Ganamaga

This word is very familiar for people of my place. Ganamaga is priest. Weekly once or twice god enters his body and you are allowed to ask question to god, ask for solution............

Oh, talking to god is so easy in my place right? Just pay some money, I think 50rs for one question. There are so many temples in Thirthalli and south kendra (Mangalore, Udipi). And most of them are famous because of these ganamaga. I have seen the Ganamaga of a place called Mandarthi near to Mangalore.

On Tuesday and Friday godess Durga Parameshwari enters his body and you are allowed to discuss your problem with her. After main pooja, those who are interested in asking questions to godess, wait in queue. After some time you see a lean person wearing 'mundu'. You see him running, shivering and his body will be wet, as he enters temple after taking bath from well.

Then he will stand there. But constantly he will be murmuring something and people start asking questions. He gives solution. Oh! sorry, godess Durgaparameshwari gives solution.

Leave the temples, there will be at least one woman in every village who behave very strangely on certain occasions. They say that godess enters their body. And people do treat them like godess.

Once Ajja told me this story. There was one person called Sankarayya Gowda. Once his wife started behaving very strangely and declared that godess Durga is in her body. Then people treated her with respect. One day Sankarayya Gowda was very frustrated he entered house. At the same time Durga also entered the body of his wife. She started scolding her husband. He watched her for 5 minutes, took one stick and started beating her. That was the final visit made by Durga devi to his wife's body.

Most of the women, get frustrated by the very constraints put to them by their husband, in-laws. They need a way to get out their frustration and this is the best way. They can't scold their husband directly. So they seek the help of Durga.

One of my friend told me this. "As long you respect yourself, you also respect others. Because the world you see is just the mirror image of yourself"

Please have self respect and treat others also respectfully. Because Love and Respect are two things which you can get only when you give them to others. No money in this world is capable of buying these two things.