Ganesh Festival

Ganesh festival

We celebrate ganesh festival on August/September month. His birthday is celebrated all over India .This festival is celebrated for 10 days from Ganesh Chathurthi to Anantchaturdashi

People clean and decorate the houses with mandap and garlands.They bring the ganesh idol on that day with beatingdrums and music. They install Lord Ganapthi and do puja. Make prasad like Modak and do arathi.

There are many public mandals celebrating this festival. People visit many pandals where different ganapathis are installed during this festival.

Invite relatives and friends to their houses to participate in the function.Ganesh is worshipped for 3 days/5 days or 10 days .On the 11th day, the Idol is taken through the streets in a procession accompanied with dancing, singing, to be immersed in a river or the sea chanitng ""Ganapathi Bappa Morya, Purchya Varshi Laukariya" (O father Ganesha, come fast early next year).

Check these sites out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Chaturthi
http://www.baps.org/festivals/ganeshchaturthi/

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion."

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

There are no great things, only small things with great love.
Happy are those.- Mother Theresa


Happiness keeps You Sweet,
Trials keep You Strong,
Sorrows keep You Human,
Failures keeps You Humble,
Success keeps You Glowing,
But Only God keeps You Going!
You are so special!


Count your blessings instead of your crosses;
Count your gains instead of your losses.
Count your joys instead of your woes;
Count your friends instead of your foes.
Count your smiles instead of your tears;
Count your courage instead of your fears.
Count your full years instead of your lean;
Count your kind deeds instead of your mean.
Count your health instead of your wealth;
Count on God instead of yourself.

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Thoughts

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

Swami Vivekananda.

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Mother Sri Sri Sarada Devi

Ninety percent of thought-force is wasted by the ordinary human being, and therefore, he is constantly committing blunders; the trained man or mind never makes a mistake.

Swami Vivekananda.

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Mother Sri Sri Sarada Devi

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not patience to practise it."
Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.



Arise, Awake and stop not till the goal is reached."



"Religion is the idea which is raising the brute unto man, and man unto God"


Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not patience to practise it."


Death is better than a vegetating ignorant life; it is better to die on the battle-field than to live a life of defeat.

Swami Vivekananda.

To become great one must be humble. The tree laden with fruit always bends low. So if you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.

Sri Ramakrishna

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Difficult is to learn from them...



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