No place like your own home, they say. Absolutely true! I tried my level best to upload the blog at the usual time, but there was a repeat blockade here at my brother's place. Better now, than never!
Bidding adieu then to your own abode is tough, right? In fact, 'adieu' was to be the theme of my blog. As per the tradition, in my family, the Ganesh visarjan/immersion takes place with the Gauri visarjan. The logic is that after a three days stay at her maternal home, Gauri leaves for her place. With her, we bid adieu to Ganapati, her son.
Well, festivals come and festivals go, like the typical diurnal circle. Yet bidding adieu to Ganesha has always been tough. The empty devhara without the murti/idol literally hurts one's eyes. One never gets this vacant feel after any other festival.
Let us explore this feel a little. In French, 'Adieu' literally is 'A Dieu', I leave you to God. Sure, of the pantheon of gods, Ganesha is the sole/soul principle. Metaphorically, he is Life incarnate. May be, hence bidding adieu to this Dieu/God is emotionally taxing. Most all feel the pinch of this 'adieu'.
Yet never is it an adieu. It is always a 'punaragamanay', 'pun: agaman', the forever return of all that is the best within the self, the real Ganesha, the lifelong living God within us, so to say. On this note, let me for the time being bid an adieu!
Pratima@ Farewell is actually a fare-thee-well, may be, the year long message of Ganesha, the god principle, the 'all that is the best', within each one of us.
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