Shri Ganesha and Jesus Christ - symbols of the Self

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> , " v_koa " <v_koa>

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> > Also i read the article on the mooldhara and Shri Gnesha and how

> > important it is to meditate on Shri ganesha. Kind of confused as

> > to if i am suppose to focus on the shakti or ganesha or what.

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, " jagbir singh "

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> If you are having problems with the Mooladhara Chakra then it is

> advisable to meditate on Shri Ganesha too. It will also help the

> Kundalini to rise and vibrations to flow. Normally i always recite

> His mantras before meditation. i do not think that Shri Mataji

> meant that we meditate on Shri Ganesha all the time.

>

 

Dear Kyyan,

 

There is a special relationship between Lord Ganesha and Jesus. Only

when you believe Jesus' proclaimation that " Before Abraham was I am "

(Jn.8:58) will you realize the explosive reincarnation revelation of

the Shakti that both are one and the same, symbols of the Self as

well. Please read the article " Shri Ganesha and Jesus Christ -

symbols of the Self " by Stefania Dimitrova. It is a rather difficult

for Hindus and Christians to relate Lord Ganesha with Jesus, and

vice versa. But in the Kingdom of God all prophets and deities are

in perfect harmony and meditate on the Shakti at all times. It will

take time for us SYs to rid ourselves of the conditionings and

ignorance that mars our spiritual ascend. That is why it is

essential that Her Divine Message be discussed in detail here before

the rest of humanity can grasp its essence too. As Shri Mataji

declared years ago, " That Time has come! "

 

Jai Shri Mataji,

 

 

jagbir

 

 

Shri Ganesha and Jesus Christ - symbols of the Self

by Stefania Dimitrova

 

In 1989 Dr. Vinod Ramrao Worlickar send a letter to his friends in

England, mentioning an unique discovery which didn't have such

importance to the physicists. The physicist Dr. Worlickar is a

Hindu, who respects all the gods of the Indian religion, as well

Jesus Christ, Buddha, Mohammed, Abraham, Mousses. The wide spiritual

spectrum, as well as the knowledge about the mystic symbols of the

great world religions enables him to interlink the exact physical

science with the philosophy of religion.

 

In 1986 after numerous attempts to make a computer model of the

carbon atom and its four bonds Dr. Worlikar discovered that the 2-

dimensional projection of the carbon atom is in fact a swastika

(mystical symbol in the Hindu religion). " This wasn't satisfactory

to me " writes Dr. Worlikar, " because I felt there were some other

secrets, hidden in the C-atom. To create exact C-atom, I used the

theory of the electron movement around the nucleus, representing one

of the bonds in spherical orbit and the whole model was moving, i.e.

I used the fourth dimension - the time. Then I clearly saw, looking

from right to left, an ideal swastika, from left to right - the OM

sign, from the bottom to the top - cross, and from the top to

bottom - Alpha and Omega. "

 

What does this all mean? Without a doubt the discovery of the

symbols of two world religions in the pattern of the main universal

atom is phenomenal. What else there might be in the essence of this

discovery?

 

From the point of view of the analytical psychology the projection

of swastika, OM, cross, Alpha and Omega over the C-atom looks like a

model of the evolution of human psyche.

 

To test this hypothesis, let us take a short trip in the world of

symbols and mythological images.

 

The swastika is a basic Hindu symbol, reflecting the primary

principle of the Creation, empersonalized by god Shri Ganesha.

According to the Hindu mythology Shri Ganesha is made out of mud and

doesn't know anybody else besides his Mother. Guarding in front of

Her door, he didn't recognised his own father Shiva and after a

fight he lost his head. When Shiva found out the terrible mistake he

gave him an elephant's head. It isn't strange that Ganesha doesn't

get a human head, because he doesn't think, doesn't plan. Just like

Pashu, i.e. entirely dependent from Shiva/Shakti, he lives under the

perfect blessings of his Mother.

