Matha Gitananda Ashram

                     TRADITIONAL HINDU MONASTERY

Ganesha Chaturthi

This festivity is the most sacred day dedicated to Ganesha and one of the most popular Hindu celebrations across India, as well as for those Hindu devotees who live around the world because Ganesha is loved and worshipped everywhere. Under his good auspices, Ganesha is worshipped at the beginning of each prayer, and His name is repeated at the beginning of any job.
During these holy days, there is a wonderful atmosphere of happiness in the villages, every image of Ganesha is adorned with flowers and precious clothes, every small temple offers an opportunity for the crowds to gather and stop before this benevolent and reassuring image. Representations of the divinity are created in terracotta, plaster or papier-mâché, painted by hand with the most exquisite colors. They are adorned for a period between two to ten days, then immersed in the waters of the sea, or a river, or a lake or in the temples’ tanks. In Maharastra, besides public worship, public theatrical representations of stories are performed, extracted from the Puranas, in which Ganesha is the protagonist.

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