Hindus in India and all over the world, worship Godess Lakshmi the most on Diwali, the festival of lights. According to tradition people would put small oil lamps outside their homes and clean their houses on Diwali and hope Lakshmi will come to bless them. Lakshmi is believed to come in the clean places only.
The prefix Sri (also spelled as Shri, pronounced as shree) renders as one who takes delight in’ Sri Lakshmi, meaning wealth, wealth of any kind. Any thing that need be affluent gets the auspicious prefix or suffix ‘Lakshmi’, or ‘Sri’ like Rajya Lakshmi (Wealth of Empire), Shanti Sri (Wealth of Peace), etc. In modern India, common titles standing in for the English Mr. and Mrs. are Shri (also Sri or Shree) and Shrimati (also Srimati or Shreemati), as in “Sri Gupta” or “Srimati Mangeshkar”.
In Uttarakhand, after the worship of the goddess on Diwali night, the Shankha or Conch is not blown. This is because the shankha is also from the ocean like the goddess herself, so it is given a day of rest.
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