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0 pointsNomentatus3y ago0 comments

Darn the first couple saved URLs are for videos that have been removed. I did buy one Lakshmi song last year on itunes, my favorite Lakshmi mantra, and it's still available (with lovely CGI):

Sri Lakshmi Gayatri Mantra 108 Times | Powerful Mantra For Wealth & Luxuries

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugWlHwkOlfM

Note that I am not in a position to make any kind religious endorsement of this or any other videos! Consider the source!

I'll hit that a lot, but it looks like I'll mostly be tossing "Diwali" and "Lakshmi" into the Youtube search function, perhaps along with you.

PS - I swear that video was available at higher quality last year.

It would be interesting to know the history here, as you say, since there might be, to some degree, a response to Christmas involved amongst the diaspora? Such a response apparently underlies the current Jewish celebrations of Hanukkah.

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qart3y ago

The combination of "Diwali" and "Lakshmi" makes sense! It's been so long since I attended a Lakshmi worship ritual that I've forgotten what gets chanted. The traditional music is monophonic. The track you linked to definitely a modern re-interpretation. Maybe people are coming up with some seasonal music all around me, and I'm just unaware. The way that Coca Cola re-invented Christmas for Americans, maybe a handful of people are re-inventing Diwali celebrations all around me! To me, all these festivals mean I get to binge on sweets.

NomentatusOP3y ago

Last year there were Bollywood song compilations "for Diwali" around, that were excellent, as well. Since I don't get the words, I wouldn't have known that they weren't (or were) singing about Diwali themes.

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