first time Ganpati celebration in our home

First time Ganpati Celebration in our Home

First, we had Ganpati idol in our grandfather’s house. But this year 2019 our family decided to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi in our home at Sangli and we had Ganpati idol in our home. Then we went to our grandfather’s village and took guidance from him how to perform Ganesh puja. Due to our love for nature, we decided to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi eco-friendly.
 

Our family especially I and my sister were too much excited about Bappa. We went to the market and we were looking for beautiful Ganesh idol. After visiting a couple of stores we liked one beautiful Ganesh idol. we purposefully looked for a Ganpati idol made of soil instead of plaster of Paris (pop) because Ganpati idol made of soil easily dissolves in water so water pollution is avoided but Ganpati idol made of plaster of Paris on the other side do not dissolve in water and there is water pollution. Ganpati idol made of plaster of Paris are gave back by the rivers in the summer season .our Ganpati was very beautiful. It had a swastika on hand, it wore a dhoti of pink colour, it wore a shawl of orange colour and also its colour was pure skin. Then we went to buy a new table to keep Ganpati idol on it. Then we brought decorative things to decorate the table.


Then the day came when all the people brought Ganpati idol to their home
We brought Ganpati with full of excitement. Then we called a pandit to perform our puja. Then the puja finished the first day we did naivedya of ‘panchkhadya’, 

Second-day ‘chiroti’
Third-day ‘modak’

Fourth-day ‘kadbu’ and 

Fifth-day ‘laddood’.We performed arti twice a day .during the festival our relatives came in our home to take darshan of Ganpati we did our Ganpati visarjan at fifth day evening after doing Uttar puja in a well near our home. I was fully exited during the whole festival
      

[Soham Dinkar Kulkarni]