'Navaraatri' and Dasara festival days are meant for making our life
useful, fruitful, purposeful and meaningful. It is celebrated throughout
India and also world over where Indian reside. This has become one of the
great festivals due to the fact that it connects our day to day life of
acquiring knowledge and doing work for livelihood. Thus we worship Vidya devatha Saraswati, Sakti Devatha Parvati and Devatha of prosperity
Mahalakshmi. All the three factors; books, tools and money are respected
as divine in India through the three feminine devatha concepts.
In India and in sanaathana dharma divinity is attributed to males and
females with equal status. Thrimoorthies are directly connected with
thrisakthies as inseparable parts like wife and husbands. Mahavishnu +
Mahalakshmi; Brahma + Saraswathi; Siva + Sakti. (Prapancha pursha +
Prakruthi devi; Parabrahma + Mahaamaaya)
Thrimoorthies and thrisakthies are sankalpaas which are logically,
rationally and scientifically explainable divine concepts unlike merely
explaining something based on faith or beliefs. (remember concept of god
and concept of divinity are slightly different)
The Navaratri / dasara festivals play crucial role in our social,
spiritual, psychological, economical, industrial, commercial, and
anthropological life. We could use spirituality as applied spirituality
for achieving the above goals through bringing people from all walks of
life together for economic prosperity, social bondage, development of
arts, culture, music, dance, literary works and rituals like vidyaarambha,
commencement of new industrial ventures, investment, developments, and so
on.
Thus in India the spirituality is used as applied spirituality for making
the life in this world heavenly instead of thinking and praying for going
to an imaginary heaven outside this world after death in the name of god, god fearing activities and god pleasing activities.
SUGGESTION: IISH would like you to perform pooja of your books, tools,
computers, instruments, equipments, vehicles and work-tools. This is for
demonstrating our respect to knowledge, profession, work, and tools which
give us happiness through fetching livelihood.
Courtesy: Indian Institute of Scientific Heritage
Nandakumar |
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