Yesterday was a day for Ganapati Visarjan. Little Sanket was very upset. He was not ready to say "Good Bye" to lovely Ganeshji. He was truly devotional minded child and was get highly attached to Ganapati in these special ten days of Ganesh-pooja (From Ganesh Chaturthi to Anant Chaturdashi).
All gathered relatives and other people were eager to proceed with the ceremony of visarjan but they were helpless in front of the sentimental stubbornness of this small child.
Finally his grand ma took the whole matter in her hand. She sat with him, and calmed him down. She knew the depth of devotion in heart of this child. He was not going to be convinced merely by any temptation of chocolates or video games! So she made him understand the act of visarjan as a part of worship with true philosophical understanding.
She told him, "Look, God is omnipresent. He neither arrives nor leaves. He has existed before time and will exist beyond. This ceremony is symbolic to understand our life. We arrive, we celebrate and we merge into the elements."
She continued, "The act of Visarjan teaches us to let go of something you love deeply. To surrender to faith over intellect. It also teaches us what we love may leave us, so love unconditionally... !!!"
It is good that you feel happy in serving God, but the true essence of devotion and service lies in not your happiness, but it lies in the happiness of God. You need to understand this if you really want to serve God.
It teaches us to remember God throughout the year and wait to welcome Him again according to His time and wish...!
It teaches that the omni-present God, when time comes, again appears in front of us and gives the chance to serve Him.
That is why we say "O Ganesh! Do come back sooner the next year!" Till then we do not stop worshiping Him but we prepare ourselves to welcome Him again with more devotion, with more faith and with more desire to serve Him."
This is what Sanket was needed to understand. With tears in eyes but great faith in heart, he joined to the procession of Ganapati Visarjan, repeating the prayer, "Ganapati Bappa Morya, pudhchya-varshi-lavkar-ya (agale baras tu jaldi aa)!!"
