Thiruvanaikka

[Guest guest]

Talking abt ganesha and elephants, the inner temples in tamilnadu and

probabl few others are built so elephants cannot enter the inner

sanctum. Lili was telling elephants represent saturn. Prob something

needs to be undone.

 

> Notes:

> 1. This is a agathuRai song. Foster mother

> talks the love of the girl on God.

> 2. kOcceNkaTcOzan built the inner temple of

> thiruvAnaikkA. This is a temple that is associated

> with his previous birth. Details could be found at

> http://www.shaivam.org/nakoochc.html

> He is praised here by sambandhar.

> 3. cembiyar - chozar.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Well, let us not forget that Ganesha's vahana (vehicle) is the rat, a creature

famous for its ability to get around everywhere! So one can assume that if a rat

can get in somewhere, that Ganesha is there also! The image of a Deity with an

elephant's head and seated on a rat helps us overcome the limitations of logic

and the obstacle of a limited mind, which dictates that it should be "the other

way around". True enough, on the MATERIAL PLANE, that is!

 

But on the planes of mind, anything is possible, even elephants riding on rats!

Thus the distinction between "mental reality" and "material reality" is drawn,

for those with minds subtle enough to appreciate this difference. It is in this

way that Ganesha serves to break down the obstacles between devotee and Deity,

when correctly propitiated.

 

Lilith M.

 

--- vimalananda_mouli <vimalananda_mouli

wrote:

> Talking abt ganesha and elephants, the inner temples

> in tamilnadu and

> probabl few others are built so elephants cannot

> enter the inner

> sanctum. Lili was telling elephants represent

> saturn. Prob something

> needs to be undone.