzberg, who may not have been born a loving and faith-filled person but sure is one now. 😍😇😂

• Fall in love with her, too: The Best of Sharon Salzberg: Life, Teachings, Quotes, and Books (Awaken)
• Emily Ratajkowski draws backlash over 'fatphobic' photoshoot (usatoday.com)
• AUDIO: The Art and Craft of Storytelling (The Moth)

Sharon Salzberg IMS book launch (10/10)

SharonSalzberg.com (Insight Meditation Society • BOOK CLUB • Virtual Book Launch); Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What and where is IMS? It's the Insight Meditation Society of Barre, Mass. Event is online.

Who better to lead us than someone who found her way all the way to success?

Salzberg fan Mrs. Jack Kornfield (aka Trudy Goodman) is the founder of InsightLA.org

Finding Your Way: Meditations, Thoughts, and Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life is a gorgeous little gift book that pairs full-color illustrations with short essays centered around Sharon Salzberg’s most popular sayings.

• “Do the good that is in front of you.”
• “Your heart is big enough for everyone and everything.”
• “We need courage to learn from our past and not live in it.”
• “We can always begin again [resetting our mindfulness of this moment after the mind has wandered away during sitting meditation].”
• FREE EVENT: Insight Meditation Society • BOOK CLUB • Virtual Book Launch - Sharon Salzberg (Oct. 10, 2023)
• Event Time Announcer - IMS Book Club: Finding Your Way - Meditations, Thoughts, and Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life (timeanddate.com)

This book will inspire and remind readers how much we are truly capable of. For someone who has never meditated, it is a perfect introduction to the teaching of American Theravada Buddhist and successful insight meditator Sharon Salzberg, whose voice has inspired a generation of seekers.

It's possible to meditate because...

Early life of Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldstein

Sharon Salzberg, Joseph Goldsten (BHNN); Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds), Wisdom Quarterly

Young hippie meditators once surrounded a little enlightened woman in Calcutta: Dipa Ma

The Early Life of Sharon Salzberg and Joseph Goldstein

(Be Here Now Network) Metta Hour Podcast's Episode 199 premiered Feb. 1, 2023. Sharon Salzberg (whose Real Happiness Meditation Challenge runs all of February) is on the Metta Hour Podcast with her legendary friend Joseph Goldstein. Both are interviewed by Lily Cushman, recalling their early lives.

They each share what drew them to the Buddhist path of meditation in the late 1960s and early 1970s and their initial years of Buddhist practice in the exotic East.

This podcast is being released in tandem with the Joseph Goldstein's Insight Hour Podcast.

Joseph Goldstein has been teaching meditation since 1974. He and Salzberg are co-founders of the Insight Meditation Society and the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, located in Barre, Massachusetts.

Goldstein is the author of numerous books, including Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening and Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom.

Dan Harris calls Goldstein “a key architect of the rise of mindfulness in our modern [American] society.” In this conversation, Goldstein shares about:

• what it was like growing up in the Catskills
• early encounters with death and loss
• studying philosophy at Columbia University
• living in New York City during his college years
• joining the Peace Corps and living in Thailand
• his first encounters with Buddhist monks
• the resonance of finding the spiritual path
• the ups and downs of his initial years of practice
• finding his teacher Anagarika Munindra [who was the teacher of famous Bangladeshi Buddhist teacher Dipa Ma of Calcutta/Kolkata]
• meeting Salzberg at her first mindfulness retreat with S.N. Goenka
• his experiences as more Westerners arrived in India
• the community that emerged out of the Goenka retreats
• grappling with his “body of steel” for many years
• the parallels of the evolution of his and her path

Sharon Salzberg shares about:

• the difficulty of her childhood
• her first encounter with Buddhist philosophy in college
• creating a study abroad program to take her to India
• receiving Chögyam Trungpa’s advice on where to learn meditation
• searching for meditation instruction across India as a young woman
• the scene at her first retreat led S.N. Goenka
• the difficulty of her first instruction being a 10-day retreat
• some themes of her initial meditation experiences
• learning how to navigate her inner life
• meeting Goldstein for the first time
• her and Goldstein’s different practice needs in their early years
• crafting a spiritual path before there was a model for that life in the West.

To learn more about Joseph Goldstein’s work, visit dharma.org/joseph. His teachings can also be found on the Ten Percent Happier app, the Waking Up with Sam Harris app and on the Dharma Seed app.

