Ganesh Visarjan 2014 - Anant Chaturdashi Celebration in India

Ganesh Visarjan is done on the day of Anant Chaturdasi, where the immersion of the Ganesh Idol is done all across the country. It is on the eleventh day from the first day of the putting up of the Ganesh idol. The beautiful statues or idols of Ganesha are immersed in the large body of water and then left to disintegrate, and this is called visarjan. In different cities, there are thousands of Ganesh idols immersed.

There is nothing such as a rule for the day on which the ganesh idol immersion can be done, but Anant Chaturdasi is the 11th day and usually most of the people do the Ganesh Visarjan particularly on that day. For the Ganesh Chaturthi 2014, there are a few dates which are particular for the visarjan procedure and you can select one of them for the immersion of the Ganesh statue that you have placed for the festival.

The schedule for this year Ganesh Visarjan 2014 is as follows:

• Ganesh Visarjan on one and half day: that is on August 30th, 2014
• Ganesh Visarjan on third day: that is on August 31st, 2014
• Ganesh Visarjan on fifty day: that is on September 2nd, 2014. On this day, in Maharashtra, Gauri idols are also worshiped along with Ganesh idols, and both the idols are immersed on this day.
• Ganesh Visarjan on seventh day: that is on September 4th, 2014.
• Anant Chaturdasi is the last day of Ganesh Visarjan, and this is on September 8th, 2014.
• For those in Mumbai, the immersion of the ganesh idol of Andhericha Raja would take place on Sankashti Chaturthi, which is on September 12th. The actual procession would start on September 11th, but it takes around 20 hours for the procession to be completed.


The two slogans which are chanted during the procession by everyone joining it are "Ganapati Bappa Morya" and "Ganesh Maharaj Ki, Jai". The concept of using murti (idol) for the Ganesh pooja is since a long time, and at the beginning of a pooja, the presiding deity is invoked in the idol for the purpose of worshiping the god. When the pooja ends, the diety is then requested to depart from the murti. The word "Visarjan" holds an importance for the reason that it is the rite in Hindu culture where the disciples worship and request the diety of God to depart. The murti is taken as a temporary body of the lord and then it is submerged into water to return it to nature. Visarjan is also done for the purpose of replenishing the spiritual energy in the body, and to also remind people that the material wealth is not permanent, and it holds no use to the soul of a person. It also gives a message that life is short and is confined to our own body, and one has to understand detachment. What ever we cherish during the life, is reduced to ashes and base elements at one point.

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Ganesh Visarjan 2014 is done in a very celebratory fashion in Maharashtra, where for the entire day, the streets are filled with people chanting, dancing to tracks around the Ganesh idol and towards the end of the day, the immersion of Ganesh idol is done in the large water bodies, i.e. either in the lakes, river or sea.