GANPATI FESTIVAL -Ganpati Bappa Morya!!!
After the celebration of Hartalika Teej, I and my family were all set to welcome Bappa at our home Chaturthi Ganesh Chaturthi, is a Hindu festival celebrating the arrival of Ganesha to earth from Kailash Parvat. The festival is celebrated with the establishment of Ganesha idols (clay made eco-friendly preferably) at homes, or publicly in temporary pandals.
At my home, It been 7 years of welcoming Bappa, Due to rooted from Varanasi a city of eastern Uttar Pradesh, Ganpati festival is not very common there in spite of being a city of temples and Ghats, it wasn’t very famous for celebrating Ganpati Mahotsav at that time, however I was so obsessed by this festival right from my childhood , don’t know why and how? My determination was so strong even that time too, that whenever I get an opportunity, with my inner confidence and strength I am definitely going to bring Ganpati at my home and will be celebrating this festival to the fullest. After marriage when I got shifted to Pune my obsession for this festival become stronger resulted I and my husband both joined hands with equal excitement and decided to grab the opportunity to do Sewa of Ganpati Bappa for certain days at our own home. I tried my best to collect all the right and bit convenient information regarding, the rituals and customs related to pooja, vidhi of immersion and all, and eventually brought eco-friendly Ganpati at home. Choosing eco-friendly idol, I believe is the first step of the sense of responsibility towards Ganpati Worship, which, one should never ignore before moving forward.
Here I am sharing some pics of my Ganpati celebration every year. In every pic you can easily see my learning stage of deco, only the excitement of this festive celebration remains the same every year means at peak.
I would like to mention that Decoration’s idea and credit straight goes to my husband and his creativity. I enjoy each and everything during this season from making modak, to preparing prasad thali, meeting friends, performing aarti together, going to their place for Ganpati darshan and aarti, etc.
After 5 days of celebration on the 5th day, the saddest part of this celebration comes i.e. immersion. it’s the time we say bye to Bappa by making a promise to keep his hands and blessings on us and our home, till the time he comes to meet us again next year. I prefer to do the immersion process in the bucket at my home only.
I must confess here that as a responsible citizen I always promoted to keep our rivers and ponds water clean and prefer to do immersion of idols at home into the bucket only,but I never do it on my own, here in the USA when I started doing immersion at home I too promised myself whenever I will be back to India I am going to continue my this tradition there too.
After the completion of the immersion process we all friends eat prasad and some refreshments together, just to give a happy ending to the Ganpati festival.
It’s all about my way of Ganpati celebration.will come up some more interesting topics.
Stay Tuned!!!!
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Wow!! You have kept pictures of all the years. I could feel the passion with which you prepare your home to invite Lord Ganesha every year. Heartwarming post
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Ganapti festival marks happiness in every one’s life. Very beautiful decoration, wish I could see more clearly if images were little larger in size.
Thank you MeenalSonal for liking and read this.
Ganpati festival has some significant importance in my life and your ganpati madap looks so mesmerizing indeed.
Ganpati is one of my fav festival …looks so beautiful decoration and seems you had a great family time
Thanks for the read Ruchi.
Such lovely pics of the celebrations. It’s indeed a joyous festival.
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Thank you for the read Charu.
beautiful pictures friend
thank you so much Arti.
Thank you Arti.
Such a warm description. Festivals are definitely a lovely time
Yes Leha festivals energize me.Thanks for the read.
Agree to you Leha.Thanks for visiting.
I loved the decoration. I felt like being a part of the celebration while reading it.
Glad to know that you liked it Nazish ,thank you.
It’s good to see pictures of Ganesha idol from all the years and I agree to immersion in an eco-friendly way.
Thanks Rohan for the read.
Thank you for making us a part of your celebrations through your blog, loved every bit of it and the fact how our celebrations should not become a hazard to our eco system and if thought well like you did , each one of us can do our bit.
Thanks Vashi for the read and agreeing with the thoughts.
Wow ! Beautifully written, it was feeling that ganesh chaturthi is yet to come, superb write up
Glad you liked it Rajesh.Thanks.
Kudos to you for taking such an eco-friendly approach to Ganesh Chaturthi. If only every Indian thought in the same way. I’m glad that you’re keeping the tradition alive from across the seas. 😄
Thanks Shweta for such a lovely words.
We celebrate Ganpati too. When you have true desire from heart God always shows you the path. Glad you are able to celebrate it.
Thanks Manisha for the read and sharing positive thoughts.
Nice celebrations and a very responsible celebration too..
Thanks for the read Aadhirai .
Beautiful! I feel that every festival brings a family closer. 🙂
Thanks for stopping by Sushmita, I strongly agree with your thoughts.
I get so fascinated with Bappa.. May be will get him home next year. In north india, its not much in culture
Thanks for the read Misha ,hope you get an opportunity to bring Bappa At your home very soon.
