Deepavali, also known as Diwali, is a major Hindu festival celebrated in India that symbolizes the victory of light over darkness. It is celebrated through the lighting of oil lamps, fireworks, spending time with family, exchanging gifts, and worship. The festival commemorates events from Hindu mythology, including the return of Rama and Sita to Ayodhya after their exile and Sita's rescue from the demon king Ravana. While meant to symbolize light overcoming darkness, modern Deepavali celebrations have become increasingly noisy and polluting due to fireworks, putting humans, animals and the environment at risk of harm. There are calls for a more environmentally friendly "Green Diw

2. What is Deepavali?What is Deepavali?
• Diwali derived from the Sanskrit word Deepavali
Deepavali = Deep + Avali
Deep = light
Avali = a row
Diwali = Deepavali = Row of Light

3. DEEPAVALIDEEPAVALI
• One of the most common festival of IndiaOne of the most common festival of India
• Remove darkness and ignoranceRemove darkness and ignorance
• Bring in light and knowledgeBring in light and knowledge
• RangoliRangoli
• FireworksFireworks
• Family Get TogetherFamily Get Together
• New Colorful clothesNew Colorful clothes
• Distributing SweetsDistributing Sweets

4. Significance of LampSignificance of Lamp
• Light symbolizes knowledge
• Light is Lord Himself
• Light removes darkness that symbolizes
ignorance

5. Deepavali is a people
oriented festival when
enimities are
forgotten and families
and friends meet to
enjoy and establish a
world of closeness.
As the light from
within shines through,
the ignorance that
blinds us fades away!
Significance of Light

6. How is it celebrated?How is it celebrated?
• People light their houses with lots of little oil lampsPeople light their houses with lots of little oil lamps
• Oil lamp symbolizes our negative tendenciesOil lamp symbolizes our negative tendencies
• Wick symbolizes our egoWick symbolizes our ego
• Lighting of the lamp signifies, Burning of our ego.Lighting of the lamp signifies, Burning of our ego.
• Flame in the lamp burns upwards. This signifiesFlame in the lamp burns upwards. This signifies
– Acquire knowledge so as to take us towards higher idealsAcquire knowledge so as to take us towards higher ideals
• Special worships are done at home and templesSpecial worships are done at home and temples

8. FireworksFireworks

9. Exchanging sweets and giftsExchanging sweets and gifts

10. Lighting the pencil crackerLighting the pencil cracker Decorating the entrance of aDecorating the entrance of a
househouse
LightingLighting thethe lampslamps
OfferingOffering prayersprayers Dancing in front of crackersDancing in front of crackers MusicalMusical celebrationscelebrations

11. Diwali – What happens?Diwali – What happens?
Houses are cleaned and decorated with Rangoli
patterns. The patterns are placed on door steps to
welcome the Goddess Lakshmi

12. Small lamps are also lit all around the house called diyas.
This is to make sure that Lakshmi can see the houses and
visit them to bring good fortune to the family.

13. Goddess LakshmiGoddess Lakshmi
Lakshmi is very important to Hindu’s
They pray that Lakshmi will visit their family
and
bring them luck and happiness
Lakshmi holds a lotus flower which represents
beauty
The gold coins she has represent bringing
wealth to
Hindu’s
Lakshmi has four arms which represent the
four goals
in life as taught in the Hinduism faith.

14. Rama and SitaRama and Sita
Diwali celebrates the return of Rama and Sita
Prince Rama and Princess Sita are
married.
They were sent to live in the forest with
Rama’s brother Lakshman by their
stepmother as she wanted her son to be
King.
They are to stay away for 14 years!

15. Ravana, the ten headed demon heard
of Sita’s beauty and planned to kidnap
her.
By magic, he made a golden deer
appear.
Sita saw the deer and wanted to stroke
it but each time she got near the deer
moved.
Ravana had tricked Sita and the deer
led her to him so he kidnapped her
and took her to his island called
Lanka.

