Ganapati and I :-)

Today is Ganesh Chaturthi. So what better time to write about the relationship I share with Ganesh ji, my most favourite God...

Ever since I can remember, He has always been my favourite God. I used to tell my mom (and still do) that he is just sooo cuddly and cute and wonderful and kind and protective, he's got a great sense of humour, is witty and intelligent, in short, he is an embodiment of what I have always believed God to be like... So maybe that's why I always liked him a loott!

Besides, we have a lot in common. For example, both of us love eating (hehe) , are plump and cuddly and i guess the only difference is that he's good in Maths while i am really bad at it... So, this has been an old association. But I have had a few experiences concerning him and am recounting two of them here:

First one!

Okay I guess everyone remembers that "Ganesh-drinking-milk-miracle", right? I have no desire to discuss whether it was really a miracle or not (though, really, if u try it NOW, the idol will NOT drink milk, but anyway, that's beside the point). The point is that while the idol at our home shrine was "drinking" milk from everyone's spoon, my half-filled spoon (half-filled coz my mom did not want 9 yr old me to dirty the home shrine), was getting filled with milk when placed near the idol . So i tried with an empty spoon and that got filled too! My folks tried too but it didn't work with them...hehe...I don't know of anyone else who had the same experience...

Second One!

I am rather famous for having weird dreams and this was just one of them. i saw it when i was 14. For the first (and so far the only time) I saw Ganesh ji in my dream and it was a really looong dream. it was an idol of his that I had never seen before, and it was tilted in a weird way, and was kind of hopping about and speaking to me. This was all I saw on a pinkish background. Ganapati, tilted, hopping and speaking to me for a looong looong time. But oddly, I can recall only one word of all that he said in that dream: "Maya". And that is probably because that was the name of our cook...hehe...so I kept wondering what he wanted to tell me about her..

Having the dream is fine. I just dismissed it as another weird dream...remembering it only when one of my friends at school happened to mention that it was Ganesh Chaturthi. (We don't celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi and I don have any friends who do. There was really no way I could have known about it earlier). So I went home and asked my mom, she consulted her calendar and said it was Ganesh Chaturthi...

So since then I keep a track of when Ganesh Chaturthi is...and I still dont know what he meant by "Maya"....

That's all from me for now...Happy Ganesh Chaturthi everyone!!