• The Early Life of Sharon Salzberg & Joseph Goldstein (Metta Hour Podcast Ep. 199)
• The Early Life of Sharon Salzberg & Joseph Goldstein (Metta Hour Podcast Ep. 199, beherenownetwork.com)
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Be Here Now Network podcasts, courses, and articles help us live life in balance. It's heart-centered wisdom from Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg, Krishna Das, and many more. Get a free guided meditation from Sharon Salzberg when first signing up at: beherenownetwork.com

When Sharon Salzberg came back from India

Sharon Salzberg, Festival of Faiths 2018; Ashley Wells, Crystal Q. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

New York Jewish-Buddhist hippies hanging out in Calcutta, India with Dipa Ma

"Our relationship with pain and suffering" | Sharon Salzberg

(Festival of Faiths) Aug. 22, 2018. #FOF2018 From the session: "Dark Nights of the Soul" | 2018 Festival of Faiths:

• Real Happiness Meditation Challenge 2023 (Sharon Salzberg)

Dipa Ma (Amy Schmidt)

American Theravada (Vipassana) Buddhist Sharon Salzberg is a central figure in the field of mindfulness and loving-kindness meditation, a world-renowned teacher, and a New York Times bestselling author.

She has played a crucial role in bringing meditation and mindfulness practices to the West [from India] and into mainstream culture since 1974. She is co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and the author of ten books, including Real Love.

She offers a secular, modern approach to Buddhist teachings, making them readily accessible. "World religions teach us that suffering is part of the human condition. Our attempts to avoid suffering prevent us from experiencing essential insights and awareness that lead to spiritual healing and growth.

Knee Deep in Grace

"Individually and collectively, we must step into the shadows, sit with our fears, and embrace vulnerability. Spiritual teachings and practices help us transform the darkness into light, the fallow to the fertile, and awaken a deep level of awareness and accountability.

"Through these teachings, can we come to confront our shortcomings and broken behaviors? How can we face America’s most egregious acts, including genocide and slavery? How can feminine insight hold space for the darkness so that we can be transformed?"

THE 23RD ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF FAITHS, "Sacred Insight - Feminine Wisdom" is a five-day nationally acclaimed multi-faith celebration of music, poetry, art, film, and dialogue with spiritual leaders, practitioners, and teachers. April 24-28, 2018 | Louisville, Kentucky. More info: festivaloffaiths.org

The 2018 Festival explores practices, teachings, and insight rooted in Feminine wisdom. Speakers and artists from diverse backgrounds and faith traditions examine the Feminine aspects of God, non-dual thinking, the wisdom of the natural world, suffering, healing, emotional intelligence, and creativity.

The Festival seeks to offer deeper insight into the Sacred Feminine in all of us. Join the Conversation. Join the Movement. #FOF2018

"One of America's Top 8 Spiritual Travel Destinations."

- Huffington Post

Tricycle: Goldstein, Kornfield, Salzberg

World famous meditators Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, Sharon Salzberg on decades of Dharma practice

(Tricycle) April 21, 2021. Joseph Goldstein, Jack Kornfield, and Sharon Salzberg were among the first Western teachers to bring insight meditation practice to the United States in the 1970s.

Tricycle is an American Buddhist magazine.

In 1976 they co-founded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, one of the first meditation retreat centers in the Americas.

On the occasion of the center’s 45th anniversary, these three celebrated teachers come together for a live discussion with Tricycle Editor-in-Chief James Shaheen.

This conversation was recorded on April 8, 2021, as a part of Tricycle's 30th Anniversary celebration —a monthlong series of donation-based virtual events celebrating 30 years of Dharma in the West.

Learn more and sign up today at tricycle.org/30th-anniversary. LINKS: 30th Anniversary: tricycle.org/30th-anniversary. Tricycle: tricycle.org, facebook.com/tricyclemag, twitter.com/tricyclemag, instagram.com/tricyclemag.

No person is an island... But be one (sutra)

Maurice O'Connell Walshe (trans.), Attadipa Sutra: "An Island to Oneself" (SN 22.43, PTS: S iii 42, CDB i 882), 2007, title based on the Pali Text Society (Feer) edition; Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

Let the Dharma be your guide.

"Meditators, be lamps/islands unto yourselves [1], be your own guide/refuge, having no other; let the Dharma be an island and a guide to you, having no other.

"Those who are islands/lamps unto themselves... should investigate to the very heart of things [2]: 'What is the source of disappointment, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair? How do they arise?' [What is their cause and origin?]

