Celebrate Diwali in Switzerland

Diwali Festival of Lights - Celebrating with Fireworks

Every year a special festival takes place in Hinduism: the Diwali festival. In terms of its spiritual significance, it most closely resembles Christmas in this country - in northern India, the festival is also New Year's Day.

Diwali translates as "the ranks of enlightened lamps". Streets, shops and private houses are decorated with oil lamps on this day and the night with fireworks turned into day. This part is more reminiscent of New Year's Eve. In northern India, the god Rama is honored at Divali. He returns to Diwali with Sita, his exiled wife, back to his hometown of Ayodhya.

In southern India, on the other hand, it is Krishna who kills evil in the form of Narakaasura and thus frees sixteen thousand women from captivity. In the state of Gujarat again Lakshmi is thought, the goddess of inner and outer wealth as the wife of Vishnu. Divali is her wedding day.

Fireworks and Diwali

Sparklers, small fireworks, suns, volcanoes - everything that enlightens brightly, sparks and stars conjures up are the most popular fireworks for the Diwalifest. It is simply about expressing joy, but with the necessary calm.