Written a year back on Ganesh Chaturthi
Ever since the ascent of mankind, people would have started thinking of putting some guideline to make them live within the terminus ad quem. This would have motivated people to make some philosophy of life. Probably different philosophy had given birth to various religions. Hinduism is one such philosophy which I believe is more of the way of life. Hinduism gives such a liberty to its partisans to modify it as per the need of time, without hampering the soul of the basic philosophy. But sometimes, the liberty becomes that much boundary less that it starts giving you itching in your soul.
Ganesh Festival is having its own history in our country. Though Lord Ganesha is as old as any Ved or Upnishad or probably more than that. But, in our country, it is believed that Bal Gangadhar Tilak was the person who had started making the celebration of this festival larger, in view of creating a national integration during the rising tension between Hindu and Muslims in the country. Lord Ganesha is one of the most experimented Gods in Hindu Religion. I mean, artists have experimented a lot on the structure of Lord Ganesha in their sculpture or paintings.
These days when Ganesh Festival is commencing, lot of festival pandal can be seen in every nooks and corner of Raipur. I don’t know about the astha or belief of the people, but the statues of Lord are something which is beyond our imagination. If at some place the idol is being limned as software professional with the laptop in his hand instead of modak, then at some other place he is being represented as the hippy, at some place as politician than at some other place people have imagined him as the freedom fighter. The worst is that, at some place the lord is being shown sitting on tiger or on eagle which is beyond any mythological sayings.
Great. Total respect for the emotions of people for the Lord. But isn’t this the way of making fun of the belief of the dharma rather then showing the astha over the god. Though the present stature of god is also imaginations of human. Perhaps no one has witnessed the lord. Neither anyone of that time, if any, had transcripted that how god was looking like. But the ancient visualization of the stature of lord Ganesha or any god is having some strong philosophy and explanation that don’t have any in today’s people’s creativity towards transforming the stature of the lord.
The liberty of Hinduism could not and should not be misused like this. This really hurts me a lot. While seeing such idol, rather than bowing infront of the lord, it gives me a kind of wrath towards the unnecessary creativity of the makers of the idol. I think there has to be a kind of policing over these things by the society so that we should pass on good and great things to our children rather than giving them a very strange form of dharma which in due course of time would become the story of history and the Hinduism would be lost in the books only.
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