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Ganpati Bappa !
Idol of lord Ganesh and nice flower decoration around it, during Ganesh festival at my friend Amey's place in kandivali (Mumbai).
Its said that who have faith....there is a hope...and yes ! there is a existence of the power called "GOD" !
Today is the seventh day of this famous festival i.e Ganesh Chaturthi. Its being celebrated with lots of zeal and pompus in many states especially Mumbai. In this image you can see man reciting the prayer "Ganpati Bappa Morya agle baras to jaldi aa" which means Ganpati Father we pray to you to come back again next year with lots of love and blessings.
Before this festival Lord Ganesha's idol are made out of mud and clay and decorated beautifully. On the first day of this festival people buy the idols and keep them at their home. Daily twice a day they pray to the god for happiness and properity and then according to their capability people keep the idols at home i.e anywhere form 1 to 11 days. On the last day of the festival Visarjan process takes place i.e The idol is finally submerged in the water and being send back to the nature. While taking those idols from home to the visarjan process they chant the famous slogan Ganapati Bappa Morya.
In india festivals are given lots of importance as they bring happiness and joy in one's life. When we celebrate festival we tend to keep our worries behind and tend to absorb the happiness and good vibes of life. Obviously thats what life is all about "Being happy" isn't it.
I pray Lord Ganesha to bestow his blessings upon all my lovely friends.
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Lucky to be his favourite child...He has blessed me with the best of everything in this world...Thank you God for everything......Love you lots :)
On the last day of Ganesh festival (Ganesh visarjan day), the Ganesh murti (idol) is festively taken out of the house and immersed into the ocean, with devotees chanting "Ganapati bappa moriya, Pudhchya Varshi Lavkar yaa' which means "Oh ganesha we pray to you and request you to come again next year with lots of blessings and love".
This ritual symbolizes a see-off of the Lord in his journey towards his abode in Kailash while taking away with him the misfortunes of his devotees.
It was a great experience being in the middle of the rhythm of the Drum beats. It was not only the Crowd that was enjoying on the tunes but the artist's themselves were enjoying it a lot beating the drums nonstop for almost more than 24 hours.
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Ganesh Chaturti is the Hindu festival celebrated on the occasion of birthday of Lord Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati, who is believed to bestow his presence on earth for all his devotees in the duration of this festival. It is the day Shiva declared his son Ganesha as superior to all the gods, barring Vishnu, Lakshmi, Shiva and Parvati. Ganesha is widely worshipped as the god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune and traditionally invoked at the beginning of any new venture or at the start of travel.
The 'modak' -is Ganpati's favourite food item..
I surrender to you, Lord Ganesha. You are the speaker. You are the listener. You are the giver. You are the sustainer. I am your disciple. Protect me from the front and back. Protect me from the north and the south, from above and below. Protect me from all directions.
You are full of perfect knowledge of truth and awareness. You are full of bliss and pure consciousness. You are truth, consciousness and bliss. You are the absolute awareness. You are full of supreme wisdom and knowledge.
You are the earth, water, fire, air and the space. You are the root foundation of speech. You are beyond the three gunas: ‘sattva’, ‘rajas’ and ‘tamas.’ You are beyond the physical, mental and causal bodies. You are beyond the three aspects of time: past, present and future. You are eternally established in the muladhara chakra. You have three shaktis: action, knowledge and will.
Salutation to the Ganapati whose seed mantra is Aum Gam. We know Ekadanta, the One-tusked God, the unique God. We meditate upon Vakratunda, the curved-trunk God. May that unique elephant God illumine our consciousness and direct us along the right track.