{"id":2567,"date":"2012-11-13T14:34:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T18:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:10:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:10:18","slug":"a-beautiful-diwali-festival-greeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/a-beautiful-diwali-festival-greeting\/","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful Diwali Festival greeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received the most amazing and beautiful Diwali greeting from a member of a Facebook group I help moderate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/ceaogroup\/ \">Caribbean Entrepreneurs Association Online<\/a>. The group&#8217;s founder, Guru Dan, says this about the Hindu festival:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To those of you in this group who are not famaliar with the Divali (Diwali) festival of lights&#8230;today Hindus all over the world pay tribute to and honour the mother of mothers, Mahalakshmi, or Lakshmi Mata (Mother Lakshmi)&#8230;she is the Hindu goddess of wealth, prosperity (both material and spiritual), fortune, and the embodiment of beauty. The festivals of Diwali and Kojagiri Purnima are celebrated in her honour. To simplify it I think of the festival as a tribute and honour to mothers all around the globe&#8230;:)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vipul Tank posted this wonderful greeting (to me and all mothers)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-13-at-2.01.06-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-13-at-2.01.06-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Borrowed this photo from Paulo Coelho\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-11-13 at 2.01.06 PM\" width=\"390\" height=\"291\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-13-at-2.01.06-PM.jpg 390w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-shot-2012-11-13-at-2.01.06-PM-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would take a moment to greet you on auspicious occasion of Diwali. <\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;WISH U AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY HAPPY DIWALI &#038; HAPPY NEW YEAR&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>May This Diwali be as bright as ever.<br \/>\nMay this Diwali bring joy, health and wealth to you.<br \/>\nMay the festival of lights brighten up you and your near and dear ones lives.<br \/>\nMay this Diwali bring in u the most brightest and choicest happiness and love you have ever Wished for.<br \/>\nMay this Diwali bring you the utmost in peace and prosperity.<br \/>\nMay lights triumph over darkness.<br \/>\nMay peace transcend the earth.<br \/>\nMay the spirit of light illuminate the world.<br \/>\nMay the light that we celebrate at Diwali show us the way and lead us together on the path of peace and social harmony.<\/p>\n<p>May the festival of lights be the harbinger of joy and prosperity. <\/p>\n<p>As the holy occasion of Diwali is here and the atmosphere is filled with the spirit of mirth and love, here&#8217;s hoping this festival of beauty brings your way, bright sparkles of contentment, that stay with you through the days ahead. <\/p>\n<p>Wishing you all the success.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Vipul, thank you so very much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received the most amazing and beautiful Diwali greeting from a member of a Facebook group I help moderate Caribbean Entrepreneurs Association Online. The group&#8217;s founder, Guru Dan, says this about the Hindu festival: To those of you in this group who are not famaliar with the Divali (Diwali) festival of lights&#8230;today Hindus all over &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/a-beautiful-diwali-festival-greeting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A beautiful Diwali Festival greeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4374,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}