He is present in each and every puja or ritual and new or important venture that we undertake. You will see His idols and pictures in corporate offices, shops, and cars. This is because as per the Hindu culture, praying to Lord Ganesha brings luck, success, and prosperity. On Ganesh Chaturthi, devotees worship clay models of Lord Ganesha. During other festivals, they make small models with haldi or turmeric powder that they worship before starting a puja.
So, whether they are performing Lakshmi puja or Saraswati puja , they first invoke Lord Ganesha. It is believed that any obstacle that may present itself during the performance of the puja , or execution of any endeavor will be successfully overcome by doing so.
As per the Hindu scriptures, divinity resides within us. So, we make clay models of the lord and worship them by offering fruits, flowers, and water to express gratitude. These are, actually, symbols of our own prana or energy force. So, when we worship the idol, we honor our own inner spirit - for the strength and vigor that it gives us to live well. Once the puja is done, we request the lord to return to our heart.
Clay models are a means that offer form to the formless - to make the abstract physical. Through sadhana and meditation, understanding the formless becomes more effortless. Upset by this act, Goddess Parvati threatened to destroy the world if her son was not brought back to life. Equally intriguing is our tradition of healing and health. Thousands of years ago, our ancient sages unlocked techniques and wisdom to maintain holistic health.
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From this site :. In your body I am innocence, wisdom and spontaneity. I am the sanctity of the marriage union and the blessing of saintly children. When Kundalini awakens My presence in you, you regain your lost innocence. She overcomes all of His enemies outside, as well as those within your being. I am the Everlasting Child and the sparkles of My innocence radiate the universe in a constant flow of bliss. He is the embodiment of innocence, purity, and chastity in creation.
This might be one of reason for people worshipping lord Ganesha before they start off with marriage proceedings, and on marriage invitation cards.
As well as keep idols of lord Ganesha in their cars, home entrances, etc. Ramdas swami Manache shlok 1 : Ramdas swami also states that Shri Ganesha is stays in Muladhar chakra of ones body, where kundalini shakti sleeps here, waiting to be aroused with blessings of lord Ganesha and it reaches up to Brahman the absolute. Ganadhish jo ish sarwa gunancha Mularambh arambh to nirgunacha Namu sharada mul chatwar wacha Gamu panth aanat ya raghawacha 1.
Meaning :Lets prey the god Ganapati, who is the leader of all gana ganadhish , who is the lord of serveral devine virtues uttam gun , who is starting element of non-physical existance nirgun.
We pray to lord Ganapati to seek success in our task of setting us on to a life of betterment. We then pray Maa Saraswati, who is the pioneer energy to the universe for its operation which is in the form of four sound levels chatwar wacha : para, pashyanti, madhyma and waikhari. With the prayer to Ganadhish and Sharada after understanding their forms : knowledge and energy respectively.
We seek their grace aashirwad to enable us go by the ideal life as demonstrated by lord Ram in his avataar. We wish to walk our life by the path panth as shown by Lord Ram raghav and endlessly aanant.
Anything we do has to fall under one of the two categories: material or spiritual. As we know Lord Ganesha rules the 'Muladhara chakra' of our body.
Lord Ganesha is said to control both these worlds. He is the one who gives the material enjoyments in this world and He is the one who liberates us from the endless cycle of birth and death. Our material life as well as our spiritual journey starts from the 'Muladhara chakra' which is controlled by Lord Ganesha. It is He who informs Kundalini when it is time to awaken and to reach nirgun nirakar swarup brahman. Hence, to complete our life cycle without any obstacles, we need the blessings of Lord Ganesha.
When Lord Ganesha brought back to life after his head was chopped off by Lord Shiva, then Goddess Parvati adored him and declared that he will be worshipped first. Then adoring her son, the goddess Girija, kissed his face, bestowing him with several boons. You are quite graceful. You are successful in all your missions. You would be adored first of all the gods and those who would do so would always remain comfortable.
Then I myself, besides Siva and Visnu, bestowed on him the best of boons, and Said to him collectively. AS we three are considered to be the best and most adorable among the gods, similarly, the leader of the ganas i. He would be adored first and then the people would adore us. In case the people adoring us and would not adore Ganesa, their adoration would be infructuous.
There is no doubt about it. Thereafter Visnu adored him. Every year on Ganesh Chaturthi after the puja we read a story, as a part of the ritual. The story I heard goes like this. Shiva and Parvati put a race between their children Ganesh and Kartikeya. The race was to go around the world thrice and bath in all sacred rivers. The winner would be made head to all ganas. Kartikeya started on his mount the peacock , but Ganesh knew he would not win with his mount the mouse.
So he instead circled his parents thrice and earned the equal effect of circling the world thrice. So Ganesh won and he was made head of all ganas Ganapati , as a reward for his intelligence he was also made head of all obstacles Vigneshwara. Ganapaty has been given the status of Prathama Pujaya or first to be worshiped" by Lord Shiva as per one account and Lord Brahma as per another.
The first story is from this chapter of Linga Purana and is as follows:. That was the opportune time when Indra and Devas accompanied by Brahma approached Maha Deva when Dharma and Nyaaya Virtue and Justice were at the lowest ebb and the evils perpetrated by Daitya-Danava-Rakshasas were abysmal. There were no barriers Vighnas to immorality and wickedness and the malevolent forces on Earth had a free play enabled by extremities of Tamasika and Rajasika Gunas.
Rishis felt that besides obstructing such rampant free play of Evil, there should also indeed be a Facilitator of Good Deeds viz. Avighna as opposed to Vighna.
Thus Devas requested that a Personification viz. Vighnesha be created who would give impediments to the Evil-doers and Facilities to Seekers of Good Deeds like women folk to grant good sons, humans to be blessed with Karya Siddhi or Fulfilment of Good Deeds.
As Devas made the above Stuti, Pinakapaani was extremely delighted and assured that he would neither allow any obstruction to Deva Karyas to be caused by any Daitya-Danava and such other mischievous forces nor encourage the success of any evil against virtue. Shiva emphasised to Ganesha that any Puja to him, Vishnu or Brahma or other Devatas or Devis must be preceded by worhip to Ganesha first not only to assure success of the main Puja but also supplement the fulfillment of the desires for which the main puja was performed.
This is relevant to all Varnas of Brahmana-Kshatriya-Vaishya and others too. Thus any worship, or Vrata, or Sacred and Religious Deed like Yagnas, Daanaas, Vivaahas, Upanayanas, Vidyaarambhas, house constructions, or for that matter any and every task seeking propitiousness shoud start with Ganesha Puja in Hindu Dharma. Another account is from the Birth of Gajanana, Priority Invocation and adoration on Chaturthi chapter of the Varaha Purana and which is as below:.
Sense of sky is nothing but sound. All the other things in universe appeared later from the sound. Thus in the beginning of this process, there was nothing but sound.
Resonating sound is thus the primitive constituent of universe. This universal form of resonance when meets the ear, it is heard as Omkar. Shri Ganpatya Atharvasheersh says that Ganapati is the manifested appearance of Omkar. Such as recitation of Omkar is a must in the beginning of all the auspicious occasions and installation of idols.
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