Ganesha : The Remover of Obstacles

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Ganesha : The Remover of Obstacle

Jai Jai Vandan bhuvan Nandan gauri ganeshDukh dwandan fandan haranSunder suvan mahesh

Glory, Glory, all glory to you, O Ganaesha: to you the whole world pays homage,

for you are the delight of Gauri and the charming son of Shiva. You are the

extirpator of all pairs of contraries ( such as joy and sorrow, birth and

death, attration and repulsion, etc ) and deliverer from them. A son of Shiva

with face like that of elephant, Ganesa or Ganapati was appointed chief of the

ganas (attendants) or lord of hosts by his father. Though there are several

accounts of his birth, in one given by the chalisa, Parvati is said to have

"created him from the scurf of her body so that he could act as her

door-guardian." When Shiva tried to enter the room where Parvati had gone to

take her bath clad in a single clothing, Ganapati prevented him from doing so.

Enraged at this obstruction, Shiva cut off his head, but, in order to placate

Parvati, he offered to replace it with that of elephant. To those who explain

his appearance symbolically, " his obesity contains the whole universe, his

trunk is bent to remove obstsacle, and his four arms represent the four

categories into which things (e.g. castes, vedas) can be divided. His companion

animal (vahana) is a bandicoot. " This is illustrative of the several ways in

which obstacles can be overcome, to attain religious ends. While the elephant

tramples down all that comes in its path, the bandicoot creeps through narrow

holes and cracks to achieve the same ends. Ganesha is painted red in colour,

though in some texts he is represented as a short fat man of yellow colour,

with a protuberant belly, forehands, and the head of an elephant, which has

only one tusk. As one who banishes all obstacles, he is invoked on all

auspicious occasions, at the commencement of ritual or begining of a journey;

as a God of learning and wisdom, he is adored by all seekers of knowledge and

authors begin their compositions with the words Namoh Ganeshaya Vighnesvaraya.

He has two wives: with Riddhi and Siddhi.

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