Loving Ganesha: Chapter 17 (Section 2) - Saint Auvaiyar Ma--Sadhvi Auvaiyar Ma

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More of chapter 17, and a very lovely

piece it is too, found at http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/lg/lg_ch-17.html.

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font-style:italic">Vinayaka Ahaval

Adoration to the Remover of

Obstacles

Translated from

Tamil by Tiru K. Swaminathan

(From Om Ganesha, the Peace of

God)

Cool,

fragrant lotus feet

with anklets tinkling sweet,

gold girdle, flower-soft garment

setting off the comely hips,

pot-belly and big, heavy tusk,

elephant-face with the bright red mark,

five hands, the goad, the noose,

blue body dwelling in the heart,

pendulous jaws, four mighty shoulders,

three eyes and the three required marks,

two ears, the gold crown gleaming,

the breast aglow with the triple thread,

O Being, bright and beautiful!

Wish-yielding elephant, born of the

Master of Mystery in Mount Kailasa,

mouse-rider, fond of the three famed fruits,

desiring to make me yours this instant,

you like a mother have appeared before me

and cut the delusion of unending births.

You have come and entered my heart,

imprinting clear the five prime letters,

set foot in the world in the form of a guru,

declared the final truth is this, gladly,

graciously shown the way of life unfading.

With that unfailing weapon, your glance,

you have put an end to my heinous sins,

poured in my ear uncloying

precepts,

laid bare for me the clarity

of ever-fresh awareness,

sweetly given me your sweet grace

for firm control of the senses five,

taught how to still the organs of action;

snapped my two-fold karma and dispelled

my darkness, giving, out of grace,

a place for me in all four states;

dissolved the illusion of triple filth,

taught me how to shut the five

sense gates of the nine-door temple,

fixed me firm in the six yogic centers,

stilled my speech, taught me

the writ of ida and pingala

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shown me at last the head of sushumna.

To the tongue of the serpent that sinks and soars

you have brought the force sustaining the three

bright spheres of sun, moon and fire --

the mantra unspoken asleep in the snake --

and explicitly uttered it;

imparted the skill of raising by breath

the raging flame of muladhara

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explained the secret of immortality,

the sun's movement and the charm

of the moon; the water lily's friend,

the sixteen states of the prasada mantra;

revealed to me in thoughtful wisdom

the six-faced form and the meanings four;

disclosed to me the subtle body

and the eight separate modes of being;

the orifice of Brahman opened,

giving me miraculous powers,

by your sweet grace, and mukti

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revealed my Self to me and by your grace

swept away accumulated karma,

stilled my mind in tranquil calm

beyond speech and thought;

clarified my intellect, plunged me

in bliss which is the common ground

of light and darkness.

Boundless beatitude you have given me,

ended all affliction, shown the way of grace:

Siva eternal at the core of sound,

Sivalinga within the heart,

atom within atom, vast beyond all vastness,

sweetness hid in the hardened node.

You have steadied me clear in human form

all besmeared with holy ashes;

added me to the congregation

of your servants true and trusty;

made me experience in my heart

the inmost meaning of the five letters;

restored my real state to me;

and rule me now, O Master of Wisdom,

Vinayaka. Your feet alone,

O Master of Wisdom, Vinayaka, your feet

alone, are my sole refuge.

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

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