Tradition of Playing Card

 

Tradition of playing cards is not the original tradition. Actually it's the tradition of gamble on this festival. It has a mythological story that on this day Godess Parvati played Dice with her husband Lord Shiva. On the day she announced that whosoever will play gamble on this day will get prosperity and wealth the while ensuing year. From that day people believe that playing any sort of gambling is auspicious on this day. With the time the ways of playing gamble has also changed remarkably. Now cards have taken place of dice. People play card with their family members to auspicate. They also invite their friends and relatives for playing cards. As money is considered the blessing of Godess Laksmi, people want to play it with great enthusiasm. The winner considers himself lucky not only for getting money but for getting blessings of Godess Lakshmi and the looser don't want to wait for the next year and wants to win at least once. So people think that if they play gamble on this day, Godess Lakshmi will be pleased with them and the whole next year will proved to be lucky and benefic for them. Gambling with this view is not bad but some people disgrace the festival because of their addiction of gambling and they try to persuade others and legitimating this by referring the story of Godess Lakshmi and Lord Shiva. People are so addicted that they go to casina for playing gamble. Some win, some loose but the casino owners always win and they earn lot on the day. For them Diwali is a day on which they definitely become rich provided the customers come to their clubs. It is also a myth somebody doesn't play gamble or cards on this day then he/she will born as donkey in the next birth but I think this is spread by the intention of legitimating once' addiction of gambling on this festival.