Why do we light diyas during Deepawali? Understanding the Upanishadic message of Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya

The most familiar verse associated with Diwali is not a story from the Ramayana or the Bhagavata Purana. It is a line from the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad that has been chanted for more than two thousand years: Asato mā sadgamaya, tamaso mā jyotirgamaya, mṛtyor mā amṛtaṃ gamaya. Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality. When families place rows of clay lamps along their thresholds on the night of Amavasya, they are performing that prayer in visible form

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