Dr Gouri Kumra,
Clinical Gynecologist;
Spiritual / Creative Healer & Columnist
@ News365 Times
There comes a moment when illumination is no longer borrowed — it arises from within. When the lamp of understanding glows in the heart, no external Diya is required. That is the moment when the true Diwali dawns — not as a festival of lamps, but as a state of consciousness.
VISUALISATION WITHOUT DUALITY
To visualize beyond duality is to dissolve separation — between light and dark, masculine and feminine, self and cosmos. It is to see not two, but one — not opposition, but integration. True Diwali is not lit by oil or wick; it is kindled by awareness, maturity, and the merging of inner opposites.
When one no longer reacts to ancestral patterns or social expectations, when celebration becomes spontaneous rather than ceremonial, the mind transcends ritual.
“I do not wish to celebrate Deepawali as a reaction to tradition set by our ancestors. I do not need your presence, and your absence does not perturb me.”
I celebrate with my liberated, illuminated eyes — where every blink births a universe of light.
ALCHEMY OF DIVINE BALANCE
In the alchemical mirror, the self is seen as a perfect union of dual forces. The symbol at the center is the living belief that we all carry within us both the masculine and feminine demeanour — the Sun and the Moon, the Father and the Mother of creation.
“The Sun is Its Father; the Moon is Its Mother; the Wind hath carried it in his belly; its Nurse is the Earth.
This is the origin of all perfection in the whole world.”
– Tabula Smaragdina (Emerald Tablet of Hermes)
This is not mythology — it is metaphysics. The radiant crowned figure is the archetype of Divine Mind, the Universal Spirit ruling over the elements. The triple crown signifies dominion over spirit, soul, and body — the threefold architecture of existence.
In his left hand, the Sun — the active, assertive, radiant masculine.
In his right, the Moon — the receptive, reflective, intuitive feminine.
Together they symbolize the union of opposites, the balancing of light and shadow, mind and matter.
Beneath his feet lie two spheres:
– The red sphere, infused with Mars’ fiery Sulphur — the energy of creation.
– The white sphere, marked by Saturn’s Salt — the weight of limitation and form.
He stands upon both, mastering energy and matter, chaos and order.
Between them glows a green orb, the World Soul — the living pulse of Earth, the cosmic heart that breathes life into all things.
THE COSMIC CHALICE — THE WOMB OF CREATION
The entire vision rests upon a chalice, the vessel of life, the cosmic womb from which every element emerges and to which all returns. This chalice is the deepest symbol of Diwali — not a lamp that burns, but a cup that births.
When we pour our consciousness into this chalice, we realize: Light is not something we ignite — it is something we become.
CRYSTALLISED LIGHT, FLUID CONSCIOUSNESS
Deepawali, for me, is not in the flame — it is in the crystallised water that emits colour and light. It is the prism of the mind refracting inner wisdom into visible brilliance. Every drop of awareness, every particle of silence, becomes luminescent when touched by understanding.
CONCLUSION: THE INNER OCEAN
There are many rivers in the ocean — each with its current, its turbulence, its destiny. Yet when they merge, they lose their separateness.
So too with consciousness — when the masculine and feminine, the light and dark, the thinker and the dreamer unite — Diwali happens within.
No lamp. No ritual. No noise.
Just the pure glow of self-realisation — many rivers returning to one vast ocean of being.
That is the True Diwali.
That is illumination beyond duality.
