.....A Small experiment and some thoughts it threw up.....
We bid goodbye to the Lord at our home today. For those who are new to this blog, here is some background information....
We had placed 3 Ganesha idols in our Puja this year. The first and main one was made by me, and I tried to make it a little colourful by painting some Geru or Chemman, which is basically red brick powder.The second and third were made by Samhith.
Today, when it for time for the Lord to leave, we were faced with a dilemma - which ones should we immerse, and which should we keep? Finally, after much discussion, we came to an agreement. For more than 40 years, our Ganesha idol has been sent for immersion with the big Ganesha of the neighboring colony, (remember the Facebook Ganesha?) and I wasn't in the mood to change the tradition just because I had made the idol. Hence our main idol continued the tradition, joining his friends on his journey home.