Meaning Of Each Element Of Ganesha’s Body

Ganesha Chaturthi is a festival that has been getting celebrated on forth day of bright half of the Bhadrapad. In Sanatam Dharma the Lord Ganesha is considered as a symbol of intellect (budhhi) and wisdom (vijnana).

The various elements of Lord Ganesha have its own meaning and reason behind that. The huge elephant head of Ganesha represents the ability of human being to think big in every aspect of their life. The only one tusk of deity signifies the dedication of an individual towards their work or goal. Wide ears of him signify wisdom and ability learn as well as to hear the people who require help. Ganesha’s curved trunk represents the intellectual potential to distinguish between the truths and lies; where as trishula on his forehead indicates the time and his master on it. The little mouse (mushaka) is considered as a vehicle of Ganesha represents control of desire as, an uncontrolled desire of an individual can cause havoc in their life. 

Huge stomach of deity conveys a message that every individual should develop an ability to digest all kind of situation or times of their life. The positioning of his legs indicates participation in spiritual as well as materialist world. Four arms of the deity signify four different attributes of inner self that is mind, ego, intellect and conscience. Axe in one hand represents retrenchment of desires, whip in other hands signifies force, the third hands is for blessing toward their devotees, whereas the forth hand holding lotus indicates highest goal of the human evolution. 

Proper Way To Worship Lord Ganesha

Lord Ganesha is believed as a removal of obstacles. It has been believed that worshiping Lord Ganesha helps an individual to achieve lots of good luck, prosperity and peace in their life. Ganesha Chaturthi is one such occasion that is considered as the best time to worship the deity. Thousands of believers bring the Ganesha idol at their home or office to seek the blessing of the deity.

Let’s find out the proper way and things required to worship Lord of happiness and success.

Things that we require are:

• An Idol of Deity.
• Modak (his favorite food)
• Flowers (especially red in color)
• Coconut.
• Druva (grass blades)
• Intense sticks
• Sandalwood paste & powder.

The first thing that you need to do is clean the entire house, especially the place where the Ganesha idol will be placed. After taking a bath, take the idol and place them at a higher platform. The next step involves the Pran Pratishtha with the mantra that you can find in the Rig Veda. Learn the various mantras and bhajans to recite them while worshiping the deity. Following all the above-mentioned steps while performing the rituals with lots of faith will help you to seek the blessing of the Lord of prosperity, wisdom and attainment to get the desired.

Rituals Performed During Ganesha Festival

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. 

Bring Sphatik Ganesha For Peace & Prosperity

Ganesha is considered as a one of the supreme powers of the universe. There are thousands of devotes who have a huge faith in Lord Ganesha and worship him on a regular basis. Lord Ganesha is believed as a remover of obstacles and negative energy. It has been believed that worshiping Sphatik Ganesha at home or business gets loads of success and good fortune.

Crystal Ganesha is a handcrafted idol of the deity by carving crystal. The Sphatika Ganesha carries property to absorb light from the surrounding and reflects or emits colors of rainbow that signifies the energy of radiant white energy. It is a good conductor of energy and acts as both emitter as well as receiver. This crystal idol acts as a protecting agent from negative or the evil energy.

Spatik Ganesha is considered as very auspicious and scared due to its highly beneficial qualities. It has been believed that placement of this crystal idol at home or on office desk brings prosperity and peace along with it by removing all negative energies from the surrounding. To get the maximum benefits from the Sphatik Ganesha, you can worship by chanting the mantra “Om Gang Ganpatye Namah”. 

Meaning Of Ganesha Chaturthi

Ganesha Chaturthi is one of the most popular festivals in Hindu tradition and is getting celebrated in many of the places with huge spirit by the devotees of Lord Ganesha. It has been considered that the manifestation of LordGanesha holds the rectified portion of the Advaita Vedanta. He is a distinct essence of the divine power (Parvati), which reminds us that we all individual may differ from each other in the form of size and shape but we all are one and the same.Ganesha is considered as a divine in a manifested form that guides us to identify our manifested form. It teaches us to avoid wrong notion of our separate existence in front of others. Its essence is just one in the form of formless spirit, which passes through all overturns the disparities. 

The celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi gives a massage to us that we should keep the formless reality of ourselves. After celebrating the festival for ten days continuously the devotes takes the idol of the deity to the nearest water bodies to idol’s submerge as it is considered as the place of Lord Ganesha with a belief that every year he will come to us with lots of good spirit and happiness.

The Ultimate Power Of Lord Ganesha

As per the Hindu tradition or custom, Lord Ganesha is the beginning and ending of any important or special occasion or thing. It has been believed that, Lord Ganesha has lots of power and individuals who worship this deity on a regular basis get lots of success, wisdom, prosperity and fame in their life. The blessings of Lord Ganesha keep all kind of negative energy or evil power away from you.

It has believed that Lord Ganesha consists of five significant elements that the universe is made up of and they are:

1.     Earth or Bhumi: Solid in the form of Turmeric.

2.     Space or Akash: Container in the form of Universe.

3.     Air or Vaayu: Gas In the form of life through Lord Shiva.

4.     Water or Jal: Liquid in the form of Holy water of river Ganga.

5.     Fire or Agni: Energy in the form of heat that exists in Shiva.

All these five unification is the purest form of elements. As a human being we all can see these five element separately on this earth, but all these elements exists in Lord Ganesha all together and that can be felt by the one who has huge faith is a serious devotee of this deity. An individual can achieve lots of power as well as ultimate bliss by worshipping and meditating deity whole-heartedly.

Lord Ganesha – A Faith For Good Luck & Fortune

Ganesha is the son of Lord Shiva & Goddess Parvati. He is considered as the divine power that guides us to the path of success, prosperity and wisdom. It has believed that regular worship of this deity power destroys all evil or negative power from our surroundings, as it is one of the five prime deities of Hindu.

Importance of Lord Ganesha:

The head of Lord Ganesha represents the soul, which holds the ultimate power or energy in any human body. The trunk of the deity symbolizes ‘OM’, which has its power and considered as the most powerful and scared word in Hindu custom. The goad in right hand of the lord symbolizes the eternal path and guides the human to the path of wisdom as well as success and noose in the left hand is for removing all difficulties. The broken tusk of deity represents scarifies. The rosary in other hand of Ganesha is a symbol of knowledge where as laddoo is for discovering the sweetness in our inner-self.

Lord Ganesha is considered as the power that destroys pride, vanity and selfishness. In Hindu tradition, any kind of worship starts with the name of this deity and ends at his name. The festival termed as Ganesh Chaturthi is one of the most famous festival that has been celebrated since ages to glorify the lord and to get his blessings to bring loads of good luck, fortune and success.