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10 Sep, 9 tweets, 2 min read

THREAD: #GaneshChaturthi

Why do we immerse Lord Ganesha idol into water after worshipping it?

- In India, for thousands of years Hindus have made idols and then immersed them in water. Many foreigners feel it is a strange thing to do.

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Why is the God Ganesha decorated ceremoniously and worshipped lovingly for several days and then immersed in the sea, river, or lake? There is a beautiful concept behind this immersion.

The real secret of worship is in making an idol and then letting it disappear; giving a shape and form to the idol, and then letting it vanish onto the formless. It is all symbolic, the act of making an idol of Lord Ganesha, worshipping it, and then immersing it in water.

Worship itself is an immersion; you begin your journey from the idol and proceed through the ritual of worship: and you go ahead, the idol is left behind, and only the state of worship remains.

If you stop at the idol you do not know what worship is; if you move into the experience of worship, you will know the root of worship and the real purpose of the idol.

First the devotee makes the idol and then he makes it disappears. In an earthly sense he makes the idol, and in spiritual sense, he dissolves it.

He makes it from mud, worships it in the deepest sense to absorb it into himself, and then lets it dissolve into the ultimate existence by letting it vanish into the formless. In India, that is the deeper meaning behind immersion of idol after worshipping them.

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