Download Issue 5, Nov 2020: English Edition ; Dutch Edition Dear all, We are happy to share the fifth issue of OMRISE Magazine with you. We are also delighted to inform you that now all OMRISE magazine content can be accessed online via our website: https://magazine.omrise.org This is a number especially created for the occasion of The […]
Spirituality Issue 5, 9-Nov-20 EN
Spirituality Magazine Issue 5, Nov 9, 2020
His Excellency, President of Suriname, C. Santokhi
On behalf of the entire Surinamese Government, I wish you and your family, in Suriname and all other Surinamese across the world, a Shubh Divali. On Saturday November 14th we will celebrate the Divali festival. As you know, festivals are an important aspect of life. They bring out the best in us and bring us […]
Prof. dr. Vinod Subramaniam, Rector Magnificus Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Shubh Diwali! Happy Deepavali! May the light drive away the darkness and enlighten us all. My earliest memories of Deepavali, or Diwali, are of waking up early in the morning on the day, of having my maternal grandmother give us a ceremonial oil bath, of dressing up in new clothes, of the lighting of brass […]
Mahālakṣmī-Stotra
Translated by Dr. Victor van Bijlert, Faculteit Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Praise of the great Goddess Lakṣmī. नमस्तेऽस्तु महामाये श्रीपीठे सुरपूजिते । शंखचक्रगदाहस्ते महालक्ष्मि नमोऽस्तु ते ||१|| namaste’stu mahāmāye śrīpīṭhe surapūjite / śaṃkhacakragadāhaste mahālakṣmi namo’stu te /1// 1.You are the great creative magic power (māyā); salutation to You, Who are the seat of […]
The Diyá as a vehicle to a conscious life
Prof. Dr. Sharda S. Nandram, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Nyenrode Business Universiteit I asked my 94-year-old father about his memories of the Divali festival. As so often, he has many. “I can still remember how women used to go from house to house before Divali to sell big baskets full of diyás (earth pots with […]
The Eternal Festival of Lights
Prof.em. Dr. Ir. Gerrit Broekstra (author), Milady A. Cardamone (translator) Like all traditional festivals, the Diwali ‘festival of lights’ takes place once each year, lasts a very short period of time, and is celebrated through rituals and traditions in the joyful environment of family and friends. In this year 2020 of the pandemic the Diwali […]
Divali Celebration: Life Management Lessons
Dr. Pawan Kumar Singh. Director Management Development Institute Gurgaon, Haryana, India Divali or Deepavali is a major Hindu festival of India that is now celebrated across the world by all with great enthusiasm. It is so much a festival of joy that Divali and Joyfulness may be taken as synonyms. The festival is celebrated on […]
Announcement of Divali celebration
Press Release Diwali Festival Amstelveen – live online on November 7, 2020 from 2 pm! Diwali Festival Amstelveen is being organized and celebrated for the 12th time! Only this year it will be celebrated slightly different than other years. The board of the Diwali Festival Amstelveen Foundation decided to cancel the live Diwali celebrations at […]
Link to Divali song by artist Raj Mohan
Song: ‘aaj divali’. Text, composition and song: Raj Mohan Divali message by Dr. Chinmay Pandya
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