I would like to express my devotion towards Lord Ganesha through this essay.

The folk tale is about the creation of ‘Amavasya’. While coming back from somewhere, while riding on his vehicle, Mushak Maharaj, due to the lack of light and the incapability of Mushak to carry Lord Ganesha, his vehicle tripped over a rock and both of them fell with a loud thud. Since it was night time, Chandra Dev (Moon) was over them and when Lord Ganesha fell down, Chandra Dev burst into laughter and started laughing extremely loudly until Lord Ganesha could hear him. Lord Ganesha was embarrassed and had warned Chandra Dev to stop laughing; however, Chandra Dev kept laughing non-stop. Lord Ganesha was then compelled to curse Chandra Dev to be invisible to everyone in the universe. The curse went into immediate effect and plunged the universe in total darkness. There was chaos everywhere. Chandra Dev was begging Lord Ganesha to take back his curse but Lord Ganesha had said that the curse cannot be taken back. Lord Ganesha went back to Mount Kailash and consulted his mother, Mata Parvati. She then told Ganesha that he should have controlled his emotions and should not have cursed Chandra Dev which had an effect on everyone in the universe. She then told Ganesha to reduce the effect of the curse by capping the darkness to only 1 day in the month known as ‘Amavasya’.

What we can learn from this folk tale would be that we should not act in haste and think things through. We should not let our emotions control us; we should be the ones controlling our emotions. Therefore, in 1 month, there is always a day with the moon not visible to everyone that is called ‘Amavasya’.