Yesterday, I along with my 2 company mates (Prashant and Konda) had a great Vinayak chaturthi darshan. We have planned to visit Sidhi Vinayak temple at Dadar. As per our planning, we started early morning and the traveling was nearly one and half-hours from our place of stay (and that too in the early morning 6 am). We reached the temple at 8 am but could not enter the temple premises, as there was a long queue. We had to wait in that long queue for our darshan, which simulated a mini Tirupathi experience. After nearly a 2-hour wait, we had the darshan of Ganesh bhagwan. The darshan was very short because the security-in-charges forced/requested people to move fast to facilitate darshan for all the devotees. An inevitable situation! . Now you know why I said it as a mini Tirupathi experience. After all, sizeable Mumbai population was there that day waiting for Ganapathi Baba's darshan.
We could see the Star, Zee, Sahara TV personnel busily preparing for their 10 sec archive to be featured during the TV news of their respective TV Channels. Contrary to what we see in the channels, these professional were all tensed and were practicing the sentences like small kids preparing their nursery rhymes. Reality is altogether different from what we see in Television.
After the Darshan, we had plenty of time at our disposal. So we thought of visiting the Maha Lakshmi temple, another happening place at Mumbai. The divine darshan of Devi Ma brought a great satisfaction to our spiritual minds. The temple is situated at the banks of the sea. Though we could not experience the freshness and energy of the sea waves (the temple authorities have built a very strong fence to enable only a "See sea experience"), the very sight of the sea itself has instantly refreshed our memories. Thousands of chloromint at one chew ;)
Then we did a little shopping and finally returned back to our guesthouse. The time was 7:00 pm. There was a Ganesh Bajan happening at adjacent apartments. Oh boy. I can’t ask for anymore. The bajan session was a perfect culmination to the days’ activities. It was really a great Ganesh Chaturthi festival and will definitely be an experience to remember. :)
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Hi Dude,
Was amazin day when we left out & when we landed back . we were found still enthu.
Never gave up till last :)
Bye
Pra Shanth
hi ,
I really enjoyed reading your description of the way you celebrated
Ganesh Chaturthi.As for me,I didn't go out anywhere.We had a ganesh pooja
within the premises of our building.I attended that in the morning.It went
on till about 1:30 in the afternoon..After that we visited a house on the
fourth floor of our building since they'd also brought a ganpati at their
place.They had also arranged lunch for all the guests.In the evening again I
attanded the aarti in the building compund and again visited another house
in a different wing.They had arranged for dinner.So we had our dinner there
after which my parents went home and I sat in the building mandap till about
11:00,distributing prasad to the visitors..That was it as far as my ganesh
chaturthi is concerned.(Free lunch and dinner to sum it up :))
Woow,
this was a trerrfic exposure of traveling in mumbai hots..
with a cool frinds..
Prashanth
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