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Happy Ganesh Chaturthi🤗
|Ganpati Bappa Morya! Pudhchya Varshi Lavkar Ya!|
So first off all my dearest wishes to all for this festival!
Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated across the country; but is celebrated the most in Maharashtra with enthusiasm and full fervor! This is the occasion when we tend to forget all differences we have with any one; our friends, relatives, everyone for that matter.
Ganesha Chaturthi, the great Ganesha festival, also known as 'Vinayak Chaturthi' or 'Vinayaka Chavithi' is celebrated by Hindus around the world as the birthday of Lord Ganesha. It is observed during the Hindu month of Bhadra (mid-August to mid-September) and the grandest and most elaborate of them, especially in the western India state of Maharashtra, lasts for 10 days, ending on the day of 'Ananta Chaturdashi'.
According to Hindu mythology; it is the birth day of Ganesha who is widely worshipped as the god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune. The festival is observed in the Hindu calendar month of Bhaadrapada, starting on the shukla chaturthi (fourth day of the waxing moon period). The date usually falls between 20 August and 15 September. The festival lasts for 10 days, ending on Anant Chaturdashi (fourteenth day of the waxing moon period).
It's a belief that the festival was started by the Great Maratha King Shivaji Maharaj! To promote culture and nationalism. And it had continued ever since. There are also references in history to similar celebrations during Peshwa times. It is believed that Lord Ganapati was the family deity of the Peshwas. After the end of Peshwa rule, Ganesh Chaturthi remained a family affair in Maharashtra from the period of 1818 to 1892.
Though there are also records of the earliest Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations can be traced back to the times of the reigns of dynasties asSatavahana, the Rashtrakuta and the Chalukya!
In 1893, Indian freedom fighter and social reformer Lokmanya Tilak transformed the annual domestic festival into a large, well-organized public event.
Tilak recognized the wide appeal of the deity Ganesh as "the god for everybody", and popularized Ganesh Chaturthi as a national festival in order "to bridge the gap between Brahmins and 'non-Brahmins' and find a context in which to build a new grassroots unity between them", and generate nationalistic fervor among people in Maharashtra against the British colonial rule.
Tilak encouraged installation of large public images of Ganesh in pavilions, and also established the practice of submerging in rivers, sea, or other pools of water all public images of the deity on the tenth day after Ganesh Chaturthi.
Under Tilak's encouragement, the festival facilitated community participation and involvement in the form of intellectual discourses, poetry recitals, performances of plays, musical concerts, and folk dances. It served as a meeting ground for people of all castes and communities in times when, in order to exercise control over the population, the British discouraged social and political gatherings.
In Mahashtra; a day before the Ganesh Chaturthi; "Haratalika" is celebrated! It's a festival; in which unmarried girls fast so they can have future husbands like God Shiva! Even I do the fast; and hope I get a good one!
So hope you have a good time with your family! May Ganesha Bless you!
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