 

Created before any of the Gods and their worlds, before the people

and the whole visible and invisible Universe, he is the primary

building material of the Creation - the innocence. What exactly does

an innocence mean? For the Indian mystical mind the innocence has

multiple faces. This notion has several levels of understanding:

 

a) infant purity and sincerity (Shri Ganesha is the everlasting

child in the Hindu religion);

b) satisfaction in any circumstances (one of the Shri Ganesha's

names is Lambodaraya, meaning completely satisfied);

c) seduction is unknown to him (his energy, Kundalini, is tied on

his stomach, i.e. excluded from any lust and greed);

d) he knows that he is the child of the Holy Mother (doesn't have

any other identification);

e) he lives only to adore and respect his Mother (Adi Shakti - the

female image of the Holy Spirit).

 

Shri Ganesha knows only his Mother and doesn't show any interest to

anybody else. When his father Shiva organised a world trip

competition, Ganesha's brother, Kartikeya, mounted up his cock and

took on a long trip around the Earth. Instead of following his

brother, Shri Ganesha said: " Nothing is greater than my Mother " and

mounted on his modest transportation - the mouse, made a circle

around the Holy Mother and thus received the award.

 

The innocence from the Indian point of view means dedication to the

only One -the Holy Mother, the primordial energy Adi Shakti, the

visible half of Shiva. The conscious experience of the innocence is

only human priority. For this reason Shri Ganesha becomes a source

of the illusive energy Maya, which covers the initial Divinity of

the world (res. of man) and creates false identifications and

representations.

 

We could draw an analogy between the illusory energy of Maya and the

concepts of the analytical psychology: shadow, animus, anima. The

majority of the scientific researches in the field of Hinduism and

Buddhism use the term " Maya " as a key point to the " salvation " .

Large part of these researches, however, briefly and superficially

treat Maya as an " energy of the visible world, that has to be

destroyed " .

 

The symbol of Shri Ganesha is the Swastika. The in-depth

interpretation of the direction of the swastika proves, that the

ancient Oriental mind gives positive answer to the existential

problem for the unity of the profane and sacred in the human life.

 

The studies of rituals in different nations the ethnography, the

ethnology and the cultural anthropology agree in the interpretation

of the ritual movement and symbols, turned to the left. Several

examples of the ritual practice from Indonesia to North Lapland show

that people had chosen the anticlockwise direction as " true " and

sacred. It means destruction of the material, profane world for the

only goal - to reach the sacred " mythical time " , in which the

patterns of the Genesis exist. The sacred " mythical time " doesn't

have period and space. This is the state of the Almighty Creator.

Such destructive movement backwards, towards the Beginning, however,

always means ignoring everything material, human and the whole

visible Universe. The world is considered as non-holy. In this sense

the swastika turned to the is considered as something destructive.

The movement of the ritual and its symbolic representation clockwise

means creation of the visible world, which by the cultural and

ethnographic conclusions is non-holy.

 

The swastika turned towards the right, has been respected in India

since the times of the ancient Vedas (3000 years BC) meaning well-

being and prosperity in mystical-religious and even common

interpretation.

 

The profane world, because of its non-holiness has no value and has

to be destroyed in order to be achieved the sacred one. The

controversy between the prosperity and the destruction of the

visible Universe, has been solved by the ancient Indian concept of

the monad Shiva/Shakti.

 

This is how Dr Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi explains the Creation of the

Universe according to Hindu mythology:

 

Prior to the Beginning there is only the ParaBrahma state,

undetermined and unidentified. It is followed by the split of the

existence of Paramashiva and Adi Shakti, to witness-Father and

creator-Mother. The separation takes the form of a love game -

Lassya. The God-Father releases his energy Shakti and this

separation is the Driving force of the creation. She (Shakti) is

getting closer trying to fuse again with He(Shiva) to become its

initial state. He is rejecting her again. This is a primary

movement, Adi Gati, the ellipse - Paradakshina and the zygote in the

middle - Pinda. This is the traditional figure of Lingam-Yoni in the

Hindu religion. Shakti emits a dynamic ring surrounding herself in

order to be witness of her own creation.

 

Paramashiva is the primordial witness of the game of Adi Shakti. She

separates in two : one is the creative part and the other is

witnessing power of the Mother. So we say that Paramashiva and Adi

Shakti are witnesses, the second having dynamic part from which

creates the world. The game of attraction and repulsion between both

of them (Adi Bindu) renders tension that deforms the ellipse more

and more. Then it opens in two semicircles and the Shakti's ring

forms the third semicircle. This is how Shiva-Shakti's first son,

Ganesha 's brother Kartikeya was born.

