I lower Ganesha into the open well🔗

I took Ganesha in one hand and kept some food in the other hand. I showed him the well and told him, "See this well? I will throw you inside." I tried this two or three times. But he was not opening his mouth! There used to be a bucket with which they would draw water from the well. I put Ganesha in the bucket and started lowering him into the well with a small rope, and threatening him, "See? I will really drown you!" Within ten feet the water was there. It was a village well, and the groundwater level was very high. Especially in Arunachala, even with three hundred and sixty-seven tanks all around the hill, the groundwater level was still very high, just ten feet!

When the bucket was about to touch the water, I suddenly realized that he might have changed his mind and might want to eat, but I had not put any food in the bucket! If he changed his mind now, how would he eat? I had seen My uncles: they would carry the kid and show him the well and tell him, "I will throw you inside right now!" Then the kid would cry, "No! No! I will listen to whatever you say!"