[nukkad] Fw: [nukkad] Ganesh Chaturthi.--- Answers to queries

["Mahesh chandra Gupta" <>]

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From: "Dr. M.C.Gupta" <healthlaw@now-india.net.in>
To: "Harshal Chhaya" <harshal@mumbai-central.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [nukkad] Ganesh Chaturthi.--- Answers to queries


> Q 5. "VISARJAN PROCESSION". Why do they drown the god?
>
> I don't know.
> Does anyone know the history/mythology behind the
> visarjan? The Durga idols are also immersed after Durga puja. Any
> information on this?
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> It would be too simplistic to ask: Why do they drown the gods. Gods are
> beyond death or drowning. Who can drown Varuna, the god of sea; or
goddesses
> Ganga, Yamuna, Saraswati, Narmada or Godawari? The idol of a god should
not
> be desecrated. What better way than to consign the idol of the god to the
> care of gods? In Hindu tradition, there is only one god, the all pervading
> one. The various gods and goddesses are the manifestations of the same one
> god. Consigning god's idol to river essentially conveys the concept: "
Tera
> tujhko arpan ".
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> > Q 7. Kill all the evil in the world? Would have to kill almost all 6
> billion
> > > residents..
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> > Such dark pessimissim does not become you, Arya.
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> Killing evil does not mean killing 6 billion people. Remember what Gandhi
> said: "Hate the sin, not the sinner"
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> MC Gupta
> Aug 23
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