 

Kartikeya is personification of the pure knowledge of the Primordial

Truth- symbolised in the OM sign. During the time when ParmShiva and

Adi Shakti are repulsing each other, the fist sound OM is formed.

The sound A is expresses the desire mode, the sound U- creativity,

M - the knowledge of the creation. This way Shakti is separated into

three powers, three gunas, or three mothers: A - the power of

desire, Mahakali, who stands to the left of the Primary Creation; U -

the power of action, Mahasarasvati, standing to the right of the

Primary Creation , and M, Mahalakshmi, the power of knowledge that

is situated in the central canal of the Primary Creation and

respectively in all the other world creations. This is the reason

why Hindu religion expects the human incarnation of Trigunatmika

(the three gunnas), Buddhists anticipate Matreya (Ma-treya or the

three mothers), which in fact announces the end of the human

spiritual evolution, due to the appearance of the innocence in human

form , as well in human psyche.

 

The sign OM is the primary sound of the creation, the holy breath of

God, one of the names of Shri Ganesha, the primary word, Logos or

the primary verb. Here we have to recall John's Gospel: " In the

beginning there was Word, the Word was in God and God was the Word "

and the holy Amen. This is the sound which Adi Shakti used to create

the first element - the innocence (Shri Ganesha) and entirely filled

with it the Universe.

 

Ganesha is the beginning of our world. He was created first and he

gives the shapes, the qualities, the elements, the modes of time,

the gods, the people.

 

In its depth the concept of innocence, represented by Shri Ganesha,

means that the profane world is identical to the Divine. In this

sense, to reach the Divine excludes the destruction of the profane

world. The sacred is immanent of the Visible Universe. Or, as they

say in all ancient Indian scripts: " Atma (the Holy Spirit) can be

reached when we turn our sight inside us " , while Jesus says to his

disciples " God's Kingdom is in us " (Lucas 17:20-22).

 

Despite all this the swastika is Drawn in direction of destruction.

Destruction of what?

 

One of the Shri Ganesha's names is " Vignanasha " , meaning " He

destroys the obstacles of evolution " . In Ganesha Attharva Sheersha

is said: " You are the only Destructor of the obstacles. You are true

Brahman. You are the everlasting Atma (Self) " . Atma is the Holy

Spirit(God Almighty) from the subjective whereas Brahma - is the

Holy Spirit(God-Almighty) from the objective. They are identical and

have equal essence). In other words the Holy Spirit eliminates the

obstacles of his appearance.

 

In this sense the swastika, turned to the right, clockwise, could be

interpreted as development of the innocence, evolution of the

Divinity; whereas the swastika, turned to the left, anticlockwise,

as a removal of the barriers for the evolution of the Divinity.

 

Here we recall the conclusion of the great investigation of the

human history by the world-wide known philosopher Arnold Toynby.

According to him " The aim of the human effort, the goal of mankind's

civilisation is equal to the evolution of the sacred " .

 

In the " Devetashka " cave (near Lovetch, Bulgaria) are discovered the

oldest Drawings of swastikas, dated from 6000 years BC The fact that

the signs are Drawn in dyad, to the left and to the right at the

same time, indicates that the direction to the left is as sacred as

the direction to the right. The Neolithic man on the cross-roads of

Chaos and Cosmos led by his spiritual intuition draws the swastika

in dyad. Three thousand years before the ancient Indian Vedas, was

respected the symbol of the sacred in man.

 

In the dawn of European civilisation, man had a positive vision of

the world in which he lived. Where in its way the humankind has lost

its way and started opposing the Divine to the visible Universe,

secularising the " seen " and thus desiring the destruction of the

visible is a subject of another study.

 

We find here the meaning of this symbol as: self-developing of the

holiness, which destroys all obstacles on its way of accomplishing

the Divine plan.

 

Any other interpretation, based on the idea for the destruction of

the illusive energy " Maya " in order to find the true meaning of the

world, is in fact a formal acceptance of the Indian ontological

point of view, leading to direct or indirect pessimism.

