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Diwali Festival: Embracing the Light Within Humanity

Explore the significance of light in Hinduism through science, religion, and culture. Understand why Diwali is celebrated and how it unites different religions. Celebrate the essence of light as a symbol of divinity and unity.

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Diwali Festival: Embracing the Light Within Humanity

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  1. DIWALI FESTIVAL OF LIGHT Hinduism in motion

  2. DIWALI lights

  3. DIWALI What goes through your mind when you hear the word

  4. DIWALI • Outcomes: • All must understand the importance of light in life • Most should learn why Diwali is celebrated • Some could learn how religious festivals bear different meanings to different people

  5. DIWALI • BIG PICTURE • Light as define by science • Light as define by religion • light as define in Hinduism

  6. DIWALI • KEYWORD: • Deepali, • Deepavali • Diwali • Diva or deeya: lamp,

  7. DIWALI • Light has two ways of being described and analysed in science: • There is the "particle" theory, expressed in part by the word photon. • There is the "wave" theory, expressed by the term light wave.

  8. DIWALI • So: • If light is a wave then it can go through things without alteration • If light is a particle then it could be quantified: contained

  9. DIWALI • Using these principles today we have TV screens, projectors, mobile phones, laptops • paintings of high value…etc.. • Light empowers human being to take control of the environment

  10. DIWALI Activity 1: List 10 things we could not do as human being if we did not have lights!

  11. DIWALI • Which one do you think is the most important.

  12. DIWALI • All religions talk about light and compare it to God

  13. DIWALI • Qur'an (24:35). "Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth . . . " Islam

  14. DIWALI • Proverbs 6:23. : A mitzvah is a lamp, “and Torah is light judaism

  15. DIWALI • Granth Sahib: God, the All-Pervading Divine Spirit, the Divine Light: Sikhism

  16. DIWALI • Bible 1 john 1:5 :God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. Christianity

  17. DIWALI • . When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns." Hinduism

  18. DIWALI My question remains: What goes through your mind when you hear the word light

  19. DIWALI • The Diwali Celebrations focuses on lights and lamps, particularly traditional dīpa or deeya (earthen lamp, as illustrated) Light Earthen vessels

  20. DIWALI • What goes through your mind when you hear the word: • Lights!: • Religious people will say if light is a wave it is the wave of God: it goes through everything . It pervades the universe • If light is a particle then it could be contained…wonderful to have earthen vessels containing lights

  21. DIWALI • The light of God is in the whole universe, it is this light that make us living being. This light we can give and share without dying, this light we can use to evolve and become better… • This light bring us together as one community, the community of human beings… So we celebrate the mystery of ourselves, the mystery of who we are and ought to be , we celebrate diwali

  22. DIWALI • Can you write a short poem about the importance of light for Humankind

  23. Happy DIWALI DIWALI

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