“Darkness does not come to light, light 🪔 has to go to darkness.”

Once, it so happened that Lord Krishna was standing in front of the mirror decorating himself. He was trying on different crowns on his head and putting on some fine jewelry while his charioteer waited outside with the chariot ready.

His charioteer waited and waited and thought to himself – usually, Krishna comes immediately, today he has still not come. So, out of curiosity, he went inside to find out if the program was still on, because Krishna was very unpredictable, anytime anything could change.

The charioteer saw Lord Krishna standing in front of the mirror admiring himself. He asked, “My dear Lord, tell me, why are you dressing up so much today. Where are we going?”

To charotied's astonishment, Lord Krishna said, “I am going to meet Duryodhana.”

The charioteer quipped, “You are dressing up so much to meet Duryodhana?”

Lord Krishna said, “He cannot see my inside, he can only appreciate my outside. So how I am dressed will impress him because he cannot see what is inside.”

Then the charioteer asked, “ Why are you going to Duryodhana? You should not go, he should come to you. This I cannot accept.”
He continued to say, “This is not fair. Look at your status and look at him! You are the Lord of the world. You should not go, let him come.”

Krishna turned back, looked at him, smiled and said, _“Darkness does not come to light, light 🪔 has to go to darkness to illuminate the path.”

May the coming festival of Deepavali illuminate us from within. While we all light our houses, lets spend some time today to light a few lamps inside us.

Light a lamp inside and let it burn the anger, jealousy, unwanted greed and desires. We should feel happy and contented with what we have been blessed with.

Let's pray that the act of lighting a lamp this Diwali may be seen as a great opportunity to light the lamp within ourselves as well.
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