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darkness denotes ignorance. In auspicious occa-
sions therefore, a traditional lamp is lit. The light-
ing of the lamp symbolises dispelling of ignorance
through knowledge. In the present century this
largely symbolic gesture of “lighting the lamp”
is concretely realised through lighting the fibre!

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