Today's day- Onam, Engineer's day and end of Ganesh Utsav!!

 Today is main day of Onam.

Today is Engineer's day.

Today is last day of Ganesh Utsav.

What a remarkable day? Wish you all happy Onam, Engineer's day and have a grand celebration of Ganesha utsav. 

The celebrations of Onam are deeply related to the rule of King Bali and his generosity on the land of Kerala. He was an asura or demon by birth and was the grandson of Great Prahlada. Being a demon king, the skills and principles possessed by him were matchless. He fought a war with Lord Indra and all gods and demigods under him to conquer all the three realms of the universe (Heaven, Earth, and Nether world) and succeeded.

Soon after Bali decided to do an Ashwamedha Yajna (a ritual sacrifice) in order to maintain his rule over the three realms and also declared to grant anyone anything during the yajna to make it successful.

The 5th Incarnation of Lord Vishnu: Vamana

This frightened all the gods including Indra and they begged in front of Lord Vishnu to assist them in retrieving their kingdom. But Lord Vishnu rejected their pleas as Bali was an incredibly great and a loyal ruler and his own disciple too. Later, Lord Vishnu approached King Bali in the form of a short Brahmin called Vamana (his 5th Incarnation) and asked for ‘three paces of the land’ from Bali. (In reality, it was God Kabir Ji who acquired the form of Vamana and later presented Himself as Lord Vishnu).

Upon Bali’s agreement, Vamana expanded into gigantic proportions and enclosed earth and the heaven in just two paces. For the third pace, the king proposed his own head in order to keep his promise and thus proved his devotion.

Then Lord Vishnu stepped on his head and pushed him into the nether world and granted him privilege in return of his devotion, by which the King could come annually to the places he governed. Since then the homecoming of King Bali’s spirit is celebrated as Onam.

Today is also Engineer's day birth anniversary of M Visvesvaraya. Thinking of him I just get drifted to visiting Visvesvaraya industrial and technical museum Bangalore. 

And ofcourse our celebrations for Ganapati is coming to an end. Today's day is definitely gonna be very enjoyable. So, enjoy to core of your heart.