042 - Light Meets Light: Laxmi & Jesus
Laxmi Enters the Home of a Follower of Christ
When I was young, Diwali meant lamps, sweets, and confusion. I watched my friends in America unwrap gifts at Christmas while our house glowed with diyas and incense smoke. They had Santa and a glittering tree. We had silence and ritual. I loved Jesus. I loved light. Yet the two felt like they lived in separate rooms. No gifts, no glittering tree; only the faint hum of a prayer I didn’t yet understand.
Laxmi Entering A Home During Diwali
Two Symbols, One Light
For years, I carried that ache like an invisible inheritance. Every October, I’d wonder why joy looked different in our home. I loved Jesus. I loved light. But somehow, in my child’s mind, those two forces didn’t seem to belong to the same house.
As an adult, I began to see what my child self couldn’t: Jesus and Lakshmi are not in competition. They are two languages describing the same radiance.
Jesus embodies grace, the love that arrives unearned, a hand that reaches without condition. Lakshmi embodies harmony, the prosperity that blossoms when we live with gratitude, order, and beauty. Both invite us to step into abundance, not as accumulation, but as alignment with the divine.
In one hand, Lakshmi carries coins; in the other, a lotus. The coins represent the energy of sustenance, what we need to thrive in this material world. The lotus, rising unstained from the mud, represents spiritual purity. Together, they are the eternal balance between means and meaning.
Jesus turns water into wine not to impress, but to celebrate love. He multiplies bread and fish not to flaunt power, but to meet need. His wealth is compassion made tangible.
Lakshmi and Christ both whisper the same truth: real abundance is not what you keep, but what you give.
Jesus Opening The Door For Laxmi
The Door Between Faiths
This year, as my wife lit the lamps for Laxmi Puja, I imagined something new: Lakshmi standing at my threshold, hesitant, and Jesus opening the door with a smile.
The image is not blasphemy; it’s revelation. The Divine never belonged to one faith; it only waited for hearts willing to see unity through difference.
When Lakshmi enters the home of a follower of Christ, she doesn’t bring foreign gods; she brings forgotten grace. She brings the discipline to honor creation, to see wealth as stewardship, and to welcome light as love’s reflection.
And Jesus, standing at the doorway, does not guard against her presence. He recognizes her. The same light that shines through His heart glows from her hands.
Reclaiming the Holiday
I no longer see Diwali and Christmas as two opposing calendars. I see them as one rhythm: prepare, receive, share.
Diwali teaches me to prepare, to cleanse the home, the heart, the thoughts.
Laxmi Puja teaches me to receive, with gratitude, not greed.
Christmas teaches me to share, to turn grace into action.
In this sequence, the holidays complete each other. Diwali readies the vessel; Christmas fills it.
Healing the Child Within
The child in me who once felt deprived now understands: it was never about the absence of gifts; it was about the absence of translation. My parents didn’t know how to explain that our lamps and prayers were their form of giving, their way of saying that you already have what you need.
Now, I translate it for them, and for myself. The gift I longed for was always light. And that light has found me.
Where Light Meets Light
When Lakshmi steps through my door, I see no conflict. I see the Creator wearing two garments: one woven in saffron, one in linen. Both stitched from the same thread of love. The divine abundance that sustains us is not limited by scripture or symbol. It is the same light reflected through every window, refracted by every heart that dares to see unity where others see division.
This Diwali, I let the lamps burn beside the cross. I let the Goddess and the Christ stand in the same room. And as their light mingles on my walls, I finally understand; to follow the Light is to let it shine wherever it wants to enter.
The Next Orbit of Faith
Every orbit eventually expands. For years, I circled between traditions, trying to choose which light to follow. But faith was never meant to be a border; it was meant to be propulsion, energy that moves you closer to truth. The “Next Orbit” for me is not about leaving one belief for another; it’s about rising high enough to see how they converge. Christ taught compassion as a revolution of the heart. Laxmi teaches harmony as a revolution of stewardship. Both are engines of transformation: when love meets responsibility, grace meets order, heaven meets Earth.
As a follower of Christ, I welcome Laxmi not as a rival goddess but as a divine colleague, a fellow emissary of light. As a son of both East and West, I no longer need to choose which fire burns brighter. I simply tend the flame I’ve been given. So this Diwali, this Christmas, this year: I light the lamp, play the music, and build what I can with both hands open. One hand of devotion, one hand of design. One faith in love that transcends language, scripture, and flag. This is the work. This is the worship. Where light meets light, creation begins again.
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Manish Miglani | Mani
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