Ganpati Sthapana at my mothers place

Ganpati festival was always taken seriously at my places . For us the Ganpati festival always started a week in advance with stocking of groceries , grinding of fresh flours , visit to the flower markets , visit to the vegetable market and the list is endless.

as i write this blog i can still vaguely smell the fresh flowers from the flower market especially the Lotus flower . My dad evaluated each and every Lotus flower based on the length of the stem  and the diameter of the bud before buying it .The haggling used to continue till the vendor finally used to pack us off from his shop with an extra Lotus flower for all the purchases we made.



I remember aromas floating from our small kitchen into our forever hungry nostrils .

Under the strict supervision of my mom she ensured that we were all bathed and ready much before the Ganpati Sthapana happened.

For my mother Ganapati prasad making was the biggest and the most important task of the day and for that single day she was oblivious of every one around her including her three daughters .

The entire family use to focus on getting the 

Ganpati Festival

Ganpati Festival always starts with such a fervor every year , the enthusiasm of people is so overwhelming that somewhere it makes a deep Impact on everybodies minds.

Ganpati is and has always been a favorite of Gods for me , our association started during my engineering days where before every result i would religiously visit the dagadusheth temple asking him to shower his blessings on me in the form of a good result.

In all my naivity i believed such a thing could happen but surprisingly it worked for me and i was out with flying colours , call it underestimation of my efforts and intellegience and an overestimation of the supernatural power :)