This is something my mother told me when I really young. Here's how the story goes. Ganesha, our beloved elephant-god, was hungry one night and saw what he thought was a coconut. The coconut was the reflection of the moon in the water and when Ganesha couldn't pick up the "coconut", the moon laughed at him.
Ganesha cursed the moon and so, if someone looks at the moon on Ganesha's birthday, that is Ganesh Chaturthi, he will be falsely accused of wrong doing. According to legends, even Krishna wasn't immune and was falsely accused of stealing a gem, after he saw the moon on Ganesh Chathurthi.
Now, I've been told that you can look at the moon, once a lamp has been lit at home.
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