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Trip to Siddhivinayak Temple

Today morning I had a chance to offer my prayers at the celebrity temple of shri siddivinayak temple at prabhadevi, Mumbai. Though I managed to leave my residence just as the day dawned, but I was surprised to encounter the Mumbai-traffic at this hour near Dadar Bridge. The taxi charged fairly via meter and dropped me right outside the temple.
As I was stepping in there were multiple shops for Prasad right outside the temple premises. One of the boys hushed me to take Prasad from his shop. There were multiple plastic baskets each containing a coconut, a small red decorative chunari, a garland, few loose flowers and hardly few pieces of sweet. My atheist and practical mind immediately rebelled for paying a substantial amount for the above arrangement. Moreover entering empty handed never seemed proper option even in the eyes of fellow devotees or even God. Hence I ran my calculations and bought half kilos of motichoor-ladoos (the favorite sweet of Lord Ganeesha and my son too) in price costing less than that plastic basket. Then I compulsively bought some flowers. Happy with my shopping I proceeded inside the temple.
The temple has been done in white marble stone with beautiful golden carvings on the roof and side walls. Inside the shrine there is a beautiful idol of Lord Ganeesha in gold-color metal. Luckily there wasn’t a long queue for the ‘darshan’. Many people were sitting on the stairs in front of the shrine. A middle aged man was fiddling with his phone, looking at the God in middle. Few people were sitting in meditative posture contemplating within. A young couple was busy chatting, probably on the safest place in neighborhood. A young man was diligently doing his job standing on a bench in front of shrine and asking people to move on. I also sat on the stairs sometime trying to imbibe the ambience.

Finally when I got ready to leave I saw an interesting sight on one side. There were two metal statues of rat of moderate sizes kept on stands. I saw people whispering something in the ears of those rats. I couldn’t resist my smile as I understood that people were asking their wishes to be fulfilled via those rats. It made an amusing sight .i even confirmed my thesis from a lady who started smiling as she explained the concept to me. Finally I clicked some photos for my blog and happily returned home with some interesting moments with Lord Ganeesha.


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  1. शक्ति कुमारMay 23, 2015 at 11:26 PM

    You do not have an atheist mind...at the most you might be agnostic during some passing moments; otherwise, you have a deep faith in life, which is the actual implication of being a theist.

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