with Sri Ganesh

- 24-01-14:

... Rs. 10/- are offered. P offers flowers on his way back from town.

Sri Ganesh, The Magics of Manifestation Glimmer and shimmer and sing All about you, A splendid and joyful Fruition, Like the glowing embers

Of the Inner Hearth, A constant celebration

Of the divinity Of creation –

Sri Ganesh, Rich and Still

Thus you dance For the Mother...

- 25-01-14:

... Some of my predicaments are like comic strips...! As there were less flowers today I thought I would end the Aarti earlier and be saved from the ear-splitting shaking of the bells H is so keen on producing; but as I was singing the last slokas he must have heard me from the pathway and rushed in to do his pranam so he could faithfully do his part with all his might...! I am sure he genuinely believes that it is a collaborative attendance and has no idea how taxing it is...

Aum Gan Ganapataaya Namah

- 26-01-14: Republic Day

- 27-01-14:

... I found the gate area entirely littered; probably a busload of people decided this was the ideal spot to have picnic and cook their meals, dropping vegetable peals and paper plates all over... It is a vision of insanity. A couple of laborers are there eating their breakfast, utterly

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