My favorite festival is here. Yesterday I shared some pictures about the decorations I made for the festival. Today morning we completed all the rituals and Pooja and our beloved Lord Ganeshji is at our home now. I always look forward to this festival every year and at the same time I am very nervous also. There is so much to do for these 2 days festival and I am always scared, what if I forget somethings, but with Lord Ganeshji's grace every year it goes smooth and I am hoping this year too it will.
Today morning our priest arrived at 9 a.m. but before that I had to prepare everything for the pooja and keep, so I had a early morning start. Once the priest arrived he made me and hubby perform the pooja and we completed all the rituals. It took us almost one and half hour, and everything went well.
Through out the day I have someone or the other coming over for seeking blessings of Lord Ganesha. I normally tell everyone to avoid afternoon time, so that I can rest up for some time, because evening is again busy with another rituals and most of the people come in the evening time. We also prepare some food to serve to all our guests. Quite a lot of people I meet only once a year on this day when they come for the aarti. In the aarti we together sing devotional songs in the ceremony. The atmosphere is highly energetic.
Here is our Lord Ganesha, we will have him for 2 days in our home and then tomorrow late evening we will do the visarajan ceremony, it's kind of a farewell ceremony.
All our pooja items are set
The priest is making me and hubby perform the pooja
This is before we put the Ganesha on his place, where he will be for 2 days. The idol is made of natural clay, which dissolves instantly in water.
Hubby is doing some rituals
Me and hubby doing the ceremony together.
After the ceremony, all the food offerings are made.
Now afternoon time I am going to rest up. My sciatica pain is relieved but when there is lot of physical exertion then there is a little discomfort in the hips and legs, so I need to rest up, because since the past 2 days and today morning there has been lot of physical stress.
I will see you all tomorrow with more updates of the festival.
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