Ganesh Chaturthi – Short Essay 1.
Ganesh Chaturthi is a festival in India that is celebrated for the birth of Lord Ganesh, the remover of all obstacles. It marks the arrival of Lord Ganesh to people’s homes for 10 days.
Apart from being a family oriented festival, it has much more importance as a public festival in different parts of India.
Ganesh is the elephant headed God, the son of Parvati and Shiva. He is a very popular god for his image as removing all obstacles and bestowing wisdom and prosperity. He is believed to be easy to please and answering prayers more easily.
Family and Ganesh Chaturthi
People bring idols of Ganesha on this day with a lot of celebration. After installing the idol and worshipping it with flowers fruits and sweets, people visit each other to get blessings from Ganesha. Ganesh likes sweets called modak so it is to be found almost in each house. Blade of durva grass and the hibiscus flowers are considered his favourite. People sing aartis along with the bells and small cymbals. Sweets are distributed after each aarti. Families immerse their Ganesh idol either after one and a half day or 5 days or sometimes after 10 days. Many people recite the Ganapati Atharvashirsha on this or the next 10 days and immersing his idol in water at the end of his stay.
Public and Ganesh Chaturthi
Ganesh Chaturthi is one of the biggest publicly celebrated festivals in India. People collect donations in their areas to buy a Ganesh idol. Large pandals are set up for the next ten days. This pandal is usually made ready much in advance with decorations and lighting and sometimes as a replica of some famous temple or palace. People bring the idol in a procession amid a lot of dancing, drums and fire crackers. After a small ritual, the idol is installed in the pandal usually on a small stage. Sweets are distributed to everyone who comes to take blessings. This being the first day, excitement is at its peak.
The festivities that start on Ganesh Chaturthi end on the tenth day by immersion of the idol amid processions and celebrations.
Politics is often involved in this since the pandals are very frequently sponsored by political parties in a bid to garner more votes by impressing the people.
Conclusion and Ganesh Chaturthi
Ganesh Chaturthi, although a religious festival, starts off a period of fun and many programs and competitions.
By jahanvi (2018)
Ganesh Chaturthi – Short Essay 2.
Introduction
Ganesh Chaturthi is also called the Vinayaka Chaturthi or Vinayaka Chavithi. It serves as a day for the Hindu festival when they celebrate the birth of Ganesha. It comes between the months of August or September. This festival is marked through the installation of Ganesha idols in the homes of people but when it is in a public sense then it involves installation of Ganesha idols on pandals. It forms one of India’s best and most important festivals that are engaged with a lot of devotion.
What is Ganesh Chaturthi?
Ganesh Chaturthi is witnessed as the birthday of the Hindu Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed son of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati. Lord Ganesha serves as the symbol of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune.
How many days does Ganesh Chaturthi last?
The day of Ganesh Chaturthi falls on the Shukla Chaturthi in the Hindu month of Bhadrapada. This is August or September every year. This festival lasts for up to 11 days. The largest and grandest of the eleven days is the last one which is referred to as the Anant Chaturdasi.
Importance
- It also serves as means to bring people together to share meals and partake of the good tidings and the promise of good fortune that Lord Ganesha
- It is a holy festival and therefore plays an important role in the spiritual life of each and every Hindu believer.
- It serves to give honor to the elephant headed god Ganesha to mark the celebration of the day when he was born.
How celebrations are done in schools?
This day is also marked and celebrated with a lot of reverence in schools. They mark this day by sharing activities that involve sweets, music, color and wearing of traditional attire all these accompanied with fun and merry.
Conclusion
Given the fact that this is a religious festival, it requires a lot of respect and honest enthusiasm mainly because sometimes things are not important because of how we do it so much as why we do it. Coming up with ideas that you can use to mark and celebrate Ganesha Chaturthi is important because it is a sign of respect and honor. The prosperity, good fortune and promise of wealth are some of the blessings that Ganesha represents and celebrating this day therefore makes us proclaim our reception of the good tidings.
By Mary (2019)
Last updated: June 20, 2019.