Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Image worship

If we can do this; we should be prepared to accept criticism from people belonging to the other parts of the world.
If late Bal Gangadhar Tilak had known this future he would never have started public celeberation of Ganesh Puja.
I think this is really horrid- please pass the word around to keep the idols environment friendly and SMALL in size, Ganeshji is such a wonderful and cute God, it is not important that he should be made into huge statues and desecrated like this....... he is equally appealing and gracious and kind above all, in a small statue as well.

IDLE worship ?

or

IDEAL worship ?
After immersion .. ?

The Day after ..

Would you like your Gods bulldozed like garbage ?Would you like your Gods bulldozed like garbage ?

and treated like this ... ?

or dumped like this ?

left to rot for scavengers to feast .... ?

Lying at your feet ...Helpless .. Abandoned by worshippers !

Maimed ?
Desecrated ?
And you create a hue and cry when some statue in your city gets 'desecrated' ?
You burn down buses and call for bandhs ?
Ab Kya hua ?

Was that statue a GOD,
OR
Is this GOD only a Statue ?
You decide.

Wake Up !
This is our GOD !
It would be great if you can avoid real desecration !
GANAPATIBAPPA MORAYA..!

Please Take precaution and do not let it happen, this is for you, me and for environment in which we live......


Could this be one of the reasons why a few communities decry image worship.
We are proud that our religion allows it and we give various reasons why we should continue to do this.
However, if this is the way we treat the images after the Pujas, I feel something is wrong.
Why should the community Pujas compete each other in sizes.
Why shouldn't the money be spent for usefully.
At my own home, I do not use flowers in my Puja because the next day, disposing the used flowers become headache.
I suggest that the Puja organisers should voluntarily reduce the size of their images before the government steps in to control them in the interest of pollution
The above has been sent by Rakesh and Prakash Bhartia

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