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Handmade original, double layer acrylic ebru (turkish paper marbling) with Ganesh screen print embellishment on kozo paper.
18"x24"
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Ganesha Chaturthi is a Hindu festival of Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati, is believed to bestow his presence on earth for all his devotees. It is also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi. it is the birthday of Lord Ganesha. The festival is observed in the Hindu calendar month of Bhaadrapada, starting on the shukla chaturthi (fourth day of the waxing moon period). The date usually falls between 20 August and 15 September. The festival lasts for 10 days, ending on Anant Chaturdashi.
Ganesha, the elephant-headed son of Shiva and Parvati, is widely worshipped as the supreme god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune.
"Lord Ganesh is the most popular deity of the Indian pantheon. He is worshipped as the supreme problem solver.
The sculpture shows Ganesh in his Irish incarnation. He serves by helping people access and upgrade their innate capacity for problem solving. By so doing he guides all surfers lost on the Universal WEB of Life home to rest and happiness.
Tradition has it that Ganesh is extremely clever and with it. That's why he now reads the computer classic Basic rather than some ancient religious tome.
It took 5 craftsman one year to hand cut and polish this delightful work of art. The stone is black granite. It weighs about 2 tons.
If you spray Ganesh with water he will turn black. If you tap his book gently (!!) with your knuckle it sounds like a bell"
Ganesh is the “son of Shiva”. The story is that because Parvathi was disturbed by Shiva while bathing she rubbed her body and from the surf thus generated, Ganesh was born to guard her. Shiva cut off Ganesh’s head, but seeing Parvathi so distraught he replaced the head with that of the first living thing he saw – an elephant.
He represents the unity of the microcosm, a being’s self (represented by the human body), with the Absolute (the elephant’s head), i.e. the Atman with Brahman, the manifest with the unmanifest. So he can be seen as a diagram in a similar way as can an Orthodox Christian church layout with its screen, though I don't know exactly what it represents. But it has to do with the deity, the manifest and the unmanifest.
The swastika is the graphic symbol of Ganesha. The cross represents the development of the multiple from the basic unity, the central point. Its branches are bent so that they do not point at the central point, showing that we cannot reach the basic unity directly through the outward forms of the universe, i.e. the outward form of the world appears intelligible for mind and words, divinity cannot be directly understood. His bent trunk symbolises the same thing.
Ganesha sits eating sweet meats, and a mouse sits at his feet picking up the crumbs he drops. The mouse represents the individual self, the Atman. It lives in the hole called Intellect, within the heart of every being. Like the mouse, the self is a thief that steals away all that people possess. It hides behind the shapes of illusion – the pleasures people believe they enjoy.
The end of one of his tusks has been broken off: he was writing down the Mahabharata when his pen wore out, so he broke off the end of a tusk to finish it off. His overly large ears represent the ancient texts, the Vedas.
The elephant-headed god ,Ganesh ,is probably the most popular god in all Hinduism Understandibly so, as he represents prosperity & wisdom , which we all would like to have.!! This was taken in a small temple near Grande Gaube,Mauritius.
Handmade original, double layer acrylic ebru (turkish paper marbling) with Ganesh screen print embellishment on kozo paper.
18"x24"
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"On the Ganesh Chaturthi day, meditate on the stories connected with Lord Ganesha early in the morning, during the Brahmamuhurta period.
Then, after taking a bath, go to the temple and do the prayers of Lord Ganesha.
Offer Him some coconut and sweet pudding.
Pray with faith and devotion that He may remove all the obstacles that you experience on the spiritual path.
Worship Him at home, too.
You can get the assistance of a pundit.
Have an image of Lord Ganesha in your
house.
Feel His Presence in it.
Don’t forget not to look at the moon on that day; remember that it behaved unbecomingly towards the Lord.
This really means avoid the company of all those who have no faith in God, and who deride God, your Guru and religion, from this very day.
Take fresh spiritual resolves and pray to Lord Ganesha for inner spiritual strength to attain success in all your undertakings.
May the blessings of Sri Ganesha be upon you all!
May He remove all the obstacles that stand in your spiritual path!
May He bestow on you all material prosperity as well as liberation!"
(Swami Sivananda - Hindu spiritual teacher, 1887 – 1963)
Ganesha Chaturthi 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.
This picture of Lord Ganesha was shot in a temple of Khajuraho located in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
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Last year, after I took pictures of the intense experience at Anant Chaturdashi (the day of immersion of the Ganesh idols), a friend suggested I return to Chowpatty the next morning and witness the sharp contrast of a deserted beach and sent-off idols. But after having shot a trajillion hours in the rain the previous day I was too tired to come back for more.
