Lord Ganesha – the elephant God is loved and adored by one and all. From his favorite modaks to His mouse, each and everything has a peculiar significance. Are you aware of what Lord Ganesha symbolizes? If not, read along to know more about your beloved God.
Click here to buy a beautiful Lord Ganesha t-light.
GANESHA’S LONG TRUNK
Represents discrimination. The elephant’s trunk is a remarkable instrument. It is a tool which can uproot a tree or pick a straw from a haystack. It has the strength to pull heavy loads as well as the sensitivity to pick out the smallest of objects. In the same way, an evolved intellect can use its discrimination fully to solve the gross problems of the outer world as well as effectively employ its discrimination in the sublet realms on the inner personality layers.
GANESHA’S POT BELLY & LARGE MOUTH
These symbolize the ability to digest all the knowledge that has been gained. We may gather various kinds of knowledge and know certain things very well – what we should, and should not do, but if that knowledge is not digested well, our actions do not match our knowledge.
Buy beautiful copper vessels online to serve Lord Ganesha.
GANESHA’S BIG EARS
For listening. We spend a lot of time, talking and not listening. Large ears are for listening and gathering of knowledge. With which we can then discriminate. Listening is an art. With careful listening, we can gather valuable information. When we listen well, we learn well. If we learn well, we think well. If we think well, we act well. If we act well, we live well.
GANESHA’S TUSKS
Discriminative powers only function when there are two factors to discriminate between: Ganesha’s tusks represent these two factors. The trunk growing down between them represents the discriminative power. We distinguish between good and evil and between all other dualities and come to our judgments and conclusions in life.
Worship Ganesha in this pure copper Puja Thali.
GANESHA’S BROKEN TEETH OR BROKEN TUSK
The broken tusk indicates that a real Vedantic student of subjective experience is one who has gone beyond the pairs of opposites, or dualities and knows what is right and does exactly that.
GANESHA’S BIG HEAD
A big head represents our ability to think and to analyze. It is important to gather all the information and then to think about what we have attained – contemplate, and analyze it through.
Wish to buy Ganesha t-shirts? Click here.
GANESHA’S FOUR HANDS
Ganesha has four hands. The first is holding an axe with this Ganesha cuts off all our attachments. The second, holding a rope ties all these attachments together preventing them from running free. In his third hand, he holds a sweet – a pure reward for renouncing these attachments. With his fourth hand, Ganesha gives us Diksha-blesses us and protects us from all obstacles.
GANESHA’S LITTLE MOUSE
At the side of Ganesha, a mouse is sitting in the midst of beautiful fragrant, ready-made food, but we find that the devout mouse is sitting looking up at the Lord, shivering with anticipation, but NOT daring to touch anything without His command. Now and then the Lord allows the mouse to eat. This mouse is our desiring mind. A mouse is a small animal with tiny teeth, and yet can bring disaster in a barn full of grains, as it can continuously nibble at the grain. Similarly, there is a ‘mouse’ in all of us – “our desires.” They can eat away even a mountain of goodness within in us.
Order adorable moulded Ganesha magnets and Ganesha keychains online.
GANESHA TEACHES US
Listen to the things around you well, keep your ears open and gather all the information. Feed this into your mind analyze and discriminate between right and wrong. Digest what is good and make it part of you, discard what is not. Success is yours if you keep working at it.
Reference: Chinmayam (Issue 1)
3 Comments Add yours