As I have claimed before, as of now, I am an atheist and I have my reasons to be so. I am a rebel but I am not arrogant. So when a friend insisted I make Ganpati this year I happily obliged. To tell you frankly I had a reason, an important reason to make Ganpati. To create. There is no other happiness like creation and I know it very well. So I started with faith in my friend and to experience creation.
It was indeed a beautiful process, the more I started getting involved the more I started loving it. And with all my heart I created ganpati giving attention to as minute detail as I can. It was a fun process and its the same process which made me more and more attached to it each day. And by the time it was ready I had this strong feeling "its mine". And with it came the sulking feeling that I will have to let it go... Even people around me started asking why I would want to do visarjan(immersion) of something I took so much effort on. But thankfully I didn't get tempted to change my mind.
But I won't deny that I was sad inside. I also proposed to my MIL if we should extend the duration of our Ganpati stay but thankfully she disagreed. Yes, I used word "thankfully" because I had to learn to control the temptation and to 'let go'. Ganpati taught me happiness comes for reason, happiness comes for season and like everything else it should go. It's only when you let go of a happiness will other find its way in your life. It taught me, that when happiness comes it ought to be celebrated with all love, energy and vigor. It taught me that you can only create but not own anything for that matter....like everything else it must take its own destiny and should go....
Letting go is such an important lesson to learn for it creates space for new, for it keeps your ego in check, for it allows you to move and progress in life. My ganpati taught me this...
It's beautiful that if you have willingness and open mind how everything has a lesson hidden in it....
As I always believe life is here to teach you and make you better person everyday only if you
Live to learn and
Learn to live!