 

Let us turn back to the C-atom, the main building element of the

Universe.

 

According to Dr. Worlikar the 2-dimensional projection of the C-

atom, seen from the right to the left, looks like swastika, whereas

seen from the left to the right - there is the OM sign.

 

On the top of the atomic model a cross could be seen, the symbol of

Jesus Christ. The hypothesis of the identity Ganesha-Jesus we can

test through the mythological data, the Bible, the epistemological

symbolic, the terimorphic symbolic, the arithmetic and geometric

symbolic and by all the symbols of the Self. We'll stop on just a

few characteristics, because a comparison pretending to be

comprehensive and profound, needs a special attention. Our problem

here is to present the hypothesis of the unique C-atom model,

reflecting basic symbols of the World Religions. Here are some data

which prove the identity of the symbols Ganesha-Jesus Christ.

 

1. Jesus is the only Son of the Holy Mother. Ganesha and Kartikeya

are two different aspects of the Holy Child(in Hinduism), because

both have name - " OM " (the sound of the first creation). The

conclusion is, that Jesus, Shri Ganesha/Kartikeya are different

aspects of the Holy Son.

 

2. The Holy Mother creates Shri Ganesha from mud and there was

immaculate conception of Jesus .

 

3. " I'll forgive anything against me, but nothing against the Holy

Spirit " - says Jesus. The Holy Spirit is his Divine identity, his

Holy Mother (Holy Spirit in Aramaic language is in female gender).

Just like Shri Ganesha, who stands against all the gods to protect

his Holy Mother, Jesus doesn't allow any sin towards the Holy Mother.

 

4. Ganesha and Jesus live in constant meditation on the Holy Spirit

(the Divine in the Creation).

 

5. " I am the Alpha and the Omega " - says Jesus. The Alpha is the

beginning of everything, whereas the Omega is the end of the

Creation. Ganesha as well is the Beginning, the End and the Living

of all the Universe. " All worlds were generated by You and supported

by You, they exist in You and You are the world " (Ganesha Attharva

Sheersha).

 

6. Jesus and Ganesha are symbols of the personality, surpassed the

human ego and superego. To remind, Ganesha has elephant's head,

deprived from ego and conditionings (superego), he is Pashu entirely

dependent by the blessings of his Mother. Through his suffering on

the Cross Jesus Christ symbolises the process of Selfrealization or

gradual differentiation from the collective and individual

unconscious. " Through the sufferings on the Cross the controversies

inside of him (Jesus) are becoming separated aware " - writes Jung In

this sense the crucifixion of Jesus, between the ego and the

superego of the people and moreover his resurrection beyond the ego

and the superego shows the way of mankind's salvation.

 

If we have to summarise the brief overview of the symbols, coded in

the C-atom: swastika, OM, cross, Alpha and Omega , they lead to

reality equal in essence, the reality of the Divine evolution. Their

meaning we can release after considering Shri Ganesha and Jesus

Christ as steps of human evolution.

 

Before solving this problem, let us make brief overview on the

understanding of the analytical psychology and Shiva Advayta's

philosophy for the " salvation " , which in its essence is the peak of

spiritual evolution in man.

 

In his famous book " Aion " Jung writes: " The traditional image of

Jesus gathers the patterns of an archetype, this of the Self meaning

an example, alive psychological fact When the archetype of the Self

dominates (including extreme contradiction in itself), the

inevitable psychological outcome is the conflict, the visible side

of which is the Christian symbol of crucifixion, i.e. the painful

state of non ressurected, where only the words " this is the end "

(consumatum est - John 19:30) puts an end of it.

 

To clarify, for us the " salvation " is a psychological state of the

mind which distinguishes the negative unconscious (in Jung's

terminology) from the Self. We would say, the differentiation from

the ego and the superego marks the end of the sense

of " helplessness " " non-ressurection " .

