What makes ganesha happy

Lord Ganesha is one of the most worshipped deities in the Hindu religion and is also known as Vighnaharta, which means, remover of obstacles. His symbolic figurine has an elephant's head with a curved trunk and big ears on a big human body. A mouse is his chosen vehicle and his favorite offering is laddus. He is also the first to be worshipped during any auspicious event. It is believed that the blessings of Lord Ganesha are the most powerful ones.

Here are 8 benefits you can gain by worshiping Lord Ganesha: 1. Prosperity Everyone wants a healthy and prosperous life. When you offer prayers to Lord Ganesha, you tend to work towards achieving success.

You will find that your determination towards achieving your goals is elevated. This Ganesh Chaturthi, pledge to do these six things do if you really want to please Lord Ganesha.

L ord Ganesha is one of the most revered and admired deities in India. While modaks, various pujas, processions and visarjan are all synonymous with Ganesh Chaturthi, here are a few things every Ganesha bhakt can do to celebrate this festival in its true sense. Nearly 25 per cent people in India are still illiterate. If you're able to read these lines, you clearly cannot imagine what it's like to be devoid of that skill.

What better way to please the lord of letters than learning something new? It could be as simple as reading a new book or taking up a new hobby. You can, in fact, go a step further and help those who cannot afford it. There are several organisations working to help educate slum kids.

Why not start off with buying books for your maid's child? What makes Lord Ganesha one of the most endearing figures in Hindu mythology is his pure love for food. While you make an elaborate plan to please your taste buds during this festive season, spare a thought for the hungry.

Even better, spare them a morsel. Only those Ganesh deities that are ritually worshipped are immersed. There then seems to be a level of inalienability that relates to the materiality of the deity itself. Aspects of this will be addressed in the sections that follow. There are two reasons for the practice of immersion, though I am not able to tell which one is more popular or more accurate. It is said that he is immersed in order to send him back home to Mount Kailash.

It is also said that the process of immersion is considered a proper way of disposing of the deity or rather a way of its safekeeping. Offerings in the form of flowers, given to the deity during rituals are disposed off in a similar fashion. This is because, in being offered to the deity during worship, these flowers imbue some sacred quality.

Thus they cannot be carelessly discarded and are therefore appropriately tended to. This then raises questions about those qualities of water that make it an appropriate safekeeping medium for the sacred. But that is separate discussion that falls outside the purview of this discussion.

The consideration of the sacred within a Hindu context is open to multiple interpretations. In trying to make sense of Hinduism, I have always found it useful to view it as a religion made up of several strains of ideas that originate with a particular deity or one of its forms.

There is no doubt that it is a sacred object because it is a representation of a god. They are widely collected. My mother collects them. She says she only does it because she finds them aesthetically pleasing and views them as artefacts. She has never used them as objects of worship though she has never thrown away a Ganesh given to her whatever its materiality and craftsmanship.

Godelier says that the imaginary is essential for the construction of social reality and this reality cannot crystallise or reproduce itself without myth. It is this foundation myth that is at the core of the sacred object Godelier, It is these ideas I feel are at work when the Ganesh deity is considered, but there is a difference in the way in which he talks about these ideas and the way that I want to apply them to this particular object.

This is because he only examines the nature of the sacred as specifically corresponding with an origin of society.