"Here, meditators, the uninstructed ordinary worldling [continued as in SN 22.7]. Change occurs in this person's body, and it becomes different. On account of this change and difference, disappointment, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair arise.

• [The same is said with regard to "feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness."]

"But seeing [3] the body's impermanence, its changeability, its wasting away [4], its ceasing, one says, 'Formerly, as now, all bodies were impermanent, disappointing (unsatisfactory), and subject to change.'

"Thus, seeing this as it really is, with deep insight, one abandons all disappointment, lamentation, pain, grief, and despair. One is not worried at their abandonment but, unworried, lives at ease. And thus living at ease one is said to be 'assuredly delivered' [5]."

• [The same is said with regard to "feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness."]

NOTES

1. Atta-dipa: Dipa in Pali means both "island" (Sanskrit dvipa) and "lamp" (Sanskrit dipa), but the meaning "island" is well established here. The "self" referred to is, of course, the unmetaphysical pronoun "oneself": cf. SN 3.8, n. 1.

2. It is necessary to withdraw, to be "an island unto oneself," at least for a time (as any meditator knows), not for "selfish" reasons but precisely in order to make this profound introspective investigation and breakthrough in insight. In another sense, Buddhism would of course agree with John Donne who said, "No man is an island."

3. As Woodward remarks in KS [The Book of the Kindred Sayings, translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, Vol. III, PTS 1924], one would expect to find here the words that he inserts in the text: "The well-taught Ariyan disciple," as in many passages. If one, in fact, sees these things and reflects as is said in the text, one will cease to be an ordinary "worldling." [Instead, there will be a "change of lineage" (gotrabhu), making one a "noble one," someone who has gained at least the first stage of enlightenment that culminates in full enlightenment or arhatship.]

4. Viraga is elsewhere translated as "dispassion" (SN 12.16, n. 2) and also has this meaning.

5. Tadanganibbuto means rather more than Woodward's "one who is rid of all that."

• See "The Last Days of the Buddha" sutra (DN 16)

SUTRA: To be islands unto ourselves

Maurice O'Connell Walshe (trans.), Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly, Attadipa Sutra, "An Island to Oneself" from the Pali Text Society's Feer edition (SN 22.43)

"Meditators, be islands unto yourselves [1]; be your own guide, having no other.

• 1. Atta-dipa: Atta = "self." Dipa (Sanskrit dvipa) = "island" and "lamp." "Island" is well-established in this context, and "self" is the pronoun "oneself" (cf. SN 3.8, n. 1).

"Let the Dharma be an island and a guide to you, having no other.

"Those who are islands unto themselves... investigate to the very heart of things [2]:

2. It is necessary to withdraw, to be "an island to unto oneself," at least for a time (as any meditator knows), not because it is "selfish" but precisely to make a profound introspective investigation. Buddhists in another sense would, of course, agree with John Donne that "No man is an island."

"'What is the source [origin] of disappointment, lamenting, pain, grief, and despair? How do they arise?'

"Here, meditators, the ordinary uninstructed worldling… [continued as in SN 22.7].

"I would be an island unto myself!" (Karana).

"Change occurs in this person's body (form), and it becomes different. On account of this change and difference, disappointment, crying, pain, grief, and despair arise.

[The same with feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness, which with form are the Five Aggregates clung to as self].

"But seeing [3] the body's impermanence, its changeability, its waning [4], its ceasing, one says, 'Formerly, as now, all bodies were impermanent and unsatisfactory and subject to change.'

3. Woodward remarks (in the Book of the Kindred Sayings, the PTS translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, Vol. III, 1924) that one would expect to find here the words he inserts in the text: "The well-taught [noble] disciple," as in many passages. For if one in fact directly sees these things and reflects on them as stated in the text, one will cease to be an ordinary uninstructed "worldling" and become a noble (any person in the stages of enlightenment) disciple.

4. Viraga, "dispassion" (SN 12.16, n. 2), is waning.

California's remote San Nicolas Island

"Thus, seeing this as it really is, with full insight, one abandons all disappointment, lamenting, pain, grief, and despair.

"One is not worried at their abandonment, but unworried lives at ease, and thus living at ease one is said to be 'assuredly delivered'" [5]. [The same with feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness].

5. Tadanganibbuto means rather more than Woodward's "one who is rid of all that."

The greatest country state in the world also has its own chain of Channel Islands (wiki).

