India Post News Service
Ganesh Visarjan celebrated in Fremont temple on Sep 8, 2022. Hundreds of devotees participated at the event. The festival dedicated to the Lord Ganesh had begun on August 31. At the culmination of the festival on Anant Chaturdashi, the idols of Lord Ganesh were taken to nearby water bodies and immersed. On this day, devotees perform aarti by lighting a diya and incense sticks. They offer flowers, modak, haldi-kumkum, roli, paan, etc. to the Ganesh idol and then carry it for visarjan. These days visarjan is done in an eco-friendly way either by immersing the Ganesh idol in a water vessel at home or in artificial ponds. Devotees also believe that as Lord Ganesha leaves, he takes away all the pain, problems and negativity with him and showers blessings upon his devotees.