This stagnating thoughts is the feature of Ego and so symbolized as Buffalo
head. Buffalo is an animal known for its laziness and always like itself
soaked in dirty stagnated water. Kali is the Ego killing intellect in us
,which brings prosperity in us.
Kali drinking blood represents using the energy that the Ego was sucking and
wasting. If we could just get a sip of this energy we can create wonders.
Our wandering mind is one of the many aspect of Ego. Try this right
now...try to keep your mind from wandering and be focused on your work. Can
You?.
2nd
Reason for celebrating Deepavali:
Unfortunately the wandering mind
cannot be immediately be tied to focus. The senses have to first tamed.
There are five sense organs of action (legs, hands, mouth and two excretory
organs)
and five sense organs of perception (eyes, ears, nose, skin and tongue),
making it ten.
These ten headed senses (Ravana) always
steal our mind (sita) who ignores the concentration (lakshmana). Rama
the intellect only can save Sita from Ravana after a great effort and
practice (war).
The victory of this internal war
brings the light of peace and prosperity in us. This celebration is Deepavali.
3rd
Reason for celebrating Deepavali:
To fight the war against the
senses we need the help of the intellect, which we rarely use. We ignore
intellect most of the time suffer dire consequences. This is the story of
the churning of Ocean, connected to deepavali celebration.
