Brass Lamp - Koorma Base

Lighting a lamp/diya denotes dispelling away darkness. In Hindu Sanatana Dharma, a ghee lamp/diya is lit and placed in front of the god,the belief is that we will be richly rewarded with tremendous prosperity. It is said that Goddess Rajarajeshwari resides in the lamp – mother represents the Trishakti of Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswathi.Light symbolizes knowledge, and darkness, ignorance.  The Lord is the "Knowledge Principle" (Chaitanya) who is the source, the enlivener and the illuminator of all knowledge. Hence light is worshiped as the Lord himself.Knowledge removes ignorance just as light removes darkness. Also knowledge is a lasting inner wealth by which all outer achievement can be accomplished. Hence we light the lamp to bow down to knowledge as the greatest of all forms of wealth. The  ghee in the lamp symbolizes our vaasanas or negative tendencies and the wick, the ego. When lit by spiritual knowledge, the vaasanas get slowly exhausted and the ego too finally perishes. The flame