 

The " salvation " in its traditional sense, as an exit from the

harshness of this world, is just another conditional illusion, we

will attach the interpretation of the founder of philosophy -

ShivAdvayta Janeshvara " The ignorance and the salvation are two

similar concepts - writes Janeshvara in his book Amritaanubhava. -

The ignorance is expressed in the words " I am human (non-holy)

being " , and the salvation in " I am Brahma (God) " . Both though are

just rings of the rebirth chain or endless circle of the illusive

energy. In his body man lives as a human being, which suffers, in

his soul released from the body he lives like God, away from the

pain. Only the Pure Consciousness (sat-Chit-ananda) is beyond the

suffering and the salvation. It is lived in this world in a way

that " life is a natural bliss " . For the pure mind there is

no " beyond " , it is the consciousness in itself. In this sense the

salvation is a way: from Selfrealization (the personality, realized

the weight of the ego and the superego), through the metamorphosis

of the personality to the whole personality.

 

In his theory Jung reaches up to the problem of Selfrealization. He

doesn't continue further. He showed the Driving force of the

psychological evolution - the Self hidden in the unconscious, which

despite our will has faced up to the problem: " to see ourselves as

an whole personality " , i.e. with its all vices and dark side.

 

The structure of the C-atom shows us the next step of man's

psychological evolution: the " salvation " from the dark side.

 

I. Stage - Shri Ganesha-innate innocence

 

Ganesha is the innocence, living in constant worship of the Spirit.

In other words, Ganesha is the unrealised, potential innocence in

everything. Thanks to this, that man has consciousness, through

which he organises his way of living across the Chaos of

possibilities to become aware and to release the innocence in his

everyday life. Man has the possibility to approve its Divine

essence.

 

Shri Ganesha is source of the illusive energy " Maya " , hiding Atma

from the mind in the same way as the illusion mistakes the rope for

a snake. Or from the very Beginning the illusive energy comes

together with the pure mind and only the worshipers to the innocence

see Atma in everything.

 

II. Stage - selfdevelopment of the Creation from the Alpha to the

Omega

 

Sat-Chit-Ananda is the state of the Divine couple Shiva and Shakti

(the whole of the Holy Spirit and its energy as the sun and its

light). When the qualities " Sat " - truth, " Chit " -

attention, " Ananda " - joy are in one, then there is complete

silence, nothing is created and nothing is shown, the joy is fused

with the attention and the truth. Ananda is the joy inside, merging

in the creation. When the joy is moving towards the illusive

energy " Maya " , it goes to the unreal world " asat " . At this time the

creation is selfdevelopping, but joy- truth are overshadowed. For

this reason Christ says: " I am the light " , because he is the symbol

of the light = the truth = the joy. In its way to perfection the

light acts for the evolution from the inferior to the superior

living forms up to the man, who's joys (ananda) are the most

elevated, consciousness (chit) is controlled, the truth for the

Divine laws (sat) is understandable.

 

When he turns his attention (chit) towards the potential Divinity of

everything (sat), the man experiences the state of Creator. The

bliss, the joy (ananda) moves in man and the light of the Divine

(Jesus) enters man as expression of the Self. The man expresses the

essence of his primary pattern (Ganesha) as " Self liberated from the

weight (the cross) of the negative unconscious " (Jung), receiving

life as a " natural bliss " (Janeshvara)

 

III. Stage - Jesus Christ - conscious innocence

 

As the human mind is split between the individual and collective

unconscious it is urgent to release the personality from the

conditions, impeding the spontaneous conscious flow. Through love,

Jesus is the way for salvation (from the weight of negative

unconscious) to all the people. The weight of conditioning,

instincts, fears, aggression, arrogance (attributes of the negative

unconscious)projected on the Other, on the surroundings, political

and economic life, could be overcame through the Love, symbolised by

Jesus Christ. Pure Love is an implicit subordination, respect,

attention on the Divinity of the Other.

 

The bow of Zen-Buddhists to each other means: " I bow to Buddha in

you " . So the Pure Love (Christ in us), is a bow to the Divinity in

the Other, in every human being.

 

The forgiveness, which is the message of the Christ - is forgiveness

to the shadow, to the dark side of the humans. The dark side, the

Maya of human character is of no interest for those who have reached

their Divinity. There is a Far- East proverb " Only saints can

forgive. " When the attention is turned only to the Spirit of the

Other, to his Divine essence, then the shadow and the negative

unconscious which is projected in the thoughts and behavior has no

meaning. This is how for the Pure Love the negative unconscious, the

Maya is illusory and doesn't exist. This is the witness state where

the light of the Divinity embraces all the world. Janeshvara writes

for this state:

 

" Has the Sun ever seen darkness? So for him the talks about darkness

have no meaning "

 

The Sufi philosopher and mystic poet Ibn-al -Farid has expressed

this state of human mind beautifully in his poem:

 

" I am not God, I am just a son of Adam.

