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This is the festival of devotion, belief and faith of people in India. Its generally about those 11 days when lord Ganesha is welcomed by every one - be it their home, housing societies, private colonies or big stage called "pandals". For all the devotees, its the most awaited festival of the year as their beloved "Bappa" is believed to be visiting their lives.
The City of Celebration - Mumbai, has its own ways of celebrating and enjoying the festivity. Preparations here begins months back from the main festival - its about making of the Ganesha idol, its about the decoration and its about preparation of the stages or mandaps and joining all those small and tiny bits.
Most critical of all the preparation is the making of Ganesha idol which begins at least a couple of months back and in some rare cases immediately post the current years festival's end. The Ganesha idols are from 1 inch to 35-40 feets huge so one can easily imagine the scale of preparation that undergoes in festival. Near festival day, most of the streets are lit and decorated with Ganesha idols, decoration items, variety of lightings etc. All these is being sold in the shops and on the streets.
In Dadar - mumbai, we spotted one such lane, filled with Ganesha idols on both side of the lanes, literally thousands of them, these are villagers from Maharashtra who brings / makes their idols from their villages to earn their livelihood.
This man’s devotion or serenity enchanted me – I was watching him for a long time.
There’s a buddhist centre near my old house – the Nalanda – a centre based on sri lankan teachings. Different budhist practices from different countries have slightly different styles of workship – the Tibetian one is more similar to hinduism where Buddha is portrayed in various forms and devi plays a major role. I never found the time to go there till on Wesak Day, last Saturday.
It’s a very new centre and I was told it was started to offer students in the local univ (I live in a univ town) a place to workship and bond. What I liked about the place was they were very welcoming. Lights and flowers and food was given to all.
I’ve always loved the serenity of Buddha, I fell in love with one particular statue in chiang mai last year and was sitting in front of him forever. I’m also prone to sit and enjoy the chants of the workshipers – very soothing.
Few years back we had the opportunity to perform in a dance drama on Sidharta. Upon seeing our performance, the main buddhist vihara in KL invited us to perform again on the steps of their temple on a full moon day. It was one of our most memorable performance as there was just an amazing serenity to it facing the moon and performing to the world.
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