Public Celebrations of the Festival Of Lord Ganesha: Janahitwadi

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Public Celebrations of Ganesh Festival Then and Now

Landlords and rich persons consider that the best king is one who safeguards their interest in return for a small sum of money. General public also had similar view. This belief had been there for most of the time. None was bothered whether the king is white, black, brown or yellow. Indians never felt it wrong if the king is not Indian. Hardly any Indian thought of self rule. Chhatrapati Shivaji was the first one who changed thinking of people. He emphasised need for independence from foreign rule and convinced people advantages of the same. He also made people understand that they have capacity to get independence from foreigners. He never fought against a community or religion but only against foreigners. This thought did surfaced during 1857 independence war against British Rule. However, it had been in pockets and at different instances of time. Subject of Independence broadly remained among educated till Okay Bal Gangadhar Tilak carried it to common man in the country.

Lokmanya found Lord Ganesha is the only God worshiped by all those who believed in 33 Crore Gods. Any one who worshiped his/her God did worship Lord Ganesha prior to worshiping his/her idol. This is the reason Lokmanya chose Ganesh festival to make it a public celebration. He used this festival to educate people and unite them against the foreign rule. During his time exhibition, drama, songs etc. were the tools available to him and people and he used them effectively. However we have lost the principle and we are running after traditional celebrations. We are wasting resources and increasing pollution. I believe Lokmanya must have unbearable pain due to our present actions.

I do believe in changes related to time and advancements in technology. Some we discard and some we would adopt. However, we should not neglect the principle behind the celebrations. Educating a common man is the basic principle and we must stand by it. We must remember this festival is a tool and not the aim. We must believe this festival is not religious celebration but an effective education resource.

Initially the celebrations had Independence for people as a goal. Now requirement is to make society free of any threat, outside or inside. People must know their rights and responsibilities both. Improving life style of people is the most important goal for us. We have many new resources available e.g. Radio, TV, News paper, Cinema, Drama, Songs, Computers, Internet and many more. We need to use these resources to improve person to person relations and not creating hatred, education people and not making them slaves of belief, reduce pollution and not increase or add new variety of pollution.

Simple power point shows to 3 D dimension audio-visual CDs can easily be prepared. Using such CDs Ganesh celebration groups can educate people to live as a nation along with religious worship. Right from a village to world can be explained and embedded in people to understand true life as a society. In true spirit of these celebrations we need to educate people with whatever assets we have to make every citizen aware of opportunities and shortfalls and make a cohesive society irrespective of religion, cast, and location.

All groups should think over this and plan their celebrations for next year. Whatever leftover funds may be used to prepare material for education of people through entertainment.

    

   ×ÞÖ          .     ,  ,     .                  .    .              ,     ,        . ,                  . 1857        .            . ,      .       .       .       . ÝÖÞÖê¿ÖÖ»ÖÖ ÃÖ¾ÖÔ ØÆü¤æü †ÝÖÏ ¯Öæ•Öê“ÖÖ ´ÖÖ®Ö ¤êŸÖÖŸÖ. ÝÖÞÖê¿Ö Æêü ¤î¾ÖŸÖ ¯ÖÏŸµÖêÛú ØÆü¤æü ¯Öã•ÖŸÖÖê   »ÖÖêêÛú´ÖÖ®µÖÖ®Öß         . ÆüÖ ˆŸÃÖ¾Ö ¬ÖÖÙ´ÖÛú ®Ö šêü¾ÖŸÖÖ ÃÖÖ´ÖÖ×•ÖÛú ²Ö®Ö¾Ö»ÖÖ.

                 .      . , , , , ,       .        .          .       .                .    , -         .  œü¶Ö ,    .

•Ö×®ÖÛú     •Ö×®ÖÛú   £Ö®Ö     . ³ÖÖ¸üŸÖÖŸÖß»Ö •Öê »ÖÖêÛú 33 ÛúÖê™üß ¤ê¾Ö ´ÖÖ®ÖŸÖÖŸÖ ŸµÖÖ ¤ê¾ÖÖ ´Ö¬µê ±ŒŸÖ ÝÖÞÖê¿Ö ÆüÖ“Ö ¤ê¾Ö †ÃÖÖ †ÖÆêü Ûúß •µÖÖ“Öß ÃÖ¾ÖÔ“Ö ¯Öæ•ÖÖ Ûú¸üŸÖÖŸÖ.       ,     .       ,     .    •×®ÖÛú     . ´ÖÖ®µÖ   . »ÖÖêÛú´ÖÖ®µÖÖ®Öß ÝÖÞÖê¿Ö Æêü ÃÖ¾ÖÔ ´ÖÖ®µÖ ¯ÖÏ×ŸÖÛú ÃÖ´Ö•Öæ®Ö Ö»ÖÖ ÃÖÖ¾ÖÔ•Ö×®ÖÛú º¯Ö ×¤ü»Öê. µÖÖ      .  ,  ,  ,      .      ,        .           .

   .   ®Ö¾Öß®Ö   .         .       ,       ,    .      .    . ,    .          .

    ?   .     .            .     .         .      .       . , , , ,     .      .

                .                     ,         ,        º®®Ö  ,          .    .

  •Ö×®Ö          .            ,          .

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