The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 63 : Lord Ganesha - 3

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 63 🌹

🌴 Lord Ganesha - 3 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. Sound and Symbolism - 2 🌻

The sound of Ganesha causes profound transformations in us. He rearranges the four-petalled lotus of the base centre and also gives order to our life. 

This order generates magnetism in us; life expands and becomes splendorous. Before beginning an important activity, at first the blessing of Ganesha is sought to conduct the work in harmony and to finish it in poise. 

The symbols, mantras and rituals related to Ganesha help in this regard.

His symbol is the triangle within the circle with a point in the centre. In a more illustrative form it is the head of the elephant. 

When we think of Ganesha, we can visualise our own head functioning as an elephant head. 

We can imagine that, by invoking Ganesha, he descends into our head with love and wisdom, so that the day can progress without disturbances. Love and wisdom never create impediments.

We can also visualise the form of our head, the ears and the spinal column in a radiant light as the head and the trunk of an elephant. From the tip of the trunk to the head of the elephant there is happening of a humming sound. 

This sound is called Hastinada, the voice of the elephant. It is self-born when emanating from the Absolute and it is also called OM, the sound of silence. 

We contemplate on it in the base centre. From there it emerges and moves upwards through all the etheric centres clearing the blockages in our body. 

The sound then reaches the Ajna, and then there is the illumination. We can visualise our head as a globe of light and our ears as big etheric ears. 

The globe of light is standing on a column of light, the spinal column; a feeble sound emerges from the base of our spinal column and moves up like a serpent.

The Eastern Scriptures contain profound symbolic stories about Ganesha. Thus, he was immaculately conceived by the World Mother, Parvathi. 

She prepared a substance and gave it the form of a 5 year old boy, installed vital power and bestowed the power of which she is presiding. Thus, the boy knew the Mother but not yet Shiva, the Father. 

When Shiva returned home, to Kailash, the boy refused him entry. Shiva smiled, for he saw that the boy was a creation of Parvathi and carried her power in him. 

He told the boy that he is the Master of the house and that he wants to enter. But the boy remained obstinate. He was the son of the Mother but he lacked the knowledge of the Father, the Supreme Self, the pure and absolute existence. 

Shiva therefore removed the boy’s head by his most powerful weapon, the Trident (the Rod of Initiation) and replaced it with the head of an elephant, the head of wisdom. 

This way the boy was initiated into the I AM consciousness and realised THAT, the Brahman. 

The symbol of Ganesha has the wisdom of the Most High, the power of Nature and the skill of action. It is therefore a complete symbol for contemplation.

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Sources:Master K.P. Kumar: Jupiter. The Path of Expansion / notes from seminars.

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