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for readers new to Hinduism: Shown
on the right the family picture of Lord Shiva From left to
right: Ganapathi (Shiva and Parvathi's elder son who has a
elephant face and big tummy), Shiva (who is adorned by moon,
snake and ganges river from his head), Parvathi (Shiva's wife
also known as Uma, Durga), Karthikeyan (Shiva and Parvathi's
younger son also known as Murugan, Shanmugam). This story
is about Ganapathi,( Shiva and Parvathi's elder son ) and
the moon which is adorning Shiva's hair.
Once
Ganpathi (son of Lord Shiva) wanted to do namaskarams (get
blessings from) to his parents. So, he went to Kailash (his
parent's home). He tried to do namaskaram in fornt of his
parents. But due to his huge tummy , when his head touched
the floor , body lifted up and when his body touched the floor
the head lifted up. It was really funny.
Moon residing in Shiv's head, started
laughing uncontrollably. Parvathi being a mother got very
angry with moon and cursed the moon on that day. She declared
that let the whole world plunge into darkness without a moon
and whoever sees the moon on that night will get punished
for the things for which they are not responsible.
Moon realized her mistake and got
worried. So it pleaded to Shiva and Parvathi that all living
beings in the whole earth enjoy the beauty of moon. So Shiva
requested Parvathi to find out a way to overcome the curse.
After deep thought Parvathi said that she cannot remove the
curse from the world plunging into darkness however she can
limit that to once in a year. Also she cannot remove the curse
on any one seeing the moon on the eventful day but can grant
good things to occur for any one who will celebrate and worship
Ganapathi on his birthday (Ganesh Chaturthi)!
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