Vinayagar Chaturthi

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you......
Hi there I'm Shakthi Sathyanarayana and by my opening itself I am sure that you know what Vinayagar Chatuthi is all about. Yes, It's the birthday of Lord Vinayaga. Many may say that there are other reasons????
Well, before I start telling you about his birthday, let me give you a little intro about Lord Vinayaga...

The first prayer of a hindu is always to Vinayagar ( The elephant headed god ).
Vinayagar is invoked at the beginning of all ritualistic worships. New house, work, marriage and so on.
That is why it sais that Vinayagar is the paramporul ( The Supreme )
There are many temples for lord vinayaga throughout the world. Everything starts with a
pillayar sulli which means they are handing all their burdens to the lord of obstacles. He prevents
people from doing evil or sin.

Other names of Vinayagar.
He has many names. A few that you can know are as below.

• Vinayagar                         ( The leader )
• Ganapathi                         ( Lord of siva's attendance, the bootha gaanas )
• Vigneswaran                     ( Remover of obstacles or vignam )
• Gajamugha                       ( Elephant face )
• Narthana Ganapathi          ( Dancing Ganapathi )
• Panja Mugha Ganapathi    ( 5 faced ganapathi )

 Vinayagar + Chaturthi means Birth of Vinayagar

 Sivagami ( Parvathi ) the wife of lord siva was taking her bath but her attendance were not there.
So, she created a boy from sandal paste that she was using to bath. Then she gave him sakthi
which means life and told him not to allow anyone into the home. Then at that time, Lord siva was
returning home as he noticed a boy standing infront of his house.

The boy did not allow Lord Siva to enter and this made Lord Siva to be angry and he cut off his head.
Then, Parvati Devi heard about this and was angry and upset. At once, Lord Siva ordered his bootha
gaanas to bring back the first living creature's head found in the east. The gaanas found an elephant. So, they chopped the head and brought it back. Lord Siva gave him back his life and the little boy with the elephant head was alive again.

That is when Parvati Devi asked Pillai Yaar ?? Which means Who is that boy?
And ever since then he was pillayar, ganesha, ganapathi and so on.
That's the history of Vinayagar Chaturthi.

I hope you got some info about Vinayagar Chaturthi. I would like to thank Sooriaraja Chinniah for asking on the above mentioned topic . I hope your doubts are clear.
Thank you.

With lots of Love,

                                                                                     Shakthi Sathyanarayana