"Ganapati boppa moriya"
It's the auspicious start of the 10 day Vinayaka Chathurthi celebrations. The colourful idols of Lord Ganesha - of varying sizes - had flooded the market towards the run up. But the scale at which the Maharashtrians celebrate the occasion is the grandest as per my estimate!
Among the pantheon of the Hindu gods, it's Lord Ganesha who invokes the maximum respect out of the fundamental human emotion of fear. It's a universal belief that new projects cannot take off without his endorsement because, among his many names, the one that aptly describes him is 'Vighneswara' - to use a current slang in use, it means 'the blocker'! And it's only at his doorstep that one sees devotees, holding their ears, sincerely requesting him to pardon them for their mistakes.
That sums up the thrall his followers have for the elephant headed son of Lord Siva and Parvathy.
Let me, too, join the chorus and bow my head in humble prayer,
"Vakratunda maha kaya
Suryakoti sama prabha
Nir vighnam kuru mey deva
Sarva kayeshu sarvada".
It's the auspicious start of the 10 day Vinayaka Chathurthi celebrations. The colourful idols of Lord Ganesha - of varying sizes - had flooded the market towards the run up. But the scale at which the Maharashtrians celebrate the occasion is the grandest as per my estimate!
Among the pantheon of the Hindu gods, it's Lord Ganesha who invokes the maximum respect out of the fundamental human emotion of fear. It's a universal belief that new projects cannot take off without his endorsement because, among his many names, the one that aptly describes him is 'Vighneswara' - to use a current slang in use, it means 'the blocker'! And it's only at his doorstep that one sees devotees, holding their ears, sincerely requesting him to pardon them for their mistakes.
That sums up the thrall his followers have for the elephant headed son of Lord Siva and Parvathy.
Let me, too, join the chorus and bow my head in humble prayer,
"Vakratunda maha kaya
Suryakoti sama prabha
Nir vighnam kuru mey deva
Sarva kayeshu sarvada".
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