This year though, I skipped the main day of immersion and instead, got my lazy ass to get up at 5:30 the next day, hoping to getting some images of the aftermath of the festival; disintegrating murtis, scavenging locals & utter waste set against the isolated backdrop of the beach at sunrise. So I was pretty surprised when I got to Girgaum C. because I went into crawling traffic, AT SUNRISE. Scores of people were already there, and it looked as if some had spent the night judging from their flimsy beach towels…but anyway, the more the merrier for my pictures :P . Turns out the visarjan (immersion) of Bombay/Mumbai's most revered idol, Lalbaugcha Raja had been scheduled for this morning (this kind of delay almost never happens from what I hear).
These images have been lying in my pc for 2 days now but I finally got some time to process them. Pretty good experience I'd say (if I discount that genius at the beach who decided I shouldn't be taking pictures) because I did after all, get to watch Lalbaugcha Raja on his journey out to sea.
I'd be pleased if you'd have a look at some more images from this set here.
Sandsculputures are quite more thoughtful and philosophikal than it seems on the first View. Not only in this kase, where we see Ganesh - all of them:
They illustrate the ephemeral Aspekt of Life and somehow we are all made of Sand, soon their is a Wave taking us back to the endless Ocean... if we overmaster our poor Egos, we kould live very good with this Knowledge - otherwise the Demon within debauchs to a wide Field of stupid Behaviour.
Nobody should take himself or somebody else to seriou - only Life itself is important...
Information about Ganesh:
In Hinduism, Ganesha (or "lord of the hosts," also spelled as Ganesa and Ganesh, sometimes referred to as Ganapati in Marathi, Gujarati and other Indian languages) is a son of Shiva and Parvati, and the husband of Bharati, Riddhi and Siddhi. He is also called Vinayaka in Marathi and Kannada, Vinayagar (in Tamil) and Vinayakudu in Telugu. 'Ga' symbolizes Buddhi (intellect) and 'Na' symbolizes Vijanana (wisdom). Ganesha is thus considered as the master of intellect and wisdom. He is depicted as a pot bellied yellow or red god with four arms and the head of a one-tusked elephant, riding or attended to by a mouse. Typically, His name is usually prefixed with the Hindu title of respect, 'Shree'.
Ganesha acquired his head through varying methods in different stories. In one, Shiva decapitated him because Ganesha refused to allow him to enter the house while his mother, Parvati, was bathing. Shiva was not aware that Parvati had instructed Ganesha to guard the house while she was bathing. He was not even aware that Ganesha was his son, as he had been away from home for some time. Shiva had to give him the new head to placate his wife. In another version, Parvati showed the child off to Shiva, whose face burned his head to ashes, which Brahma told Shiva to replace with the first head he could find—in this case, that of an elephant. The lack of a second tusk is explained by different stories. An avatar of Vishnu, Parashurama, once went to visit Shiva but the way was blocked by Ganesha. Parasurama threw his axe at him and Ganesha, knowing the axe had been given to him by Shiva, allowed it to cut off one of his tusks. Yet another version is that, in the process of writing the Mahabharata (at the dictation of Vyasa), Ganesh found that his pen had broken, and in the urgency of taking down the great words, snapped off his left tusk as a replacement quill.
Ganesha is known as Aumkara, because his body mirrors the shape of the Aum, the elephant god is thus seen as the embodiment of the cosmos. His elephantine head symbolizes the intelligence and beatitude of the elephant, powerful, yet gentle. His vehicle is a mouse known as Mooshika, Mooshikam, Minjur, or Akhu, and this symbolizes the intellect, small enough to find out any secret in the most remote of places. It also signifies his humility, that he espouses the company of one of the smaller creatures.
He is the lord of wisdom, intelligence, education, prudence, luck and fortune, gates, doors, doorways, household and writing. He is the remover of obstacles, and as such it is normal to invoke him before the undertaking of any task with such incantations as Aum Shri Ganeshaya Namah (hail the name of Ganesha), or similar. Throughout India and the Hindu culture, Lord Ganesh is the first idol placed into any new home or abode.
Go to Wikipedia to read more about the Birth of Ganesh and other Stories.
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This Huge idol of ganesh has been set up by birla's on old Mumbai-pune highway at somatne. around 25 kms from pune city.
