From Sharma Gopaul, Mauritius:
BATTLE OF DARKNESS AND LIGHT
According to the Hindu calendar, in respect of the lunar calendar, 25
October 2003, was the darkest or "moonless" night. During this night
Hindus all over the world celebrated the festival of light-note that it is
yearly events that fall almost in the same period. This festival of light is
popularly known as Divali or a ray of light (Deepavalli). This annual tradition
goes down the history some 5000 years celebrating the arrival of the Prophet
Ram from Sri Lanka where He was exiled for 14 years to Ayodya-India, and He was
welcomed by array of light, Ram is portrait in the epic of Ramayana, mentioned
in the Century of Light page 70, which has helped devotees to
"improve", "console" and "enlighten", the
spiritual life, this celebration remind the Hindus of the battle of good and
evil and of darkness and light. To Hindus this epic is considered as a source
of inspiration, guidance, purification, unification and spiritualization.
Bahá'u'lláh Manifested in the darkest period of human history and a
scenario will describe when Bahá'u'lláh entered the City of Ákka He was
welcomed by the "banners of light". When the Báb was imprisoned in
Makku, Iran, it was dark and now at the shrine of the Báb array of light along
the 19 terraces, the Spiritual Center of the World, a source of guidance,
inspiration, purification and unification.
The prophet (Avatar) Ram was the seventh incarnation of Vishnu another
god-like figure in Hindu mythology, who will incarnate several time to
spiritualized people -sixth Avatars preceded Him, the eighth is Buddha, ninth
is Krishna and the tenth yet to appear according to Hindu belief.
The appearance of the tenth avatar is mentioned in the Bagavat Gita,
another sacred scripture of the Hindus. Shoghi Effendi wrote in God passes by,
"To Him in the Bagavat Gita of the Hindus had reflected as the 'Most Great
Spirit', the 'Tenth Avatar', the immaculate Manifestation of Krishna"
(page 95), Baha'u'llah represent the 10th Avatar.
Regard light metaphorically Bahá'u'lláh wrote "So powerful is the
light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth."