PLEASING GODS & GODDESSES

GODS AND FLOWERS


God said--- you offer me any flower or even leaves with sincerity and devotion, I accept it with pleasure, but in Bhubaneswar, the Capital city of Odissa, people have different ideas about pleasing the Gods. This city is also known as Temple city. Coming back to the topic of flowers this is what happens day in and day out in this place. People pay small amount to girls or boys to steal flowers from the neighbor’s garden. Sometimes grown up ladies, gentleman or even old men climb the wall and pluck flowers from other's garden.
Hindus have some two hundred or more occasion for special Pujas to their favorite God or Goddesses, so flowers are in demand throughout the year. If you have a garden small or big with flowers, you have to bear the pathetic condition of your plants when you get up in the morning, as the early birds (flower thieves) have plucked them leaving a few for your God.
This is small episode which will make you relieve your stress if you have similar problem.
Mrs: Richa: “did you hear me, Sandeep? The old man has plucked the morning glory flowers.”
Mr: Sandeep: “So what, you have to bear with It.!”
Richa: But they are stealing flowers to please the Gods, this is bad!”
Sandeep: But God knows it’s from our garden, so without any efforts from our side, someone else is doing it for us, so why worry?”
Richa: But this is not correct, that old man who comes early once asked me ‘some one is taking away the flowers before me, madam? Why don’t you abuse him?’
See, he is doing it for months and with out any shame he is telling me to watch out, shameless people?
Sandeep: before we came here, my friend Bhabani had told me about the corruptions here and flower-thieves of Bhubaneswar, that’s why I was not interested for this flower garden. But do not worry, God knows all and we need not bother about these flower thieves and increase our blood pressure and tension.
Richa: I must thank you for your logic.
Thank God, Richa and Sandeep's plants bloom flowers round the year in plenty and keep Richa and the flower thieves happy.