Ganesha chaturthi is celebrated as a grand festival in our family. We worship clay idols of Ganesha and Gowri at our house. They are usually bought at nearby place where artisans sell out hand-made idols. It happened that day-before-yesterday, Dad had asked a lady who was selling the Ganesha idol of the cost of the clay-model without all the paint. She quoted a whooping Rs.250/- for a small Idol! Dad was surprised at the cost and he gave her a Rs.1000/- note and asked her to take money of what she thought according to "Dharma" was correct price and then return the change. After listening to the word "Dharma" I don't know what made her think but she started giving back change and she just took Rs.130 bucks for that same Idol. It seemed just a small incident but the power-play of those words and the fear of god in the lady seemed so obvious at that moment.
For everyone God is a divine spiritual power. We all see him in different walks of our daily life. We associate everything happening to our lives which we don't have control upon as god's act of testing our strength and will. Sometimes we are guilty and we know it. We fear of that something wrong we committed and feel that some punishment awaits us! So strange are our customs and rituals but it is the way humans have created god from eons ago which has helped to maintain a good harmony in the society we live in.
1 comment:
this is a classic example of how the human conscience works. Words do play games with our mind.
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