Loving Ganesha: Chapter 11 (Section 4) - Prayer to Lord Ganesha -- Ganapati Prarthanah

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Shri Ganesha Upanishad

Excerpts from Ganapatyatharshirsham,Translated from Sankrit by Dr. Vasant Lad

Aum! Let us listen with our ears to that which is auspicious, adorable one. Let

us perceive with our eyes what is holy and auspicious. With strong, stable body

and limbs, may we seek the divine grace and accept the noble order of all our

life.

I surrender to you, Lord Ganesha. You are the speaker. You are the listener. You

are the giver. You are the sustainer. I am your disciple. Protect me from the

front and back. Protect me from the north and the south, from above and below.

Protect me from all directions.

You are full of perfect knowledge of truth and awareness. You are full of bliss

and pure consciousness. You are truth, consciousness and bliss. You are the

absolute awareness. You are full of supreme wisdom and knowledge.

You are the earth, water, fire, air and the space. You are the root foundation

of speech. You are beyond the three gunas: sattva, rajas and tamas. You are

beyond the physical, mental and causal bodies. You are beyond the three aspects

of time: past, present and future. You are eternally established in the

muladhara chakra. You have three shaktis: action, knowledge and will.

Salutation to the Ganapati whose seed mantra is Aum Gam. We know Ekadanta, the

One-tusked God, the unique God. We meditate upon Vakratunda, the curved-trunk

God. May that unique elephant God illumine our consciousness and direct us

along the right track.

One should meditate upon Lord Ganesha having one tusk and four arms; holding the

noose and goad with two of them; with the other two indicating varada, the

giving of boons and blessings, and abhaya mudra, the fear removing gesture;

having a mouse as the emblem on his ensign; possessing a big, beautiful belly

and large, lovely ears which look like winnowing baskets; having a red cloth

and His whole body covered with red sandalwood paste. He should be worshiped

with red flowers. He manifests Himself as the universe and is beyond prakriti,

matter, and Purusha, the manifest God. One who worships Ganesha in this way

forever is the best of yogis.

Prostrations to Vratapati, the Lord of Plenty. Prostrations to Ganapati, the

Lord of various groups of Gods. Prostrations to Pramathapati, the Lord of

Siva's hosts. Prostrations to Lambodara, the full-bellied God with a single

tusk, destroyer of obstacles, the Son of Siva, the Bestower of all Blessings.

He who chants this Ganapati Upanishad will verily get established in Brahman,

the pure awareness. He will never encounter any obstacles. He will be happy

everywhere. He will be free from the five great sins and lesser ones. By

reciting this in the evening, the day's sins are destroyed.

By reciting this in the early morning, one becomes free from the sins committed

at night in dreams. Reciting this morning and evening, one becomes totally free

from all sins. He becomes totally free from all obstacles. He achieves the four

divine ends of life: dharma, artha, kama and moksha: virtue, wealth, pleasure

and liberation. Aum Ganesha sharanam, sharanam Ganesha.

 

 

Loving Ganesha by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

 

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