I also belong to U.P but lived in Pune for 5years.. I loved that place and the vibes during ganpati is so amazing… So I can relate to you pretty well.. I am also planning to get Ganpati hi to our home in near future whenever we are ready
Good to know that we both belong to UP , Hope you will get an opportunity very soon to bring Bappa at your home.
Great to see u celebrating so well abroad too and u have the pics of the past years to. I feel the same about immersion. This year I didnt do the puja due to some problems. Ganpati Bappa Moriya! #wordsmithkaurreads #BlogChatter #MyFriendAlexa
Thanks for the like and read Harjeetji , Ganpati Bappa Morya.
Every festival is becomes more enjoyable when you celebrate it with family and friends. It seems you had s lovely time. Thanks for sharing this. #MyFriendAlexa #CloudandSunshineReads
The images of each year of the ganpati decoration is really nice. And yes water pollution can be reduced if the idols of ganpati are immersed at home.
Indian festivals are jubilant and very lively. Only that of we get a little sensitive towards environment and our next door neighbors, things will get more merrier.
Noise pollution or water they end up creating a ruckus instead of joy for many. We love Bappa and this time decided to have no DJ and high volume music during the festivities.
A virtual tour for every year’s Celebration gives that sense of instant peace and happiness 🙂 I loved the way every year it was minimal yet classy at the same time.
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such an awesome celebration, had a great time while reading about Ganesh utsav celebration..we too have similar kind of celebration at home and yes immersion make feel us sad, #Surbhireads #Myfriendalexa
I had previously read your post on Teej and let me compliment you for celebrating all festivals with so much enthusiasm!!
my fav festival and my fav lord Ganesh post so well written.
In this part of the country, Ganpati Festival is more of a show off and made of unbelievable logics. Like, we have always brought PU Ganpati in our house so it will be not good if we will bring mitti ka ganpati this year. People simply want show off and dance on streets that’s it. Noone knows the real ritual.
This was so beautiful. The eco-friendly Ganesha and visarajan is call of the hour.
Enjoyed your post. Thank you for sharing your memories with us. You have some beautiful pictures there.
This is such a beautiful write up with memories spanning across several years. I enjoyed your pictures and descriptions.
This post made me really nostalgic. Thank you for sharing many pictures which you accumulated over the years.
Enjoyed reading your post and the Ganesha pictures are lovely!:)
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This is thoughtful of you to celebrate the festival so nicely. I am just going aww about your sweets. The modak looks yumm
and this is awesome! Bappa brings lots of positive vibes with him!
Wow! you celebrate the festival with fun and eco-conscious way. The addition of pictures from past years added beauty to the post.
A very nice post. Festivals always create good memories. I loved to see all the pics.
And the festivities have officially started! #myepicareads #MyFriendAlexa
It’s really nice feeling to celebrate festivals with full on spirit and fun, how you have made the celebration more happier with clay ganpati and doing visarjan at home. It’s really nice way to save environment and celebrate too.
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Wow nice..let the festive season begin..
That’s a wonderful idea to keep the memory alive through pictures. Kudos for thinking about the environment during festivals.
Great post. I think the idea of eco-friendly Ganesha is very good and should be opted by everyone so that pollution can be reduced. #MyFriendAlexa #ShubhraReads
Loved reading and seeing photos of your Ganpati celebrations through the ears. May he always shower you with his blessings!
Loved the post
गणपतिः बप्पा मोरया
Vibes are so strong
Its so sweet of you to cherish those pictures. The decoration looks wonderful. I am also in USA form last 13 years. We don’t do Ganapati Sthapana here but I do make Modak.
wow post and lovely pics of Ganpati of all these years
we both connect on this post a lot as I had also written similar posts
I also support the eco-friendly version and this year my kiddo also made Ganesha with clay to support the cause
https://praguntatwa.com/2019/09/06/ganpati-bappa-morya/
https://praguntatwa.com/2018/09/13/ganesh-chaturthi/
Such a heartwarming and nostalgic post. The pictures, saved over the years add to the beautiful write up.
Thank you Sonia glad to know you liked it!
I loved reading your post. It’s so nice that your are following your tradition. I loved all the beautiful Ganpati pictures and it is so nice that you bring the eco friendly Bappa home. Only if everyone takes care of the environment, our world will be better place to live !
Thank you Simrit for stopping by,Yes I love to turn all the traditions into fun!
this is a great explanation and narration of the festival and it also sounds like you really enjoyed.
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Thanks Princy for the read!Yes I thoroughly enjoy festivals.
Wow it’s so nice to see all the pics and I really hope people get conscious about environment like you are.
Thank you Arushi for dropping in, yes I strongly believe in “if you want a change be the change!”
It’s lovely that you are able to keep our traditions alive for your family far from home. I love the decorations; your husband is creative…
really awesome that you have kept snaps of all years Bappa, when bappa goes the home feels so empty. your effort to conserve nature is also amazing.