Ganesh Chaturthi 2020: Details about the history, significance & celebration

Ganesh Chaturthi is one of grandest and most celebrated festivals in India. It marks birth of Lord Ganesha. Lord Ganesha is god of new beginnings and a fresh start. This year, Ganesh Chaturthi 2020 will be celebrated on August 22, 2020. On auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, here is everything you need to kw about festival.

Ganesh Chaturthi 2020

Ganesh Chaturthi history

Legend has it that Goddess Parvati made baby Ganesha using sandalwood paste and asked him to guard entrance as she took a bath. When Lord Shiva wanted to enter Ganesha did t allow him to pass. Furious at this, Lord Shiva severed child’s head. When goddess Parvati got to kw about this, she was heartbroken.

Lord Shiva promised her that he would bring back Ganesha to life. Lord Shiva n instructed his followers kwn as Ganas to search for head of first living creature so that he could replace it on Ganesha’s body. Ganas could only find a baby elephant’s head. This is how Lord Ganesha as we kw him took birth. Lord Shiva named him leader of Ganas, Ganapati.

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Ganesh Chaturthi celebration

festival of Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated with great joy all over India and also in various parts of world. People celebrate festival by bringing clay idols of Lord Ganesha home and also in public on elaborate pandals. festival begins on Ganesh Chaturthi with Pranapratishhtha which includes chanting of Mantras to mark arrival of Lord Ganesha.

During festival which is majorly observed as 10 days, long festivities consist of prayers and offerings which are kwn to be loved by Lord Ganesha. Some of offerings include model, shrikhand, payasam, coconut rice, motichoor laddoo and or sweets.

murti is usually worshipped in morning and evening with traditional offerings of flowers, durva and or sweets. worshipping ends for day with Aarti for Lord Ganesha and or Hindu gods. On 11th day after Ganesh Chaturthi, i.e. on Anant Chaturdashi. clay idol is immersed in water which marks ending of festival. After immersion Lord Ganesh is believed to go back to Mount Kailash to Goddess Parvati and Lord Shiva.

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Ganesh Chaturthi significance

festival holds great significance in Hindu mythology and also in India’s freedom struggle. Indian freedom fighter Lokmanya Tilak made a public appeal in late 19th century to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi publicly. This was done as a mean of a garing of Indians in British occupied India.

Currently, festival is celebrated all over India especially in Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh and people visit ir friends and family’s house to pay ir respects and pray to Lord Ganesha. celebration and festivities of Ganesh Chaturthi 2020 might be different this year due to pandemic situation in India and all over world.

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