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Shree Ganesh is a god Which is worship first among all the other god.In every

Auspicious ceremony worship of God Ganpati(Ganesh) is must.According to Hindu

Religion ganpati is "Vidhna Harta" God means it Prevents Obstacles to comeing

across Auspicious ceremony & provides Success to his Devotees. so to get

success in each and every field of life God Ganesh is worshiped First and

foremost.Now we Talk About "Ganesh Utsav" it is Ganesh Chaturthi it is a day

when God Ganesh is Born According to Hindu religion. Ganesh Chatruthi is

celebrated allover india from Kashmir to Kanya kumari.Now How Ganesh Come in to

Existance ? It is Too Difficlut to say because some of Religious book say

something and other say something However the Fact is that Shiv father of God

Ganesha was remain in meditation in forest & he has gave boon to His Wife

Parvati (Ganesh Mother) that you can able to create doll from your body dirt

and also give soul to it.Parvati has do the same & god Ganesh Has come in

existance. Now at One day as Mother parvati's Command God Ganesh is on the

door.To Keep Watch that no one enter in.At that time god shiv father of Ganesh

has came and as Ganesh Don't Know him he Stop Him to entering so God Shiv Lost

His Temprament and Their is Fighting Among him and God Shiv has Cut down Head

of God Ganesh. Parvati, returning from her bath, saw her headless son and

threatened in her rage to destroy the heavens and the earth, so great was her

sorrow. Shiva pacified her and instructed his followers (known as ganas) to

bring the head of the first living being they encounter. The first creature

they encountered was an elephant. They thus cut off its head and placed it on

the body of Parvati's son and breathed life into him. Thus overjoyed, Parvati

embraced her son. The son of Parvati was given the name Ganesha by Shiva. The

word Ganesha is made up of gana (followers of Shiva) and isha (lord), thus

Shiva appointed him the lord of his ganas. Ganesha is usually depicted either

as a pictograph or as an idol with the body of a man and the head of an

elephant, having only one tusk, the other tusk appearing broken. His unique

feature, besides the elephant head, is the large belly practically falling over

his lower garment. On his chest, across his left shoulder, is his sacred thread,

often in the form of a snake. The vehicle of Ganesha is the mouse, often seen

paying obeisance to his lord. The most striking feature of Ganesha is his

elephant head, symbolic of auspiciousness, strength and intellectual prowess.

All the qualities of the elephant are contained in the form of Ganpati. The

elephant is the largest and strongest of animals of the forest. Yet he is

gentle and, amazingly, a vegetarian, so that he does not kill to eat. He is

very affectionate and loyal to his keeper and is greatly swayed if love and

kindness are extended to him. Ganesha, though a powerful deity, is similarly

loving and forgiving and moved by the affection of his devotees. But at the

same time the elephant can destroy a whole forest and is a one-man army when

provoked. Ganesha is similarly most powerful and can be ruthless when

containing evil. Again, Ganesha's large head is symbolic of the wisdom of the

elephant. His large ears, like the winnow, sift the bad from the good. Although

they hear everything, they retain only that which is good; they are attentive to

all requests made by the devotees, be they humble or powerful. Ganesha's trunk

is a symbol of his discrimination (viveka), a most important quality necessary

for spiritual progress. The elephant uses its trunk to push down a massive

tree, carry huge logs to the river and for other heavy tasks. The same huge

trunk is used to pick up a few blades of grass, to break a small coconut,

remove the hard nut and eat the soft kernel inside. The biggest and minutest of

tasks are within the range of this trunk which is symbolic of Ganesha's

intellect and hiss powers of discriminationWhen Parashurama one of Shiva's

favorite disciples, came to visit him, he found Ganesha guarding Shiva's inner

apartments. His father being asleep, Ganesha opposed Parshurama's entry.

Parashurama nevertheless tried to urge his way, and the parties came to blows.

Ganesha had at first the advantage, seizing Parashurama in his trunk, and

giving him a twirl that left him sick and senseless; on recovering, Rama threw

his axe at Ganesha, who recognizing it as his father's weapon (Shiva having

given it to Parashurama) received it with all humility upon one of his tusks,

which it immediately severed, and hence Ganesha has but one tusk. A different

legend narrates that Ganesha was asked to scribe down the epic of Mahabharata,

dictated to him by its author, sage Vyasa. Taking into note the enormity and

significance of the task, Ganesha realized the inadequacy of any ordinary 'pen'

to undertake the task. He thus broke one of his own tusks and made a pen out of

it. The lesson offered here is that no sacrifice is big enough in the pursuit

of knowledge. The little mouse whom Ganesha is supposed to ride upon is another

enigmatic feature in his iconography. At a first glance it seems strange that

the lord of wisdom has been granted a humble obsequious mouse quite incapable

of lifting the bulging belly and massive head that he possesses. But it implies

that wisdom is an attribute of ugly conglomeration of factors and further that

the wise do not find anything in the world disproportionate or ugly. The mouse

is, in every respect, comparable to the intellect. It is able to slip

unobserved or without our knowledge into places which we would have not thought

it possible to penetrate. In doing this it is hardly concerned whether it is

seeking virtue or vice. The mouse thus represents our wandering, wayward mind,

lured to undesirable or corrupting grounds. By showing the mouse paying

subservience to Lord Ganesha it is implied that the intellect has been tamed

through Ganesha's power of discrimination. Ganesha is thus the ONLY god to be

associated in a "physical" sense with the primordial sacred sound AUM, a

telling reminder of his supreme position in the Hindu pantheon.And Also in Our

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