Ganpati Festival In Mumbai | Celebrating Lord Ganesh Festival

“The hype festival attracting lakhs of people, Ganpati (Lord Ganesh) festival is celebrated with high passion by Major Ganesh Mandal and also Individuals at Home..”

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About Ganesh festival and Chaturthi, Visarjan  celebration in Mumbai

Festival of lord ganesha is the most happening festival in Mumbai, Its the birthday of Lord Ganesha son of lord shiva. This festive season come in September and well known for ganapati decoration and mandap organizers who decorates and builds up a temporary 10 days mandup to place the idol (ganesh murti) with all lightings. Basically you will refer this guys as Ganesh mandal or Ganpati Mitra mandal of Mumbai.

This occasion is celebrated by every hindu and also other castes and religion who believes in. But the most rituals are done by Maharastrians, (i.e Marathi families), this festival of ganesha is at highest priority for them.

Hindu peoples like Gujarati and Marathi keeps lord Ganesh idol for worship at there home and do Aarti (prayers) daily twice. There are many names of lord Ganesha, few of them are Ganpati, Vigna Harta, Bappa, vakratunda, and lots more.

Best part is the decoration at every home, a small temple specially made. Sometime simple with fruits and fire light (deep, divas) near and sometime a complete theme and a unique story presentation in few mandal, which shows different realities and mythological dramas, like Mumbai life, Ganesha with Father Shiva and mother parvati playing with lots of other gods. This is a part of decoration to be looked unique in the festive.

People keep idol for 1 and half day ganesh pooja, 5 days, 7 days and 10 days depends upon capabilities and time they can devote to god. On the last day (Ganesh visarjan day) people chant “Ganpati bappa moriya, Pudcya varshi luvker ya”, which means dear ganesha we pray to you and request you to come again next year with lots of blessing and love. The crowd at Different places goes in LAKHS while visarjan (idol is finaly given to mother river) by devotees. People Comes in Lakhs together to enjoy the unique day of enjoyment where you can see idols of different heights and lengths like 9 feet, 25 feet, 50 feet and huge. Complete Road is blocked, with proper Mumbai police management. Lots of video cameras for security and also people get snaps/pictures/photos of Ganesh visarjan from chowpatty nad other places for future memory.

Best places for Ganesh Decoration in Mumbai are : Khetwadi (1 to 7 lanes) each lanes with unique decorations, lalbaug (called as ‘Lalbaugcha raja’) which means king of lalbaug, Dadar and almost in every few kilometers distance all over Mumbai and india.

admin @ September 17, 2009