Places impact you for a variety of reasons. And the same place impacts different people in different ways. This is especially true when it comes to spiritual experiences, where every single person’s experience is unique. And personally, every spiritual experience is unique, the same person can have different deeply spiritual experiences at different places, at different times. This thought has emerged because of my own experiences over the years, but especially so this year, with different and unique experiences at various places I have visited recently. I began this year with a visit to Baroda (Vadodara) with friends. It was meant to be a relaxed trip, a touristy trip, with our sons. We enjoyed ourselves to the hilt, but the highlight of that trip was a visit to the Lakulisha temple at Pavagadh. It was the iconography of the temple that I connected with, and I spent a few hours simply lost in the details of the figures carved around the temple. There was an indefinable connect with
Now that our own Ganesha has left, we have time to go and see a few more Ganeshas around us.... Here are a couple of interesting ones we came across....
This one was Krishna-style, with a flute and Gopis in attendance.....
This one scored for its unusual design and the decorations....
We were welcomed by turkeys and ducks....
Here is how it looked .... those gazebo like structures are where the birds and tortoises were placed... the fountains were a great touch!
This one was Krishna-style, with a flute and Gopis in attendance.....
This one was simple, sort of like the Dagdu Sheth Ganpati in Pune...
but we liked its trunk and have decided to try and make one like this next year!!This one scored for its unusual design and the decorations....
I clicked quite a lot of pics of this Ganpati....under the different effects of the lighting...
The Chinese theme drew quite a crowd here....the kids loved those cut outs....
while I loved the lanterns...
We were welcomed by turkeys and ducks....
and the last exhibits were a couple of tortoises.. these were the only eyesores in the entire display for the poor things had too little space to move in, and even Samhith felt that they should have at least given them a pond or something so that they would have been happier!
Here is how it looked .... those gazebo like structures are where the birds and tortoises were placed... the fountains were a great touch!
they look so lovely, mumbai comes alive during these 11 days...
ReplyDeleteOh Yes, Santosh! Mumbai does come alive... just wish i had more time to go and see more ganeshas!
ReplyDeleteNice series of photos.. Ganesh festival is catching up in other places too.. Chennai also had its share this time..
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed viewing these photos..!
Thanks Sridharan! yes, these days festivals are spreading all over the world! I even got a link to ganeshotsav in a temple in France!
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