Friday, January 7, 2011

it's happend

Thailapuram, off Chengalpattu in Kanchipuram district (Tamilnadu, Bharat) 

          celebrated the Deepam Utsav as a social festival on November 21, 2010. Usually, lighting of lamps in every Hindu household marks the Deepam festival. The event was unique that day in many ways. The nation (represented by a huge map of undivided Hindusthan – Akhand Bharat - drawn on the open ground in the middle of the village) was the centre of the ceremony. Mud lamps (Diyas) with the wick and gingelly oil were placed all along the borders of the country in the map.  Every holy city inside the borders was indicated by a similar lamp each, with wick and oil. At the outset, functionaries of political parties – AIADMK, DMK, PMK, etc., - responded happily to the call of the organizers and lit a lamp each, positioned at each holy city inside `Hindusthan'.  So did the caste leaders of several castes one by one. All cities from Amarnath in the Himalayas via Ayodhya down to Kanyakumari in the south were lit by these leaders of the village. While a lamp wais lit in a holy city, the organizers narrated its cultural importance as well as the effectiveness of Hindu unity in that city. The climax of the Utsav was this: when the entire village lined up and began lighting the lamps on the borders of the nation, the political and caste leaders joined the people. The Utsav was organized by Swayamsevaks of RSS in the village.  As told to Team PANCHAAMRITAM by Shri G.Bhaktavatsalan, Saha Prant Prachrak , RSS, Uttar Tamilnadu.

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