There are three timeless principles in the Universe that foster our healing and catalyze our remembrance as the essence of Spirit.
These are the qualities of Source known as obstacle removal/protection; creativity/wisdom; and abundance.
These qualities are part of the myriad rainbow of energies and powers that are invisible yet can be made manifest through our human system and thus into our physical world.
Protection/Obstacle Removal/Smoothening of the Way:
We have created so much karma knowingly and unknowingly in this lifetime and others lifetimes. So we have to appeal to Grace to help us clean it up. We need protection from malevolent energies that bombard us in our day to day. We need Grace to step in and help us smoothen out some of our karma so that we can succeed in our careers and relationships. This obstacle removal energy of Grace is known as the Deity, Ganesh. The Romans borrowed this name and called it "Janus" and later became a part of Jupiter....." Ganesh means "Ruler of the Ganas--a race of multitudes of protector beings."--or pure benevolence.
Ganesh is depicted as elephant-headed. This is highly symbolic.
His trunk represents our spinal cord. His left eye is the eye of his Mother, (the Divine Mother--Devi or Shakti), and his right eye is that of his Father who is the primordial Source or Shiva. So when you put each eye together it forms the face of Ganesh with the trunk in between his parents' eyes. Another way of understanding this is that the head of Ganesh represents our Left Brain but right eye (father/male energy) and Right Brain (Divine Feminine energy) but left eye-----Remember the opposite brain hemisphere controls the opposite side of the body--See how amazing the ancients are? with the trunk being the spinal column---both male and female principles---all waiting to awaken--as we use only a fraction of our brain power.
Ganesh helps us awaken our brain power that is dormant, normally and thus our untold hidden gifts that are part of us and are underutilized Invoking the Ganesh energy gradually awakens these dormant faculties of our brain inside of us, waiting to bloom like a beautiful potential rose bud.
So he is personified as big headed elephant being to remind us of our huge potential that is not yet awakened. Ganesh is the most popular deity in the Eastern traditions, actually. Click below on this video from you Tube: Ganesh thus mirrors our own innate power and magnitude of energy that we all have.
Most people want a path that is smooth," so appealing to grace in the form of protection and karma removal is what many need and desire. So invoking Ganesh awakens the obstacle removing power within our own brain and DNA that is normally dormant. We need protection upon our path and we need the energy of Ganesh to invoke our wisdom to embrace a path of Light and not that of darkness if we are consciously choosing to stay out of Darkness. So his head represents our brains' need to wake up and discern and take courageous action when we realize what is Light and what is Dark in this creation. Ganesh helps to steer away from Darkness..... If we remain in darkness, then that is our choice---best of luck; it only teaches us what it is to suffer and allow others to suffer, from what I know and understand.
Without such Grace, we are easily fooled by the Dark. We succumb to greed, deception, selling of Self, and illusion without developing our inner free will and power to realize what is really important in life versus how negativity is going to take us for a "joy-ride," in the form of false promises and illusions that only lead to our own demise and compromise. Focusing on Ganesh allows our inner strength to increase and our fear to dissolve. Ganesh increases our courage and stamina. Chanting or even just listening to the sounds of this powerful name mysteriously provides comfort and allows our karma to dissolve or at least reduce.
When kundalini and thus deeper meditation and awareness is awakened, this deity can actually be seen deep inside of us, especially at the base of the spine and the point between the eyebrows.
He has many forms and holds many objects of symbolic significance---a discussion for another blog----Each item he holds represent his qualities and his abilities to offer protection, obstacle removal and fear reducing energy.
His stories are legendary. He is the most popular because people think of him as a little panda bear---cuddly and sweet.....yet do not be fooled for one second---when he has the job to do of protecting us and removing obstacles in our lives he spares no power and becomes the Supreme Power to perform his role. Suffice for now to just become absorbed in the sound of the mantra on the video--one of the classical mantras for Ganesh.
"Om Gam Ganapathaaye Namah"---Means, "I bow down to the inner energy of Grace in the form of protection, obstacle and fear removal so that I may attain all of my worthy goals and aspirations."
If we truly want Light, then we need to remove anything and everything standing in our way to attain and remember Light---Ganesh energy assists in this process....the point is that we must be sincere to gain this Grace.
Dr. Rama---next time I will write about creativity/wisdom and abundance energies---all aspects of Grace.
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