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Ganesha head symbolizes atman or the soul, this represents the reality of human existence but also his body represents the earthly existence.

The tale behind the elephant head

“Ganesha's birth relates to an incident in which Shiva killed Aditya, the son of a sage Kashyapa. Shiva restored life to the dead boy by replacing Aditya's head to Indra's elephant, but this could not pacify the outraged sage Kashyapa. Kashyap cursed Shiva and declared that Shiva's son would lose his head and undergo the same fate as his own son�.


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Ganesha: Lord of Good Fortune who provides prosperity, fortune and success. Ganesha is also worshipped in Jainism and Buddhism. Ganesha is popularly worshipped as a deity who removes obstacles.

In the Hindu religion, Ganesha is one the most important deities. To invoke the blessings of lord Ganesha, people recite with faith and devotion many slokas, stotras, and mantras.

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Mahabharata An ancient sanscript epic that is believed to be story of an ancient war


Ganesh Charturthi is the Hindu festival celebrating Ganesha. The festival is celebrated by worshipping clay models in all places, be it at home or at work or on the street

The holiday is celebrated with the goal of removing all obstacles, as Ganesha is the God of knowledge. The event occurs in the Hindu month of Bhadra (mid-August to midSeptember) The celebration lasts two weeks, a fortnight, with certain things happening on certain days. It started on September 5th this year. This whole holiday is a celebration of the God and his guidance.

Ironically, while this is seen as a purification ritual, it has done a great deal of pollution since not all idols are made of eco friendly materials

At the end of the ceremony, all of the clay models are submerged in water. This is done to symbolize many things, such as Ganesh's merging with the ocean of consciousness, to purify the idols, and the removal of obstacles by the idols dissolving in the water.


There are two stories of Hanuman's birth

Hanuman was born as the son of the King and Queen of the Monkeys.

Hanuman was born to Anjana, a female nymph.

Right after Hanuman was born he caught sight of the sun thinking it was a fruit and lept for it.


Hanuman has eight powers..... Anima the ability to shrink ones size

Mahima the ability to increase ones size

Lagima the ability to be weightless

Garima the ability to increase ones weight

Vastiva mastery over all creatures

Brapti the ability to travel anywhere and acquire anything


Parakamya an irresistible willpower

Istiva the ability to become godlike with the power to create and destroy


It is believed that in Treta Yuga, when Lord Rama was going back to Ayodhya after defeating Ravana, Hanuman Ji stopped at this place, which is now a temple, to rest and recover from the injuries. He helped Retrieve his wife from the demons.

I was apart of Ramas war against the demon king Ravanas

I am an important person in Ramas life

In that giant leap Hanuman embodied his love for Rama. His intense devotion allowed him to do the impossible, and this is the lesson of Hanuman: Power comes from devotion.


Where is he from. He is a God and an ardent devotee of the God of rama. He is one of the central figures in the Hindu epic Ramayana and its various versions. Hanuman participated in Rama war against the demon king ravana. Hanuman came to be regarded as an avatar of the god shiva by the 10th century.

Monkey god. As is the case for many of mothers Indians gods, several stories told explaining hanuman birth. Hanuman is the son of shiva and a young monkey to boot, hanuman is variously Your described as spirited, restless, energetic, words and inquisitive. He often abused his powers to here... pester the saints and holy men living in the nearby forest, with tricks such as beard pulling and the dousing of sacred fires.

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him being born from a lotus emerging from the navel of the god Vishnu


Unlike all the other Hindu Gods, he carries no weapon in his hands, rather he carries a water-pot, a spoon, a book of vedas, a rosary and a Lotus. The four hands represent the four aspects of human personality: mind (back right hand), intellect (back left hand), ego (front right hand), and the empirical self or conditioned consciousness (front left hand). The rosary symbolizes the time cycle through which the world moves from creation to sustenance A book in the back hand (symbolizing the intellect) illustrates that right knowledge is important for any kind of creative work. The color gold symbolizes activity and thus the golden The lotus symbolizes the Supreme Reality, the essence of all things and beings in the universe.


Brahma just took over the job of Prajapati, but he continued to use those methods to continue the creation of the world. However, he did his creations through his mental influences. He is also known as the Grandfather and as a later equivalent of Prajapati, the primeval first god. The gods feared that men could become so powerful that they might challenge their reign, therefore, they asked Brahma how best to prevent this. His response was to create wanton women who 'lusting for sensual pleasures, began to stir men up. Then the lord of gods, the lord, created anger as the assistant of desire, and all creatures, falling into the power of desire and anger, began to be attached to women


In one of the versions, Shiva appeared stated Brahma had lied and stated he will never be worshiped again because he is not a true god to punish him for “having wrongly sworn that he saw the tip of the infinite pillar-conflict between Brahma and Vishnu The stories of Brahma were developed from Prajapati in the Vedic period of ancient India, and he was the lord of creatures. In later Hinduism Brahmā is committed to the strand of Hinduism associated with pravṛtti ("active creation, worldly involvement") and indifferent, or even opposed, to nivṛtti("withdrawal from the world, renunciation").


In Hindu mythology, Brahma was the first god in the sacred Hindu trinity. He also was the creator of the universe.


the world-famous Brahma temple in Pushkar- in fact, it is the most famous one in the world. It’s the oldest, as well. All of this, and various legends have led to the relatively unknown nature of five other Brahma temples in the country, of which some are of much significance and beauty.


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