Hello Friends!
Ganapati Bappa! Morya! गणपती बाप्पा! मोरया!
As the celebrations of Ganesh Chaturthi are in full swing and
The cheerful atmosphere is being sweetened by the prasadam
of Modak,
The thought of visiting my beloved Bappa smiled in my mind
and we took immediate action!
The joy, surprises? Or just for fun.
Whatever you call it, traveling
can be as great as the rising sun!
Began our journey to the city of dreams,
Mumbai!
From cracking jokes, munching on food to a coincidental sound
of the band Baja,
We were greeted by the navsachi line at Lalbagcha Raja!
around noon we joined
the queue heading towards the Lalbagcha Raja.
At first, the excitement was all high!
Soon, my nice misunderstanding of; it’ll be just 1 or 2 hours
and we’ll be there!
Disappeared in the trickles of sweat and roar of hunger.
Then, motivation came from the cheery voices of people
saying Ganapati Bappa Morya!
But you know what? After a few more hours, the legs shift to
auto-walking, mode..
Ignoring the mentally ticking stopwatch, trying my best to
keep the sleepy body awake,
Finally we saw it, the idol of the Lalbagcha Raja and
For the first time in so many hours of turning at
intersections of the line, trudging along,
the excitement, the energy returned in full force to shout,
Ganapati Bappa! Morya!!
I just got a minute or so in front of Bappa.
But the experience was so, so divinely amazing….
In that moment you forget your tensions, your exhaustion or,
I might even say, that you forget even yourself.
This feeling itself, isn’t this the real god?
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