But I could reach my goal.

My Spirit is the all-pervading Spirit.

And the beauty of my soul is spread every where...

Oh, don't call me a wise man

It will be just an idle talk. "

 

The way to salvation through liberation from the shadow of the

unconscious (Jung), the cross (Christianity), Maya (Hinduism,

Buddhism) is shown by the Pure Love (Jesus).

 

The Pure Love towards everything alive means attention to the

potential holiness of everything and from here respect to the

innocence (Ganesha). According to Shiva Advaita: " From the point of

view of the sacred state of Atma the Observer is in one with the

seen. As in the false interpretation of the rope for a snake there

is only rope, thus the appearance of different objects in Atma there

is only Atma " .

 

In other words the Love of Jesus is an Observation of the Divine in

others and as the Observer is One with the Seen - the Pure Love is

experiencing our own Divinity. Christ is a symbol of the Self, which

in the mythology of ancient India is named: Atma, Ganesha, Son of

the Primordial Energy- Adi Shakti. So we could say that the

evolution of the human psychics is coded in the structure of the

main element of the Universe-C-atom. From Ganesha- the innate,

unconscious innocence; - though the selfdevelopment of the creation

(Alpha and Omega), via the illusive energy of the living (Maya),

which inflicts identifications with , roles, qualities and

conditions - until Jesus - the Pure Love that overcomes the negative

weight of the evolution, to appear as a state of a enlightened

innocence.

 

 

Attachment

 

GANESHA ATHARVA SHEERSHA

 

Amen. Salutations to Ganapati. You are verily Primordial principle.

Only You are the doer. Only You are the supporter of the earth. Only

You are the remover of obstacles. You are verily the Brahman. You

are verily the eternal Self.

From the front, from back-side, from north, from south, from above

and from below: protect me from all sides.

You are in the literature, You are in the Consciousness, You are the

Bliss, You are the Brahman.

You are the absolute Truth-Consciousness-Bliss (Sat-Chit-Ananda).

You are the knowledge.

You are the recognition. All the world has originated from You and

it is sustained by You; it ends in You and You manifests as the

world.

You are the earth, water, air and sky. You are the four parts of

speech(para, pashyati, madhhyama, vaikhari).

You are beyond the three Gunas(satwa, raja, tama). You are beyond

the three times(present, past, future). You are always present in us

at Mooladhara. You are within the three powers(Mahalakshmi,

Mahasaraswati, Mahakali). Yogis always meditate upon You. You are

Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra (Shiva), Indra, Agni, Vayu, the Sun, the Moon

and the three Lokas(terrestrial, celestial and atmospheric).

Uttering Gana, followed first by Varna (syllable), then by the nasal

sound. Your form is supporting the half moon and stars. G (Gakar) is

the first form, A (Akar) is the middle form and the nasal sound is

the last form. The Bindu is on the top. The sound, thus made, may be

meditated on for the knowledge of all Vedas. It is Ganesha Vidya. We

want to have the knowledge of the God with one tusk. we meditate

upon the God with the curled up trunk. May He stimulate our

intellect.

He has one tusk, four arms and is holding a noose and goad. With one

hand He is blessing. He has a mouse as vehicle. he is red in

complexion, has a big belly and ears like winnowing fans. He wears

red clothes and smears red coloured fragrant paste on His body.

He is worshipped with red flowers. He is the God who has compassion

for His devotees and is said to be the cause of the world.

He manifests before the creation, from supreme Prakriti and Purusha.

He, the greatest of all yogis, is eternally worshipped by the Yogis.

Obeisance to the lord of assemblance (Vrata-pati). Obeisance to the

Lord of ganas(Gana-pati).

Obeisance to the master of Cupid. Obeisance the big bellied God; the

remover of obstacles; the Son of Shiva.

 

Stefania Dimitrova