Monday, 17 September 2018
Symbolism of Ganesha
The Speaking Tree | Spirituality
| ET
By Lakshmi Venkatachalam
The figure of Ganesha represents an ideal, a medium for us to get in
touch with our spirituality.
Ancient Indic seers discovered a basic unity or harmony underlying all
of life and its forms, despite the apparent chaos. Life has three stages of
evolution, according to Vedantic thought: birth, growth, and death, the
trinity, a continuous chain taking place again and again, with progress
achieved in each scale of evolution.
Sages foresaw obstacles in cosmic progress, and installed the first born
of Shiva, the destroyer, and his consort Parvathi, Ganesha, as the god to be
propitiated, Vigneshwara, for removal of obstructions and to achieve success in
any work undertaken.
He is also called Ganapati, the leader of Shiva’s ganas; as Vinayaka,
the supreme leader. He is the master of vidya, knowledge and the champion of
worldly achievement. Even the other gods in the Hindu pantheon pray to Ganesha,
according to the puranas.
He is depicted generally in a seated pose to show that the mind and
intellect are totally integrated. The pose also resembles that first primeval
cosmic sound in Sanskrit, AUM, from the beginning of creation itself.
He has a bulky body, symbolic of the entire cosmos, the big belly
symbolising space and digesting all experiences of life. The snake around his
expansive waist is like a girdle.
One tusk is broken — as the perfect student, he has gone beyond the
pairs of opposites, beyond the subjective and the objective, to a higher plane
of consciousness.
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.
Quote from the True Charm and Power of Vedanta
Sleep is a
Veittie which embraces the feeling of voidness
The next
class of Veitte is called sleep and dream. When we awake we know that we have
been sleeping we can only have memory of perception. That which we do not
perceive we never can have any memory of .Every reaction is a wave in the lake
. Now, if, during sleep, the mind had no waves. It would have no perceptions
positive or negative, and therefore, we would not remember them. The very
reason of our remembering sleep is that during sleep there was a certain class
of waves in the mind . Memory is another class of Vritis which is called Smriti. Curtsey raja yoga
But, if He exists?
I drive joy There was a
doctor in Benaras who spent 7 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation
on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they
argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been
misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I
agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you
are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a
lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive 4m.
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