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DIWALI What goes through your mind when you hear the word

DIWALI • Outcomes: • All must understand the importance of light in life • Most should learn why Diwali is celebrated • Some could learn how religious festivals bear different meanings to different people

DIWALI • • • BIG PICTURE Light as define by science Light as define by religion light as define in Hinduism

DIWALI • • KEYWORD: Deepali, Deepavali Diwali • Diva or deeya: lamp,

DIWALI • Light has two ways of being described analysed in science: • There is the "particle" theory, expressed in part by the word photon. • There is the "wave" theory, expressed by the term light wave.

DIWALI • So: • If light is a wave then it can go through things without alteration • If light is a particle then it could be quantified: contained

DIWALI • Using these principles today we have TV screens, projectors, mobile phones, laptops • paintings of high value…etc. . • Light empowers human being to take control of the environment

DIWALI Activity 1: List 10 things we could not do as human being if we did not have lights!

DIWALI • Which one do you think is the most important.

DIWALI • All religions talk about light and compare it to God

DIWALI • Qur'an (24: 35). "Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth. . . "

DIWALI • Proverbs 6: 23. : A mitzvah is a lamp, “and Torah is light

DIWALI • Granth Sahib: God, the All. Pervading Divine Spirit, the Divine Light:

DIWALI • Bible 1 john 1: 5 : God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

DIWALI • . When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one passes in darkness, he returns. "

DIWALI My question remains: What goes through your mind when you hear the word light

DIWALI • The Diwali Celebrations focuses on lights and lamps, particularly traditional dīpa or deeya (earthen lamp, as illustrated) Light Earthen vessels

DIWALI • What goes through your mind when you hear the word: • Lights!: • Religious people will say if light is a wave it is the wave of God: it goes through everything. It pervades the universe • If light is a particle then it could be contained…wonderful to have earthen vessels containing lights

DIWALI • The light of God is in the whole universe, it is this light that make us living being. This light we can give and share without dying, this light we can use to evolve and become better… • This light bring us together as one community, the community of human beings… So we celebrate the mystery of ourselves, the mystery of who we are and ought to be , we celebrate diwali

DIWALI • Can you write a short poem about the importance of light for Humankind

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