Darren Roland Rosario , Mumbai : Ganesh Chathurthi or the birthday of Ganesha’s wisdom and prosperity falls on fourth Bhadrapada ( around August – September ). Ganesha is Indias cutest God. He has the head of an elephant on which he is perched a dainty tiara four podgy hands holding its own symbolic object. One has a trishul or a trident, the second an ankush , the third hand elegantly holds a lotus and the fourth a rosary. ( which is replaced by modaks – his favourite sweets ) there is a curiously interesting take about the birth of a human figure from someone urgent and balm , ganesha’s period of meditation on mountain Kailash Shivaswas a abruptly stoped by the man – God Paravati’s ( attendants ) to get him the head of first living elephants. As instructed the head was chopped off him back to life.
This elephant – God was Ganpati, which literally mean the chief of the Ganesh. This brave guardian of the door to Paravati’s bat worshipped during every festival and before people carefully guarding entrances to temples and home occasions. Varasiddhi Vinayak is an aspect of Ganesha in Wannihilated. This aspect of Ganesha is worshiped proportions. It is a huge community affair and decorated marquees, the puja, the Prasad ( sweet things ). In the days of the British Raj, Tilak Canat indue and reinforce feelings of nationalism among us. Each Locality makes its own special pandal people compete with eachother to put up a more outs ! Revelry, the priest installs the idols of Ganesha in the special parsad and food ( cooked with out onions , a puja with hymns ) is performed twice a day in the evening aarti. They actually rush home from work. People offer Prasad of modaks or peras. ( a type of vermilion , turmeric powder and rice ) During Ganesh Chathurthi , in most parts of the homes , the entire family wears fresh and clean clothes . Some give some flowers and rice in their hands .
They go to someones houses for the aarti, each ceremony in Ganesha’s style. Only a few people observe a fast on this festival as an occasion for pigging out and not for fasting . The round sweetest meat made of sesame flour and sug coffee . The festival comes to an end on the day of Anant doorstep , localities and puja rooms for a truly comes out on the streets with its Ganesha Amids oh Ganpati my Lord, return soon next year a sea announce the arrival of the procession, that halts everyone to seek his blessings , for he is the remover of all local community centre they started their journey, carry the idols to the local to the local river or tanks for the visa . As dusk takes charge of the skies , people return artists and sculptors start imaging how they had better modaks and pedas than Mrs X. And people are ready to welcome Ganesh next year and they all say unanimously “ GANPATI BAPPA MORYA , PUDHCHYA VARSHI LAVAKARYA “