Ganesh, The Elephant God

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Elephant. A logo of energy and gentleness. The severed head of Ganesh signifies the dying of the person ego and his elephant head, the common soul. It is a story from Hindu mythology of the elephant God, Ganesh, gatekeeper and protector…could it empower and encourage the elephant in you…..

There may be extra to this story than meets the (deceived) eye. It’s a narrative of God intentionally deceiving himself as a way to play. Play is God’s nature, btw. And. Maya, the veil of phantasm arose like a shadow of the solar to make doable this Fake Recreation of Leela to allow God to play cube with himself or his female counterpart. He’s additionally the actor in all his scripts and in a single such play, his feminine counterpart created Ganesh, their Son/Solar, the divine baby. Ganesh is mild, the remover of the impediment, the veil of phantasm, the partition between Oneness so God and his female half may see their one true self (after) they’ve been correctly cleansed of their satisfaction and conceitedness and all of the vices that hold them from one another. Typically, in the course of the play, our imaginative and prescient is so dim on this deliberate sport of deception, we overlook it is a play. Good Job. However. Bother ensues once we overlook that that is all a play of faux. It results in extra struggling. Once we’re unfavourable, we do unfavourable issues. And the deeper we’re dragged into our personal darkness, the deeper the struggling. The struggling turns into actual.

Maya is the darkness, the shadow of sunshine. In darkness, we generally see phantoms as an alternative of a rope and till the sunshine of day, we’re satisfied we actually noticed the reality. We want mild to weed out the darkish and to reassure that a part of the thoughts that’s consistently on guard and sees solely hazard throughout. However we worry the sunshine. We really feel it would let down our guards and endanger us. However. The reality is once we’re consistently on guard is what places us at risk. I imply, once we search for hazard, we’ll see hazard and once we act on it, we injure our self and others. Why not as an alternative attempt to see the sunshine in everybody as an alternative of their darkish aspect? Do this at your subsequent social gathering, see solely the sunshine in others and also you’ll find yourself having time, even turn out to be associates together with your enemies, vanquish them with love and affection. Every of us is so totally different and generally for us all to turn out to be oneness, we’d like music, some liquor, good meals, night’s darkness. The liquor makes us overlook our false self, shuts down our heavy burdensome, consistently plotting and judging mind, and very quickly we loosen up, (actually and figuratively) all giddy and stuffed with enjoyable and laughter.

This story additionally hides the best secret of all. It is like a treasure hunt on your personal treasure you hid a very long time in the past however you overlook the place you buried it. It is the important thing to salvation. Search and ye shall discover…it. ~~amy Ramdass

Amy’s Version of this divine story :-
Legend within the type of the Shiva Purana has it this fashion:- The Goddess Parvati wanted a shower however who would guard the doorway to her rest room? You see, Parvati’s Lord, Shiva, God of dying and transcendence was away at battle…

Nevertheless, it was a short-lived dilemma for you see, the goddess in Parvati quickly had an incredible concept. She would create her personal gatekeeper ! Thus, a little bit god referred to as Ganesh, got here into being…….to face guard on the entrance of his creatrix’s personal world and never let anybody interrupt her throughout her bathtub, not even God, himself. It will seem as if she was decided to maintain her particular person goddess self firmly planted right here in her illusory world however actually, she was making ready to satisfy her God, her different half however she needed to be prepared, completely. Legend has it that if one is just not prepared and God comes, issues may go extremely fallacious and we find yourself turning into Kali. Anyway, again to the story.

Shiva returned dwelling to discover a stranger standing guard on his doorsteps. He was extremely puzzled. Who was this little impudent fella to forbade him entry into his own residence, grrr? Shiva refused to suppose any additional, he flew right into a rage and chopped off Ganesh’s head.

When Parvati emerged from her rest room, she was devastated to search out her son’s life snuffed out. Sheflew right into a rage and the battle of the sexes started in ernest. Shiva introduced out all his massive (male) weapons and Parvati summoned her goddess women side-kick, Durga and Kali. Ganesh defeated all the various male opponents. In the long run, Shiva had no choice however to slay Ganesh with Trishul, his trident.

Parvati bought madder than ever. She threatened to burn down this kingdom. And she or he would have too however Shiva grew to become contrite. He was starting to see the error of his methods and the way he bought deluded by his personal Maya.

To make amends, Shiva chopped the top off the primary animal he met, an elephant, and positioned it on the top of the boy and his life was restored. And Ganesh, Lord of Towering Power has been residing fortunately ever after in our hearts ever since. Aww, the candy child god. ~amy ramdass

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