Fix your gaze upon the Light

The lamps are different, but the light is the same;
It comes from beyond.
If you keep looking at the lamp,
Thou are lost.
For thence arises number and plurality.
Fix your gaze upon the Light.

-Maulana Rumi, the great mystic in the Islamic tradition

I came across this wonderful poem at the end of a nice article which started with the question "Why exactly do we celebrate these festivals?", which I asked myself many a times. The article doesn't stop there, but tries to analyse the inner meaning of what a celebration means in context of Diwali, touching the view points of Gandhi, flowing through epics Ramayana and MahaBharata, quoting Kabir and Einstein and ending with en-lighten-ing Rumi's poem, with a concluding statement "Fixing our gaze upon this Light which reveals the unity of all life is the real Diwali."