Entry of Maheshwara putra - GANESHA!

"You brought a thaat?", the man at the idol shop wearing white dhoti and a gandhi cap asked. "No! we'll carry", dad replied. An assistant took the bill and went searching for the idol we'd ordered. Meanwhile I stood gaping at the variety of ganesha idols. Each one was of a different size, different colour and different style. But the majestic wise look on lord's face was the one thing which did not vary. I wondered which one mom had ordered. Meanwhile the assistant came back carrying a brush and a creamish golden murti of Lord ganesha clad in a pink dhoti. My eyes lightened up. Immediately I began chanting the holy mantram Om gan ganpataye namah...
My hands shook as I took my ganpati in my hands. A rush of emotions - pride, exhilaration, and love for I was carrying my own ganesha finally!!
On coming home, I called out to mom, " Look who has come home amma!!" Mom came running from the kitchen beaming, carrying a aarti thali. "Dont come in yet!", she said.
After the aarti, I entered the poojai area and placed my ganesha on the stand. I took a fine look at him. "Beautiful!", I muttered. His appearance itself made me feel blessed.
Then, the actual activity began - applying chandanam kumkumam, arranging flowers, preparing kozhakattais, and prasadam etc. Amongst all the activity, a score of ganesha suprabatham was being played in the background. Everything just seemed perfect. The melancholy was replaced by divinity!
Slokams n bhajans followed by archanai n neiveidyam were done to please the lord. It was an utmost pleasure!
What I experienced from this day is that that having Lord Ganesha at home is pure bliss! I had always wished for having a ganapati at home since I was a child. Finally, when the wish has come true, I feel entirely satisfied to the core. GANPATI BAPPA MORIYA!

Dragonflies, woods and magic

Monsoon has startd waving a goodbye already and that makes me feel really glad given to the unavoidable fact that my moods are mainly governed by the weather outside my balcony.. rather balconies I should say..
Holding a cup of bournvita I walked slowly into the open balcony of my house relieved to find that the floor was dry and rain hadn't played its dirty "slippery- muddy- algae" game.. But ironically the aloevera plant looked so unusually green and healthy and I felt that it was wrong on my part to blame monsoon up to this extent. Anyway, I ignored my guilty conscience for a while and leaned on the wall, watching the sunshine highlightling every bit of the lush green grass that had grown wildly over the sides of the road..Dragonflies were racing about my head with their golden wings rapidly flapping... I felt like smiling..felt like nature was conveying an important message....After every rain, someday, beautiful sunshine flows in enlightening the spirit of nature..
I wanted to stay, wishing  that I was a part of this nature's movie, wishing someone would play a soothing background score... and I could dance to the rythm..

Wearing my shoes, I ran down the stairs, towards the park,, There wasn't a single soul on the road. Taking advantage of this situation, I started humming and hopping about, talking to baby squirrels collecting nuts on the road... Though grass had grown wildly everywhere, it had created a unique path.. one could almost expect snow white to arrive with her seven dwarfs, gently lifting her skirt gracefully.. I plunged into every imagination that my heart ridiculously created.... knowing that I was the snow white at that moment.. .