Birth of Lord Ganesha

      Lord Ganesha is assumed to be a God of Intelligence. It is a symbol of science.Every year we celebrate Ganesh Festival and it brings joy to everyone .Lord Ganesha is most popular mainly in Maharashtra. You wont find that much craze about Lord Ganesha in south ,north or west side of India. There is a reason why it is so. We have heard many story about Lord Ganesha. Most famous story of Birth of Lord Ganesha is :
Lord Ganesha was created by the sweat of goddess Parvati . Which is unacceptable to me at first place.That means Ganesha is not a biological son of Shankar and Parvati . Shankar was not aware of this creation of parvati and somehow he became angry on him and cut his head (why he did it is another story which I guess everyone might be knowing so I did not mention it here). When Parvati got to know about this, she argued with Shankar and insisted him to bring him alive and then he used a head of baby elephant and attached to Ganesha's dead body and made him alive (That means to make his son alive ,he took life of someone else). I find it funny . That means Gods can go against the rule of Nature. If god has created a Nature and set the rules ,how could he possibly break them . And if Lord Shankar cant control his anger which is a human quality(Anger,Impatient,Selfishness ..etc) then how could he deserved to be devoted and become a god ? Which completely states that this is a story build by a human.Well this is completely new topic and we will discuss about it someday in my new posts. Let us first understand how these stories came and when actually Lord Ganesha came into existence.

     If you see Ramayana and Mahabharata , you wont find anything mentioned anywhere about Lord Ganesha. Even at the era of Gautam Buddha and Mahavir , there are no traces of Lord Ganesha. So when did he actually came into existence ? I tried to find these answer and I personally found that , the existence of  Lord Ganesha came in between 900 -1200  it was even praised during the period of 1200-1400 and praised in Gupta Period but actually got famous at the time of first Bajirao Peshva. If you see, the Ashtavinayaka's (8 avatar's of lord ganesha) can be found near Pune in Maharashtra. Peshve developed Pune and give it a new culture along with new gods which were never existed before. The stories were then created and later on these stories were mixed in Veda's and Upanishida's . The stories of How Lord Ganesh defeated Daityas made him Vighnaharta. Lord Ganesha travels on Mouse(in some idols he travels on peacock, lion and Sesha-the devine serpa and in some sculptures it is without any vahana-it clearly shows how the stories have been made about it. Though later on mouse got famous as his vahana.) which is a symbol of destruction, then how could lord Ganesha possibly be Vighnaharta ? It is found that , during Peshave era , these stories were spread near Pune areas. And we are still following it .(Though there are few references in Tulsi Das's literature and even Ramdaas have praised him ,but I doubt that they might have added later on.)
 
    Lokmanya Tilak later on started Ganesh Festival ,so that people can come together and meet each other. This festival became famous by movies , Actors and Actress and took a wild avatar. The good thing about this god is , though it exists only in stories (at least I believe so ) , people have strong believe on him and they devote him. He is famous from children to old and he is the most lovable God. Basically its a human psychology, when you believe that yes I have offered prayer to god and he is going to listen to me . That gives positive energy to you and which will make things possible ,which you thought are impossible. I will bring some more stories about this in my next posts . Keep visiting ..!!!

About this blog

       This blog is written to share my own thoughts about god with everybody. I am not intended to hurt anybody's sentiments or emotions. These are my personal believes and if someone finds it annoying or against your believes then please ignore this blog . Everyone has its own perception of looking at particular things . This blog is nothing but my perception of looking at God .

      According to me , the definitions of god are very different from any other people . I always ask this question to myself ,does really god exists and if it does exists then in which form ? Does it look like a human or anything else ? I have many questions regarding god ,which I will be sharing with you through this blog. When I was a child , my mother used to tell me ,"God is watching us and if you do wrong thing then god will punish you". Then why don't god punish those terrorists which are still alive and spreading terrorism around the world ? why god don't punish these politicians who are experts of corruption.

      Well , I personally believe that ,god is nothing but an imaginary thing . Many people wont agree with this statement of mine that , 'we created the God and not god created us'; at least those which we can be found in epics , stories and in temples . Many gods of India are migrated from other countries . To give an instance , Lord Dattatraya which is famous in south and few places in India is actually migrated from Egyptian culture . He is very much similar to the Lord Thoth in Egypt and it is found that when Hitler started killing Jews, few of the Jews ran towards Indian oceans and those who could save their lives ,became stable in India and brought their culture in India in different form. Well this is totally different topic and may be will discuss it in our upcoming blogs .

      According to me ,The whole universe represents God . The feeling of being alive is nothing but the existence of God. God might not look like we saw in TV serials or epics and stories. The god that we find in Temples is created by humans . You might find this little hard to digest , because we have started following our ancestors blindly and never actually tried to find out the real truth behind it . One should be able to decide what to follow and what not to . I will bring some more amazing thoughts on gods in my next blogs . Keep reading .