Ganesha is the famous Elephant God. For Ages, we celebrate Ganesha in India and around as a Hindu festival. This Ganesha energy is energy for knowledge, wisdom, health, wealth, and prosperity. Exactly what humans are looking for.
While there are multiple ways of looking at Ganesha as a deity, and energy descending, the external supportive energy and all that, we forget that this source is also within us and can help us evolve humans.
Yes, I meant human evolution is possible because of this energy in every being, including humans.
And If you are a human, you should pay close attention now irrespective of your religion. Just be open and read on.
Long before our deities even existed in physical idol forms, people worshiped nature in the form of trees, mountains, rivers, animals, humans, and rocks. No forms were given as such. For example, in India, the snake is worshiped for its highly perceptive nature. The Yazhi, which is an ancient animal that combined of Lion’s head and horse’s body was worshiped for its unbeatable strength. So, when we notice, it’s the nature of something or someone that we respect and bow down to.
When we salute, bow, and join arms to say namaskaram or Namaste, it’s the nature of the human or the soul that we bow down to.
Let me share a small awakening experience with you today before I talk about Ganesha’s energy and how to harness that which is within.
It was April 2003, I was on the roads of a busy street in Gadhipuram, Coimbatore, a town in Tamil Nadu, India, walking with my mother. We came there for shopping and it was so hot and sunny that day and people were crowded in all the juice stalls. We headed there and looking at the crowd, we changed our mind to head to a hotel instead.
Something drew my attention to this tall man drinking mango juice. I watched him drink and suddenly, he collapsed. Just before we took a diversion to the hotel across the street. The signals were on for us to cross, so mom pulled my hand to cross. But I couldn’t stop thinking if this man just fainted or was dead.
Someone shouted from inside the juice shop, “Oh God, this man is dead I think, let’s put it aside and clear the road first.” I heard this while we almost crossed the road and reached the hotel.
I couldn’t stop thinking about the dialogue this man said “Let’s put it aside”. This man who could have been rich, respectable, or loved by someone, or feared by some others, once he is dead, would be called “It” and not “him” anymore
This was the moment I couldn’t stop digesting. What is it that gets respect, who are we respecting, what was there which is not there now? While I was thinking this, I realized it was our “breath”.
What we refer to as soul is nothing but our breath in our experience. Once gone, respect is gone and we become merely corpses.
That moment something happened, I literally saw every human as light without bodies. I laughed aloud as I saw all these lights as gods (so I perceive) eating vada, drinking coffee ordering dosa, serving food, and billing another light. It amazed me when I saw all the same light in different bodies.
Why should one light be more powerful than another or so be thought?
Every human transforms the moment we realize that all are the same light from the same source, but our consciousness and intent and decisions that we take in our lives without fear and regrets and guilt, make the difference.
If someone really thinks beyond me and mine, this person is celebrated and worshiped. Others don’t even earn their respect.
Ganesha is the primordial energy that can bring this transformation in anyone if one intends. To grow into a superhuman, there needs to be something basic that has to change. And this change can be brought to you by Ganesha energy.
Culturally imbibed that you call Ganesha before you do anything, is because you are doing something auspicious to transform lives, and Ganesha can trigger and hit the launch for the rocket to reach heights required for success.
Hope this helped you understand why Ganesha is an energy that every human should pay attention to and the external situation is also going to be supportive during Ganesh Chaturti.
Happy Ganesh Chaturti to All! May this period be a time of prosperity and higher awakening.