The holy Karthigai Deepam festival was recently observed with devotion by Hindus in both Temples and homes in the north and east.

Hindu devotees lit lamps and observed the religious event. The lamp implies a great spiritual notion. The wick in the lamp symbolizes our ego and the oil that is used to light the lamp denotes our innate nature that is responsible for the ego to thrive. The flame, the spiritual knowledge has the capacity to blaze our ego, the wick by emptying our innate tendencies. This is the significance of Karthigai Deepam.