Sloka for Lighting Lamp and its significance.

Significance of  lighting the lamp:

Lighting a lamp infront of the God or in the pooja room is not only believed to be auspicious but its also defined as Lord himself  because light defines spiritual knowledge and the Lord is the chaitanya (knowledge principle) who is the main source and illuminator of Knowledge.

Chinmayananda says 

“Where there is light, darkness cannot be; 
Where knowledge has come, ignorance must quit.”

In short knowledge removes ignorance just as light removes darkness. So we bow to the light of knowledge which we consider the greatest wealth in our lives. The flame of the lamp always burns upwards meaning one should acquire knowledge in a such as way that they grow towards higher ideals.

With a single lamp / deepam , we can light many such lamps  but the original lamp doesn't diminish by sharing it with other lamps just as man of knowledge can give to many more and this doesn't diminish his knowledge.

Sloka :

Here is a sloka that was taught to me by my neighbor while I was in India. I recite this whenever I lit the lamp.

Shubham karoti kalyanam aarogyam dhanasampada,

Shatru buddhivinashaaya deepajyotir namostute.


In the evening U recite the same sloka replacing the word deepajyotir by Sandhya Deepam Namostute

I salute the One who is the lamplight, that brings auspiciousness,

prosperity, good health, abundance of wealth, and the destruction

of the intellect’s enemy.

Other related Slokas :

Deepajyotih param brahma deepajyotih janaardhanah
Deepo harathu me paapam Deeparjyotir sandhyaa deepo namo(a)stutae

The light of the lamp stands for the Unmanifest Truth as well as for Lord Vishnu in His manifest form. Let that light of lamp remove my sins, results of omissions and commissions

Suvarna vriddhim kurume gruhe shri
Sudhaanya vriddhim kurume gruhe shri
KalyaaNa vriddhim kurume gruhe shri
Vibhooti vriddhim kurume gruhe shri 
Meaning: I pray to Goddess Lakshmi to shower my house with Abundance, Grains, Auspiciousness and Prosperity.