This incredible sculpture is located in Victorias Way park in Roundwood, Co. Wicklow! The sculptures are made in India and transported to Ireland. On each of this series there's a tiny rodent figure to complement the main character!
Ganesh Chaturthi is the Hindu festival that reveres god Ganesh. A ten-day festival, which starts typically in the Gregorian months of August or September. The festival is marked with installation of Ganesh clay idols privately in homes, or publicly on elaborate pandals). Observations include chanting of Vedic hymns and Hindu texts, prayers and fasting). Offerings include sweets such as modaka believed to be a favorite of the elephant-headed deity. The festival ends on the tenth day after the start, wherein the idol is carried in a public procession with music and group chanting, then immersed in a nearby water body such as a river or ocean, thereafter the clay idol dissolves and Ganesha is believed to return to Mount Kailasha.
The festival remembers Ganesha's birthday, and celebrates him as the god of good beginnings, prosperity and obstacle remover. It is observed throughout India.
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Ganesh Chaturthi is is one of the Hindu festival celebrated on the birthday of Lord Ganesha. Lord Ganesha is considered to be one of the Indian (mythological) gods. This event lasts for 10-12 days. More to come.. ..
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La petite ville de Kanadukathan se trouve dans le Chettinad, une région où s'est développée, depuis l'époque des Chola(s), la communauté des Chettiars.
Les Chettiars appartiennent à une caste de commerçants qui se sont enrichis dans la banque et dans diverses activités lucratives, durant l'occupation britannique, notamment en Birmanie et à Ceylan.
Ils ont fait construire des maisons très luxueuses dans leur région d'origine comme à Kanadukathan mais n'y habitent plus depuis longtemps, ce qui donne à cette petite ville une ambiance étrange de ville déserte.
Les palais construits dans un style éclectique, se ressemblent tous au niveau architectural, ils ont été peints de couleurs criardes différentes pour se différencier les uns des autres.
Tous comportent sur leur façade un "kudu" (motif décoratif en fer à cheval) consacré à la déesse de la richesse Laksmi, la parèdre de Vishnou mais la communauté est shivaïste.
Parmi ces palais conformes à l'image de réussite sociale que leurs propriétaires voulaient donner, se trouvent quelques petits bâtiments de style art déco plus intéressants mais pas toujours entretenus.
Article de Wikipedia sur le Chettinad, pays des Chettiars
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joegoauk.blogspot.in/2015/09/ganesh-chaturthi-2015-goa.html
Firework fire crackers shopts stalls
In Hinduism, Ganesha (Gaṇeśa, "lord of the hosts," also spelled Ganesa and sometimes referred to as Ganesh in Hindi, Bengali and other Indian languages) is a son of Shiva and Parvati, and the husband of Bharati, Riddhi and Siddhi. In art, he is depicted as a pot bellied yellow or red god with four arms and the head of a one-tusked elephant, riding or attended to by a mouse. Typically, his name is prefixed with the Hindu title of respect, 'Shri.'
Ganesha acquired his head through varying methods in different stories. In one, Shiva decapitated him because Ganesha refused to allow him to enter the bath while Parvati was bathing. Shiva had to give him the new head to placate his wife. In another version, Parvati showed the child off to Shiva, whose face burned his head to ashes, which Brahma told Shiva to replace with the first head he could find—in this case, that of an elephant. The lack of a second tusk is explained by different stories. An avatar of Vishnu, Parashurama, once went to visit Shiva but the way was blocked by Ganesha. Parasurama threw his axe at him and Ganesha, knowing the axe had been given to him by Shiva, allowed it to cut off one of his tusks. Yet another myth is that, in the process of writing the Mahabharata (at the dictation of Vyasa), Ganesh found that his pen had broken, and in the urgency of taking down the great words, snapped off his left tusk as a replacement quill.
Ganesha is known as Aumkara, because his body mirrors the shape of the Aum, the elephant god is thus seen as the embodiment of the cosmos. His elephantine head symbolizes the intelligence and beatitude of the elephant, powerful, yet gentle. His vehicle is a mouse (mooshikam), and this symbolizes the intellect, small enough to find out any secret in the most remote of places. It also signifies his humility, that he espouses the company of one of the smaller creatures.
He is the lord of wisdom, intelligence, education, prudence, luck and fortune, gates, doors, doorways, household and writing. He is the remover of obstacles, and as such it is normal to invoke him before the undertaking of any task with such incantations as Aum Shri Ganeshaya Namah (hail the name of Ganesha), or similar.
Info from wikipedia.