Diwali: India's 5-day Festival of Lights (video)

Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; WFI; Mr. India; Tech V


Diwali: The Festival of Lights

(Wild Films India) Diwali is one of the biggest, brightest, and most important festivals in India. Diwali is popularly known as the "Festival of Lights." The celebration of the "victory of good over evil" refers to the light of higher knowledge dispelling ignorance.

Although the story behind Diwali and the manner of it celebration differs greatly depending on the region, the essence of the festival remains the same:  the celebration of life, its enjoyment, and its goodness.

The Hindi word Diwali is derived from the Sanskrit term Deepavali, which translates as "rows of lamps." Based on the Hindu lunar calendar, Diwali falls between October and November on an Amavasya or "moonless night." The festival is associated with the legend of the Hindu god Ram's return to his kingdom, Ayodhya, after 14 years in exile.

The demon-king Ravan of Lanka had abducted Lord Ram's consort Sita only to invite his own death as a result. Lord Ram, along with his brother Laxman and an army of monkeys, defeated then killed the demon king and returned to the kingdom with Sita.

According to mythology the people of Ayodhya lit up clay lamps known as diyas to welcome him on his return from exile.

Diwali is a five-day affair and kicks off on the first day with Dhanteras. Dhan means "wealth," hence this day is considered auspicious for buying items related to prosperity like utensils or gold. Vijay and his family also plan to buy something in keeping with the customs of Dhanteras.

The day after Dhanteras is known as Narak Chaudas or Choti Diwali. In short, the second day is Diwali on a smaller scale, with fewer rituals. Hindus get up before dawn, clean their houses, take a fragrant bath, and dress up in festive clothes. Vijay and his family follow suit; they decorate their house with much excitement to invite Goddess Lakshmi. The whole family rejoices on the occasion by singing aartis or religious hymns while they take part in the puja or devotional ritual.

The third day of the festival, known as Lakshmi Puja, is the main Diwali celebration. This day is devoted to Goddess Lakshmi (Laxmi), the goddess of wealth and Lord Ganesh, the lord of auspicious beginnings and the remover of obstacles.  Devotees worship them seeking prosperity and wealth.

Govardhan Puja is the fourth day of the Diwali festival. In some parts of India this day is also known as Annakoot. Legend says that Lord Indra (Sakka), the Hindu god of rain and the king of the gods in Buddhism, once got angry with the people of the land of Gokul, the birthplace of Lord Krishna. To punish the villagers, the rain god poured endless rain, flooding the village. However, Lord Krishna came to the rescue of the village and sheltered the villagers under Govardhan Hill by lifting the entire hill onto his little finger, thereby saving the villagers and their livestock. Since then this day is celebrated to thank Lord Krishna.

This day is also known as Padwa in some parts of the country when people visit friends and family with gifts and goodies. Vijay's family has a tradition celebrating this day: The women of the family and neighborhood make a cow dung hillock to perform the day's ritual. The hillock is built symbolizing Govardhan Hill then decorated with flowers and other elements. The men pay obeisance to this symbolic hillock by circling around it and singing religious songs. Vijay and Vishal join the prayers.

Bhai Dooj marks the end of the five days of Diwali. The festival of lights has so many rituals and traditions that it is also called the festival of sweets, gifts, fireworks, and family.

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Diwali 2019, date and time: 5 days of Diwali celebration

(Technical Vichar, 1/26/19) This video is about:

1. Diwali 2019 date and time

2. Deepavali 2019 date and time

3. Dhanteras 2019 date

4. Kali Puja 2019

5. Bhaiya Dooj 2019

Diwali, also called Deepavali, is the most famous festival in India. It is five days of festivities that begins on Dhanteras and ends on Bhaiya Dooj.

Deepawali

• Day 1: Oct. 25, 2019: Govastsa Dvadashi, Vasu Baras, Dhantrayodashi, Dhanteras, Dhanvantari Trayodashi
• Day 2: 10/26/19, Yama Deepam, Kali Chaudas, Hanuman Puja, Kali Puja
• Day 3: 10/27/19, Narak Chaturdashi, Tamil Deepavali, Lakshmi Puja, Diwali, Kedar Gauri Vrat, Chopda Puja
• Day 4: 10/28/19, Diwali Snan, Deewali Dev Puja, Govardhan Puja, Annakut, Bali Partipada, Dyuta Krida
• Day 5: 10/29/19, Gujarat New Year, Bhaiya Dooj, Bhau Beej, Yama Dwitiya
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