Ganesh Chaturthi Information 2025 Puja Muhurat, Puja Vidhi and Puja Products

Ganesh Chaturthi is one of the grandest festivals of the Hindus in India. It is celebrated all over India. Maharashtra organizes Ganesh Chaturthi every year with a lot of pomp and grandeur. This is the biggest festival in Mumbai. The residents of this cosmopolitan city celebrate this festival irrespective of their caste, creed and religion. It is celebrated to mark the arrival of Lord Ganesha with his Mother Parvati annually. The celebrations last for six days starting from Chaturthi. Devotees hail Lord Ganesha before they start with anything fresh because he is known as the lord of ‘new beginnings’ and ‘aspirations’.

History behind the celebration of the festival:

It is very difficult to trace back to the inception of Ganesh Puja in Maharashtra but

History suggests that the so celebrations started publicly from the age of Shivaji who had set up the Maratha empire.

The Peshwas started celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi publicly in the 18th century because they were great devotees of Lord Ganesha. They celebrated this in the month of Bhadrapada.

Eventually the ritual of Ganesh Chaturthi started to fade away until Lokmanya Tilak came along in the British Period and revived the festival to connect to the masses of India. He tried to use the Hindu festivals as agendas for political rallies.

How to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi?

In Maharashtra, Ganesh Chaturthi is also known as Ganeshotsav. Devotees bring home clay miniatures of Lord Ganesha and worship them for the next few days.

The murti is worshipped twice a day with flowers, durva, Karanji & modaks as offerings. The puja ends with a mangalarati of the lord. People sing a song called ‘sukhkarta dukhharta’ in praise of the Lord Ganesha and ask for his blessings. Duration  of these Domestic celebrations vary from person to people ranging from 1.5 to 11 days. This is followed by the immersion or visarjan of the Lord in any waterbody that he can go back to his abode in Kailash.

Other festivals are also celebrated by some simultaneously during these days like the Hartalika festival or the Gauri Pujan. The first is celebrated by the women by observing a fast and in the second one, devotees bring home the murti of Gauri Maata and worship her. Community pujas are celebrated in Pandals or temporary shelters for the Lord by different societies or youth organizations. Huge images are brought in these places and decorated beautifully. These are kept on display until the visarjan day for the mass to come and have a look. Cultural programmes are held and in many places these puja committees also give out free medical services.

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Ganesh Chaturthi Puja Ingredients list:

• Idol or photo of Lord Ganesha
• Low wooden platform to place the idol
• Fresh yellow or red cloth to cover the platform
• Flowers like red hibiscus, mogra, marigold champa etc
• Durva or a specific type of grass used to pray for good health to the Lord
• 11 modaks & Laddoos or even more because Ganesha loves them
• Kheer Or barfi with some Bhog
• Panchamrit(made of ghee, honey, milk, curd & sugar)
• Yellow cloth
• Janeyu or sacred thread
• Akshat
• KumKum
• Turmeric
• Chandan
• Camphor
• Incense sticks
• Lamps
• Oil or ghee
• Cotton wicks
• Pach patra or jalpatra
• Tamboolam( 2 or 5 pan, supari, dakshina, whole coconut)
• Puja bell

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