Loving Ganesha: Chapter 13 (Section 3) - Around the World -- Paribhuvanam

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font-family:Arial">Namaste all,

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font-family:Arial">Most of you may recall that up until the end of June I had

been posting the book ‘Loving Ganesha’. I would like to now begin to post the

rest of this wonderful work, a little at a time, picking up where it left off.

There is still a substantial amount of

this book to be shared as we are only at chapter 13, with another 9 chapters to

explore after this one. This page

can be found at http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/lg/lg_ch-13.html

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font-family:Arial">May Lord Ganesh bless each and every one of us.

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12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Om Shanti,

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Since

1972 many other devotees have seen Lord Ganesha in their visions and dreams.

For example, several pilgrims on the 1981 India Odyssey, a spiritual pilgrimage

to the holy lands of ancient Bharat (India), had life-altering visions of Lord

Ganesha at the Shri Kumbalavalai Temple in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Such visions of Lord Ganesha clarify

much about the way this great Lord works. While the visions took place within

the subtle minds of His devotees, or our microcosm, this subtle space is in

fact enormous and quite a macrocosm of its own.

Just as

Lord Ganesha's vehicle, the tiny rodent, ferrets out

every secret space and hidden area of the house, so does this Great Mahadeva

have the ability to move within the seemingly most

obscure and intricate areas of our minds. He is the master of both the big and

the small, the macrocosm and the microcosm.

Lord Ganesha's great girth is the entire

manifestation of all that is, of the five elements of earth, air, fire, water

and ether. Thus, He pervades all, not from the outside in but from the inside

out. He does not move to pervade, for all form in its purest state is together,

not far apart. Seated unmoving on the broad, four-petalled

lotus of the muladhara

chakra, Lord Ganesha records and governs the

movements of vast inner oceans of

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manifest as forms so many millions of miles apart. He is at work through all

the outwardly gross forms of nature, and yet mounted on his tiny mouse He can,

in utter minuteness, travel about within His devotees' minds as if they were

great, well-lit caverns. Such is the mystery of the pompous elephant-faced God,

the embodiment of form who rides the mouse.

During

puja at the Madhaya Kailasa

Temple in Chennai, devotees saw and continue to see Ganesha, the elephant God,

and Hanuman, the monkey God, merging into one, as the alpha and omega of

existence. To honor this unusual form, in 1993 a

five-metal image, half Ganesha and half Hanuman, was created and enshrined. It

all started with a series of early morning visions that graced devotees of the

two unusual Gods in the great Hindu pantheon of 330 million.

The final

vision to recite is one that I had in the mid-1980s of Lord Ganesha walking

from His temple attended by two priests. He was about to take a bath in the

beautiful Indian

Ocean in

the country of Mauritius where the river meets the sea. I was

standing in the water with several sharks swimming around me. Lord Ganesha,

accompanied by two priests, looked at me and said,

"Just rub some oil on their noses and they will not harm you." This

vivid mystic experience is illustrated on the next page.

Remember,

such visions of this great Lord do not come only to the meditating yogis, but

to sincere bhaktas

as well -- those who by virtue of their sukarma receive this special grace

at particularly auspicious times in their lives.

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Our Loving Ganesha

Loving Ganesha is

our friend indeed.

He is our protector,

The God we go to when in need.

Loving Ganesha knows our future and past.

He is our conscience,

The God we go to when we want to move fast.

Loving

Ganesha is the God on our side.

He is immediate,

The God we pray to when we want to abide.

Loving

Ganesha is our loving Lord.

He is our All,

The God that we shall all look toward.

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font-family:Arial">Loving Ganesha by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

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font-family:Arial">Web sites: http://www.hindu.org/

& http://www.himalayanacademy.com/

email: contact (AT) hindu (DOT) org

Himalayan Academy

Kauai's Hindu Monastery

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[Guest guest]

That book is wonderful, I carry my copy with me everywhere, please keep

posting it, I am sure many others will enjoy it, take care Keri

 

There is nothing more pure than the love of an animal. IN LOVING MEMORY

OF LEO, LOLLI, AND PEANUT

[Guest guest]

Namaste Neilcito!

 

Thanks a lot for your posts on Loving Ganesha and for all the effort

in obtaining the material and the authorisation to publish it between

us...I admit I´ve been reading them in an irregular manner since I was

stressed with the house sale...but I am catching up...

peace and love

 

barb

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font-family:Arial">Namaste Barbara,

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font-family:Arial">So pleased to learn you have sold the house!

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Arial">  Congratulations!!!  When you find your countryside home I hope

Ganesh will have a place there too. 

Perhaps he will even bring Lakshmi and Saraswati with him!

(fingers-crossed)

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font-family:Arial">Thank you for your kind words regarding sharing Loving

Ganesha, however, it is not an effort on my part.  It is a joy to share spiritual works,

especially those that are swimming in devotion. 

Hope you manage to read even just a paragraph a day.  Even the tiniest amount is good

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font-family:Arial">Not sure if Sy will respond this now, I know she is flat out

like a lizard drinking (a bit of Ozzie lingo there in respect of our dear Syji)

for another week or two with deadlines for her publisher and with Rudraksha

orders.  So if she doesn’t stick

her head in don’t worry its only cause she is having an extremely busy

period.

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font-family:Arial">Again congratulations with selling the house Barbara, very

happy for you.

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12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Om Shanti

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aqesa

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29 September 2003 21:20

 

Re: Loving

Ganesha: Chapter 13 (Section 3) - Around the World -- Paribhuvanam

 

Namaste Neilcito!

Thanks a lot

for your posts on Loving Ganesha and for all the effort

in obtaining

the material and the authorisation to publish it between

us...I admit

I´ve been reading them in an irregular manner since I was

stressed

with the house sale...but I am catching up...

10.0pt">peace and love

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[Guest guest]

Thanks for your beautiful reply Neil...

Its good to feel your good and joyful vibes !

As for Syji...may her work be prosperous and joyful aswell with little

stress if any!

 

love&peace

Barbar