Episode 3 of mAs-sage n mEs-sage

Wish you a fulfilling VinayakI Chaturti all around. Unfortunately, most of us don’t recognise that, many a times in our lives, trouble is inevitable & thus its occurrence is not fully under our individual control but most definitely the suffering (due to such troubles) is always optional for everybody. Luckily, to deal with such troubles, many of us are aware of external troubleshooting mechanisms/rituals/opportunities/occasions like the monthly Sankashtahara Chaturti. While that’s the well-known fourth day of the waning phase of the moon 🌓, the Vinayaki Chaturti 🌒 is its lesser known equivalent in the waxing phase every month. One such VinayakI Chaturti occurring in the lunar 🌒 month of Bhadrapada is what becomes the well-known VinayakA Chaturti & is therefore grandly commemorated by most. But the other eleven such VinayakI Chaturtis occurring in the remaining eleven months, such as the one today, also deserve rightful recognition & celebrations. Let’s explore how & why.

While the 🌓 waning/Sankashtahara Chaturti is a day occurring (soon after a bhakti-endowed Pournami🌕) every month for us to surrender like a 🧒 child 👶🏻 to the omnipresent divinity 🕉 all around us transforming itself into our unfailing troubleshooter, the waxing/Vinayaki Chaturti 🌒, on the other hand, is a day occurring (soon after a jnana-endowed Amavasya🌑) every month for us to recognise the omnipresent divinity right within us & hence become the omnipotent troubleshooters ourselves!!! That’s the vibe of the day today... so let’s all endeavour through our sadhana today (& in its recurrence every month) to be limitlessly responsible troubleshooters ourselves for everything in LIFE, period... not in a narrow-minded ‘our’ life or ‘their’ lives!