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Think it Over

Inhabit, Light!

Sushmita Mukherjee

Abstract
The Word, ‘inhabit’, opens at a Given Moment, on a Chosen Day, and triggers this: a Prayer. We
are creatures of habits, till we no longer are: when we realise and refuse to be that anymore, when
we realise that these habits, formed through unknown lives in unknown forms, are inhibiting
inhabitants of the Temple within. We want to consecrate the Temple to the Deity within, to the
Divine Mother. But these in habit, that inhabit, these are very, and naturally, sticky inhabitants
marring and clouding even our speech too, along with each movement of our being. And so, to
Her we offer our difficulty, and Her invoke, assured by Her Affirmations and showers of Her
Grace….

as also the former, and in both and through
both, Grace: the Words Given and Received
on the day, 12 November 2023, the day of Kali
Puja and the festival of Light, Deepawali. Also,
preceding them, is presented a meaning, cannot
say ‘the meaning’ of the word ‘Deepawali’,
the word opening as: ‘Deep’ + ‘wali’. ‘Deep’
in Hindi (‘dee’ in ‘deep’, phonetically and
pronounced as ‘thi’ in this) meaning and
symbolising those earthen lamps that are
lighted, and also in itself implying Light
and, ‘wali’ (phonetically and pronounced
as ‘wal’ in walnut, and ‘li’ as in broccoli), as
remembered from the days of usage in Hindi,
loosely and broadly translated, implying
the lady who is the carrier, possessor or is
Introduction carrying that thing, in this case, Light.... Later
on, as is the Mind’s ways, wanting to verify
Interestingly or Naturally? It is the latter, whether the reception has been accurate,

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