16. Rama and Lakshman searched for Sita
for many months.
Finally they asked Hanuman, king of the
monkey army for help as he could fly.
He found Sita imprisoned on the island of
Lanka.
Hanuman, Rama and Lakshman prepared
for battle as they knew Ravana would not
be pleased they had taken Sita.
It looked as though Ravana was going to win
until Rama got a special bow and arrow from
the gods and aimed it at Ravana. It shot
Ravana and the battle was won.

17. Rama and Sita decided to return home.
As it got dark, people lit diyas in their windows to show
them the way home.
Rama and Sita arrived home and everyone was happy to see them.
Every year people remember this story by celebrating Diwali and
lighting diyas inside their homes and fireworks outside.

18. Remember - “you and I can decide the future”Remember - “you and I can decide the future”
HAPPY GREEN DIWALIHAPPY GREEN DIWALI

19. Though Diwali is a festival
of lights symbolizing triumph
of good over evil, today like
many other festivals, Diwali
has become a festival of
noise and pollution.
Something common to the
festival of lights all over the
country is fire crackers. The rockets illuminating
the skies with multicolored bursts, the noisy sizzle of
fiery chakris (ground wheels), ear-deafening 'bombs'
and dazzling phooljhadis (sparklers)… etc.

20. The pain and
suffering infants
undergo during the
Diwali days is
unimaginable.
These little ones
have no way to express their
fear and pain of bearing with
the ear-deafening crackers and
other fireworks except the
language of cries and laments.
Worst still the flight of little
babies.

21. Do we know what must be going on in the minds
of the elderly, sick and the homebound during the
Diwali days? While the young and the strong will
be enjoying every bit of
celebration like bursting of
crackers, the elderly, sick and
the homebound must be
silently praying for God’s
strength to bear with the pain
and suffering. They have no
other way but to pray,
because, no one is in a mood to
listen to their pain and agony .

22. The act of bursting of
crackers itself if fraught
with dangers to
humans. Hundreds
of people, especially
youngsters get injured
in the process of
bursting crackers, and even deaths. Safdarjung Hospital has one of
the largest burn care facilities in India. This facility receives the largest
number of firecracker-related injury patients throughout the year.
However, it almost takes the form of an epidemic during Diwali. This
unit runs a special disaster management protocol around Diwali.

23. CatChing fire to theCatChing fire to the
fireCraCker shops is veryfireCraCker shops is very
Common. there are manyCommon. there are many
instanCes of loss of lifeinstanCes of loss of life
and limb due to the fireand limb due to the fire
aCCidents.aCCidents.

24. Diwali may be all about fireworks and fun for people,
but it's not the same for birds and animals. Dogs and
cats cower in fear as birds spend a sleepless nights on
their perches, with some even falling victim to the
rockets and air-borne firecrackers.

25. What about cows, sheep, buffalos, pigs etc? These
innocent animals contribute so much for human
beings. During the
Diwali days, these animals
suffer silently without even
able to express their fear
and pain. There are even
instances of death
of cows, buffalos etc when
they run helter skelter when
they hear the sound and
noise of loud crackers.

26. Fireworks not only harm humans and animals, but even Mother Earth
including trees, soil, water, air and so on. The fireworks get their
flamboyance from a variety of chemicals, many of which are toxic to
humans. From the gunpowder that fuels their flight to the metallic
compounds that color their explosions, fireworks often contain
carcinogenic or
hormone-disrupting
substances that can seep
into soil and water, not to
mention the
lung-clogging smoke they
release and plastic debris
they scatter.

27. Addition to the harmful
effects of bursting of
fireworks on humans,
animals and Mother Earth,
this industry also perpetuates
social evils like child labour.
For example – Sivakasi in
Tamil Nadu state, about
45,000-50,000 children are
employed in the fireworks industry. These children earn about 15-
18 rupees a day on piece-rates. When an inspector visits a
factory, child workers are bundled into store-rooms and sheds.

28. Besides all the above harm done due to the burstingBesides all the above harm done due to the bursting
of firecrackers, hundreds of crores of rupees areof firecrackers, hundreds of crores of rupees are
splurged on crackers. Are we doing justice to oursplurged on crackers. Are we doing justice to our
Motherland and Mother Earth?Motherland and Mother Earth?

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