31/10/2021
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Oil lamps were a part of various traditions and cultures around the world, until electric lights became popular. The earliest known oil lamp can be dated back to the Chalcolithic Age, about 4500 to 3300 BC. Today, their use is limited to only a few homes, more often only for visual appeal.
Light is significant because of the way our instruments of vision are made. If our instruments of vision were made like, let’s say that of an owl, light wouldn’t be very valuable to us.
Today you have electric lights so you may wonder why a lamp. But imagine just a few hundred years ago, there was no possibility of doing anything indoors without a lamp. Historically, the lamp was an essential part of our homes because of two reasons. One, there were no electric lights. Two, homes were built from organic materials so people couldn’t afford to open up huge windows. Generally, the houses in ancient times were dark inside. Even today, have you seen that old homes in villages and slums are generally dark? So a lamp was kept even during the day, and a place of worship was created around it.
It is a part of tradition that to create the right kind of atmosphere, the
first thing that you do is light a lamp. Of course, because of all our
problems today, because our nails are long and polished, we can't do
this, so we use electric lights. But those of you who light a lamp, if
you simply be there around it, you will notice it makes a difference.
You don’t need to believe in any God. It need not even be dark, the
lamp need not be a visual aid, but do you notice it makes some kind
of a difference? This is because the moment you light a lamp, not
the flame itself but around the flame a certain etheric sphere will
naturally happen.
Where there is an etheric sphere, communication will be better. Did
you ever sit around a campfire in your life? If you did, you would have
seen that stories told around the campfire always have the maximum
impact on people. Have you noticed this? The storytellers of yore
understood this - stories told around the campfire are always the
most effective stories.
