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Ganesh Chaturthi What is the story behind the tradition of Ganesh visarjan? Select a City Close. Your current city: Mumbai Mumbai search close. All Bombay Times print stories are available on. We serve personalized stories based on the selected city OK. Go to TOI. The Times of India. Why are people quitting their jobs?
How to deal with an unpredictable boss. Never say these things to a Cancerian. These zodiac signs believe in ghosts. Why men like taking their girl on a bike ride. Do diseases have a smell? The story goes that one day, while Parvati was having a bath, Shiva came home. When he attempted to enter the house though, he was met with resistance in the form of the boy Ganesh. Neither of them knew they were related.
It was at this moment that Parvati came out to find what Shiva had done. She was inconsolable but managed to tell Shiva that the boy whose head he had cut off was in fact his son.
Angry and upset at the hash he had made of the situation, Shiva decided to fix it. That is how Ganesh has an elephant head. He is worshipped as the remover of obstacles. The reason I find the Ganesh deity an interesting object especially with regard to origin myths, is due to the close association between the Ganesh Festival and the state of Maharashtra in western India. The origin of this association can be traced back to the early days of the freedom struggle.
Tilak, initiated the Samajik Utsav public festival. The premise of this initiative was to use festivals as public forums in which to bring awareness and educate people about the freedom movement Chandra, Tilak was from Maharashtra and is essentially said to have chosen the Ganesh Festival because it was one that was widely, privately celebrated.
There are a series of rituals performed and on the tenth day the deity is immersed into the sea. There is a big procession that takes place with much jubilation, where people come out in numbers carrying deities, sometimes as high as thirty feet to the sea. The materiality of this particular deity is an interesting one. Prior to the festival, there are a number of clay Ganesh deities that crowd market places.
While people may worship Ganesh deities made of wood, silver or gold at home, for this festival they will also worship one made of clay so that it may be immersed.
Only those Ganesh deities that are ritually worshipped are immersed. There then seems to be a level of inalienability that relates to the materiality of the deity itself. Aspects of this will be addressed in the sections that follow. There are two reasons for the practice of immersion, though I am not able to tell which one is more popular or more accurate. Kajol's take on gender-equal parenting hits all the right notes in this video.
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He was created in a completely human form by the Goddess Parvati. She moulded him from clay or the earth from her own body versions vary and gave it life. She then tasked him to stand by the door of her palace as she bathed and not let anyone in. When her own husband, the great God Shiva tried to enter the human form barred his path. Shiva was furious at being denied entry into his own home and an awesome battle followed.
Shiva won the battle and beheading Ganesha. But he immediately felt guilty and he knew his wife would be furious. So he sent his men to bring back the head of the first creature they came across. They met an elephant with one tusk who happily sacrificed his head for the honour. Shiva bought Ganesha back to life and thus his story is considered one of rebirth and regeneration.
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