Ganapathi Bappa's Adalat!!

The tower of Vigneshwar temple Ozhar(Maharshtra).One of the Ashta Vinayak temples.

Well Ganesh Chathurthi has always been a very important festival.Living in Pune sure meant a great deal more importance attached to the ten  day celebration and festivities in the city.Visiting all the different Ganesh mandals and enjoying the theme and the decoration was indeed an intersting part of the ten day festival.Over a period of time I sure did lose touch with all the festivities.After a long time actually I have been watching a TV coverage of the Ganesh chathurthi festivities not only in Maharashtra but all over the country.
There were some truly interesting and fascinating Ganesh temples that caught my attention.
One was the Bade Ganapthi temple of Indore where Lord Ganesh listens to everyone's problems on Mobile.......you can get more about this here.
After Ganapathi bappa on mobile at the Bade Ganapathi Temple Indore,now it is Ganesh ji ki Adalat I hear.I'm indeed impressed at the innovative methods of worship and of course must admit my blissful ignorance on all these temples,and also these methods of worship.I only knew the traditional way wherein when we visit any temple we say a prayer and do pranams to the Lord.In fact I wish to mention here that whenever I went to Tirupati or Shirdi I used to plan to ask so many things ,but invariably forgot everything when I had darshan of the Lord. that ofcourse is another story though......
Coming back to this  Ganesh Mandir in Jabalpur,here all the problems one goes with are noted down in a register (by the temple priest)and an offering of a coconut has to be made to Ganpathi Bappa.The interesting and most fascinating thing here is that the temple priest brings the register in front of Lord Ganesha and reads out the problem to the Lord and then strikes a hammer like in court.That is why the word Adalat maybe.I'm indeed fascinated by all this.Once their wishes are fulfilled people come back to the temple and thank our very dear Ganpathi Bappa  for the same.
I also have the privilege of getting Ashta Vinayak Darshan sitting in the comfort of my home in UAE.Thanks to the TV channels for this noble service.
Ganpathi Bappa Moraya!!!!
Jai Gurudev.