Significance of Diwali Days

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Diwali is festival of lights held over seven days from the 11th day of the lunar month of Kartik to the seventeenth day. 

People wish each other the best of health, wealth, prosperity and well being during the celebrities.

Names of the festival days are:

Rama Ekadashi

Vasu Baras

Dhana Tryodashi

Narak Chathurdashi

Laxmi Poojan

Bali Pratipada and

Bhaubeej Dwitiya

The significance of each of the days is now mentioned.

Rama Ekadashi : People keep fast on Rama Ekadashi to wash off sins of past acts.

Vasu Baras : Women keep fast on Vasu Baras and worship cows. They also perform puja for Lord Krishna and seek the blessings of the lord for the longevity and prosperity of their families.

Dhanatrayodashi : Dhantrayodashi is the first day of the five-day Diwali festivities. The popular belief is that on the day of Dhanteras, Dhanvantari and Goddess Lakshmi, who is worshipped for wealth and prosperity emerged during the churning of the celestial ocean.

Narak Chaturdashi : Narak chaturdashi is celebrated by lighting lights to welcome fore fathers to guide them and remove obstacles from their life.

Laxmi Poojan : Laxmi Poojan is held to honor Goddess Lakshmi to bring wealth and prosperity to the family in the future. People wear new traditional clothes and ornaments on this occasion.

Bali Pratipada : Bali Pratipada  commemorates the annual return of Mahabali to earth and the victory of Vamana – one of many creative incarnations of Vishnu to  mark the victory of Vishnu over Mahabali and all asuras.

Bhaubeej : Bhaubeej is celebrated when ladies invite their brothers to visit their place and prepare their beloved dishes for them. Sisters also pray to God for the well-being and longevity of their brothers against all the evils and bad fortune.

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Parents invite married ladies home so that they can participate in the Diwali festivities. It is also believed that they bring 'Laxmi - wealth, good fortune and prosperity' with them when they do so.

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There is also a tradition of Deep Daan during Kartik month, the lunar month in which Diwali is celebrated. Here is a short write up on significance of Deep Daan दीप दान.

Importance of lamp donation in Kartik

• It is said that the person who donates a Akhand lamp near Shrikeshav in the month of Kartik, becomes full of divine radiance.
• Those who light the lamps kept by others in the temple of Shri Hari in the month of Kartik, they do not have to suffer hell. It is said that a mouse had taken a rare human birth by lighting a lamp kept by others on Kartik Ekadashi.
• Donation of earth along with the ocean and donating millions of cows with calves is not even equal to a fraction of the sixteenth fraction of donating a shikhar lamp above the Vishnu temple. By donating a lamp in the Shikhar or Hari Mandir, the hundred-kul is saved. 
• Those who with devotion only visit the Jyoti-Deepti Vishnu temple in the month of Kartik, there is no hell in their family. 
• The gods also wish for the company of the person who donates lamps in the house of Vishnu. 
• In the month of Kartik, by lighting the temple of Vishnu with lamps, right in the game itself, he gains wealth, fame, fame and seven clans become holy. 
• Put ghee / sesame oil in an earthen lamp and light the lamp till Kartik Purnima, it will definitely benefit.