India Celebrates Ganesh Chaturthi – Birthday Of Lord Ganesha Today.
By AKRao24
@AKRao24 (27424)
India
September 13, 2018 12:42am CST
In India we have a festival today by name Ganesh Chaturthi. 
This day it is believed that Lord Ganesha was born.
He is a God with an head of elephant and he is considered as God who is to be worshipped first before starting any good event , as it is believed that he keeps away the bad omens by doing so.
This festival is celebrated all over the country by Hindus with great zeal and enthusiasm for ten days.
But in the state of Maharashtra this has taken the form of Social event and big decorated tents are made and huge statues are installed to worship.
People they pay visit daily to these places in thousands and on tenth day the Statue is immersed in Sea with all sacred rituals.
People enjoy a lot this festival! Have you heard about this? Do you know Who is Lord Ganesha and how he is born?
This day it is believed that Lord Ganesha was born.
He is a God with an head of elephant and he is considered as God who is to be worshipped first before starting any good event , as it is believed that he keeps away the bad omens by doing so.
This festival is celebrated all over the country by Hindus with great zeal and enthusiasm for ten days.
But in the state of Maharashtra this has taken the form of Social event and big decorated tents are made and huge statues are installed to worship.
People they pay visit daily to these places in thousands and on tenth day the Statue is immersed in Sea with all sacred rituals.
People enjoy a lot this festival! Have you heard about this? Do you know Who is Lord Ganesha and how he is born?14 people like this
17 responses
@Mavic123456 (21898)
• Thailand
13 Sep 18
Happy birthday Lord Ganesh... And the weather seemed ok.
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@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
13 Sep 18
Happy Ganesh Chaturthi to one and all! It is believed that this God has powers to conquer all the obstacles in the lives of people!
Weather was sunny and hot in the day, evening is better! generally we get rains during this festival in Maharashtra! Thanks!
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@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
13 Sep 18
@LadyDuck , They start making these statues some three months before this day and they are sold in hundreds of thousands in each city.
We offer all types of fruits to him. it is believed that since he is having elephant's head he likes all the things liked by elephants. That is why we keep a tuft of grass also as an offering beside other things!
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@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
13 Sep 18
@Sreekala , yes in most parts of india they believe that! Because it is believed that moon laughed at ganesh's belly after he had nice feast and because of this ganesh suffers and the Moon is cursed that he will be inauspicious on the day of Ganesh Chaturthi, so people avoid looking at him on this day!
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@ptrikha_2 (45467)
• India
16 Sep 18
You would find this interesting :
Ganesh Chaturthi 2018, Lalbaugcha Raja 2018 Mumbai First Look: This 85-year-old idol's design is now patent protected by its family, the Kamblis, and to get darshan, devotees line up in two queues.
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@ptrikha_2 (45467)
• India
16 Sep 18
@AKRao24 we see many videos on this too - very popular in Mumbai!
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@caopaopao (12395)
• China
13 Sep 18
I haven't heard of this festival or this person. It's nice to know about these cultures.
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@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
13 Sep 18
Yes, it is ! People celebrate this festival with great zeal and enthusiasm. In Mumbai, Pune and other big cities people donate out of their devotion huge amounts of money and some unimaginable amount of Gold to this God during this period! That is the belief they have in this lord!
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@stapllotik (1933)
• India
13 Sep 18
Following is the list of countries where we can find evidences of Ganesha worship (source Wikipedia):
1.India (of course)
2.Srilanka
3.Nepal
4.Burma
5.Cambodia
6.Thailand
7.Indonesia (Java, Bali
8.Borneo
9.Afghanistan (high chances that Pakistan also had Ganesha temples, but most likely destroyed by now)
10.Tibet (China)
11.Japan
There are some claims that Aztecs temples in South America also had some elephant faced God. But it is yet to be proved if it was indeed Ganesha worship.
Happy ganeshchaturthi
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@ptrikha_2 (45467)
• India
17 Sep 18
@stapllotik a big list indeed. During Gupta dynasty and Harshavardhan, Indian culture spread to many parts of South East Asia.
And Ganesha worship might have been there in South America as older civilizations too had trade and cultural ties.
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@arunima25 (85274)
• Bangalore, India
13 Sep 18
There is such an interesting story of Lord Ganesha's birth and my younger loves to hear it again and again. It was a pretty busy day from yesterday in preparation and celebration. My younger daughter made a Ganesha idol out of clay and we worshiped it today.I have two posst about the same.
I am too tired with all cooking and preparation for pooja. Just relaxing after a hearty lunch with friends and family.
How did you celebrate it?
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@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
13 Sep 18
Nice to know that your younger daughter made an idol of Ganeshji and you worshiped it! Since I am at my home city, we were busy in the morning for the pooja shopping and having completed the Puja , we had lunch and preparing have some siesta after posting some comments here! We were just three in the Puja My wife, Helper, My self...but it was a grear pleasure in deed! I have posted the picture of Lord Ganesha we got it in the morning for Puja, in @LadyDuck 's post!
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@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
13 Sep 18
@arunima25 , Thanks a lot and I sincerely reciprocate and wish you all a blessed Ganesh Chaturthi once again!
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@arunima25 (85274)
• Bangalore, India
13 Sep 18
@AKRao24 Good to know that you had good time with your family. It is always a great pleasure to perform pooja. May Lord Ganesha bless you for prosperous days ahead.
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@KOLAMsegaran1 (4137)
• Bekasi, Indonesia
27 Dec 18
The ganesha statue looks really good, and the weather there looks very bright, you are a very lucky person
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@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
27 Dec 18
@KOLAMsegaran1 I am confused when you said 'Pickles' !
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@KOLAMsegaran1 (4137)
• Bekasi, Indonesia
27 Dec 18
@AKRao24 Do pickles like that are held once a year in your country
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
24 Sep 18
very interesting. enjoy and thanks for letting us know of it
@ptrikha_2 (45467)
• India
16 Sep 18
We too worship Lord Ganesha a lot, but the Maharasthrian celebrations are much more fabulous.
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@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
18 Sep 18
In fact this festival was given a shape of social festival by Lokmanka Tilak in that state. They used to install the big Ganesh idols in public places and people used to gather there to pray the Lord. And this used to be the way of gathering the people to discuss the activities to be followed for the freedom of the country by the Indian leaders. That is to say this opportunity used to spread of freedom fighting and relevent details among the prople. The tradition is still goes on like that, though India got its freedom from British.
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@ptrikha_2 (45467)
• India
19 Sep 18
@AKRao24 yes Bal Gangadhar Tilak in fact revived six popularised the festival.
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