Ganesh is one of the Hindi Gods. He has a body of a small boy and a head of a baby elephant. People pray to him when they are starting something new, or starting anything. They pray to him for help in eliminating their obstacles and achieving their goals.
To celebrate Ganesh, people create and decorate huge clay statues of Ganesh and drive them to a river (or body of water) to set them off. Today isn't quite the real celebration yet, it was only the day that everyone finished their Ganesh statues to show them off to the town. So everyone who had finished a statue, drove around town all day with their statues displayed in their truck beds. In a week or so they will drift the statues off into a body of water. The river's here are highly revered and being dunked in a river is said to take away all of your bad karma.
We went out for breakfast this morning. It took us a while to find a clean place to eat, but we were finally directed to a place near the train station and we ate doshas, one of the 2 dishes that I know. It's a huge pancake/soft crispy taco and it's usually filled with different curried foods, and is always served with a side of coconut sauce.
For lunch we ate crackers, veg puffs (a crossaint type thing with spicy vegetables inside), and mango juice.
When we got back to the hotel we worked on the plans for Life University. We started figuring out the plans for the first acre (which is named BhodiSthaan). There will be a few workers that need to set up camp at the site to learn the features of the land more clearly before the big plans for building and developing the site take place. Once the first acre is established, workshops and short courses will start. So far we have placed six huts, storage/work yard, a bamboo perimeter fence, a meditation hut and garden, and an herb garden and vegetable gardens onto our map design.
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