Ganesha Chaturthi has
its own significance. It has been getting celebrated with loads of spirit and
faith since ages. It has been observed that the process of welcoming Lord
Ganesha starts from few days before itself of the festival. Devotes of Lord
Ganesha brings an idol of the deity to their home or office or in various
pandals with lots of cymbal’s sound and chanting. The face of the idol is being
kept till the Sthapana of the supreme power with lots of decoration around that
place. It has been believed that the idol gets imbued with life after the
rituals performed by the priest during the sthapana.
After this procedure,
devotees perform the traditional puja that begins at designated time. The
devotes worship the idol or the deity while offering him holy water and his favorite
modaks along with devotional chanting with bells, cymbals and claps.
It continues for the
remaining ten days of the festival, after that the time comes when the deity is
ready to go back to his own heavenly abode. Immersing the idol in the water
performs this ritual; this process is referred as Visarjan. Thousands of
devotes of Lord Ganesha takes part in this and moves to the nearest river or
the coastal areas for visarjan while chanting the line “Ganapati Bappa Morya
Purchya Varshi Laukariya” again and again.
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