OM SRI GANESHAAYA NAMAHA

Symbolism of Ganesha.

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Symbolism of Ganesha.

Ganesha in Japan.

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Ganesha in Japan.

Ganesha worshipped as Kangiten in Japan.

Ganesha in Indonesia.

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Ganesha in Indonesia.

Ganesha worshipped by all religions in India as The Removal of Obstacles pictured on a 20000 Rupiah note of Indonesia which is the world's largest Muslim country.

108 Names of Ganesha

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OM GANESHWARAI NAMAH
OM GANKRIDYA NAMAH
OM GANNATHAYA NAMAH
OM GANADHIPAYA NAMAH
OM EKDRISHTAYA NAMAH
OM VAKRATUNDAYA NAMAH
OM GAJVAKRAYA NAMAH
OM MAHODARAYA NAMAH
OM LAMODARAYA NAMAH
OM DHUMRAVARANAYA NAMAH
OM VIKTAYA NAMAH
OM VIGHNANAYAKAYA NAMAH
OM SUMUKHAYA NAMAH
OM DUMU NAMAH
OM BUDDHAYA NAMAH
OM VIGHNARAJAYA NAMAH
OM GAJANAYA NAMAH
OM BHIMAYA NAMAH
OM PRAMODAYA NAMAH
OM AANODAYA NAMAH
OM SURAN NANDAYA NAMAH
OM MOHATKATAYA NAMAH
OM HAYRAMBHAYA NAMAH
OM SHAMBARAYA NAMAH
OM SHAMBHAVEY NAMAH
OM LAMBAKARNAYA NAMAH
OM MAHABALAYA NAMAH
OM NANDANAYA NAMAH
OM ALAMPATAYA NAMAH
OM ABHIRVEY NAMAH
OM MEGHNADAYA NAMAH
OM GANGAJAYA NAMAH
OM VINAYKAYA NAMAH
OM VIRUPAKSHAYA NAMAH
OM DHIRSHURAYA NAMAH
OM VARPRADAYA NAMAH
OM MAHA GANPATYE NAMAH
OM BUDDHIPRIYAYA NAMAH
OM SHIPRA PRASADNAYA NAMAH
OM RUDRA PRIYAYA NAMAH
OM GANADHYAKSHAYA NAMAH
OM UMA PUTRAYA NAMAH
OM AAGHNASHAYA NAMAH
OM KUMAR GURVE NAMAH
OM EESHAN PUTRAYA NAMAH
OM MUSHAK VAHANAYA NAMAH
OM SIDDHI PRIYAYA NAMAH
OM SIDDHA VINAYAKAYA NAMAH
OM SIDDHAYA NAMAH
OM AVIGHAYA NAMAH
OM TUMBARVE NAMAH
OM SIMHAVANAYA NAMAH
OM MOHINI PRIYAYA NAMAH
OM KATAGKANTAYA NAMAH
OM RAJ PUTRAYA NAMAH
OM SHAALKAYA NAMAH
OM SAMMITAYA NAMAH
OM AMITAYA NAMAH
OM KUSHMA MANDSAMSAMBHOOTHYE NAMAH
OM DURJAYA NAMAH
OM DHURJAYA NAMAH
OM JAYAYA NAMAH
OM BHOOPATYE NAMAH
OM BHOOVANPATYE NAMAH
OM AVYAYA NAMAH
OM VISHWAKATRE NAMAH
OM VISHWA MUKHAYA NAMAH
OM VISHWA RUPAYA NAMAH
OM NIDHYE NAMAH
OM GHRUNYE NAMAH
OM KRAYE NAMAH
OM KAVINA MRUSHBHAYA NAMAH
OM BHRAMANAYA NAMAH
OM BHRAMANASPATYE NAMAH
OM JYESHTA RAJAYA NAMAH
OM NIDDHI PRIYA PATI PRIYAYA NAMAH
OM SURYA MANDAL MADHYA GAYAY NAMAH
OM KARAHATIDHAVSTA SINDHU SALILAYA NAMAH
OM PUSHDANTABHIDE NAMAH
OM UMANGKELIKUTUKINE NAMAH
OM MUKTIDAYA NAMAH
OM KUKPALNAYA NAMAH
OM KIRITINE NAMAH
OM KUNDALINE NAMAH
OM HARINE NAMAH
OM VANMALINE NAMAH
OM MANOMAYAY NAMAH
OM VYUUKHYAHATYDTYATSHRIYE NAMAH
OM PADAHATIJITSHITYE NAMAH
OM SADHYOJAATSVARNAMUJYAMEKILINE NAMAH
OM DUDIRMITHRITE NAMAH
OM DUSWAPNAHRITE NAMAH
OM PRASHANAYA NAMAH
OM GUNINE NAMAH
OM NAADPRATITHISTAYA NAMAH
OM SURUPAYA NAMAH
OM SARVANETRADHIVASAYA NAMAH
OM VIVASANA SHRAVAYA NAMAH
OM PITAMBARAYA NAMAH
OM KHANDARDAYA NAMAH
OM KHANDENDUKRUTSHEKHARYA NAMAH
OM CHITRANGDASHYAMDASHNAYA NAMAH
OM BHAALCHANDRAYA NAMAH
OM CHATURBHURJAYA NAMAH
OM YOGADHIPAYA NAMAH
OM TARKSTAYA NAMAH
OM PURSHAYA NAMAH
OM GAJKARNAKAYA NAMAH

Lord of Categories

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Lord of Categories

Ganapati or Genesha, the Lord of Categories: All that can be counted or comprehended is a category (gana). The principle of all the classifications through which the relations between different orders of things, between the macrocosm and the microcosm, can be understood is called the lord-of-categories (Ganapati).

I bow to you, lord of categories. You alone are the visible form of the principle. You alone are the creator, you alone are the sustainer, you alone are the destroyer, you alone are unmistakably the Principle-of-All (Brahma), the true Self.

Ganesha or Ganapati is an extremely popular God in India. He is called Vighneshvara or Vighnaharta, the Lord of and destroyer of obstacles. People mostly worship Him asking for siddhi, success in undertakings, and buddhi, intelligence. He is worshipped before any venture is started. He is also the God of education, knowledge and wisdom, literature, and the fine arts.

Ganesha is also one of the five Gods the worship of whom was popularised by Adi Shankaracharya; the other four are Vishnu, Shiva, Devi and Surya. The worship of these five deities is called the pancAyatana pUjA. In some cases, a sixth God, Skanda is also worshipped.

The Ganapati Upanisad

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Auspiciousness to those who hear ---- thus the Shanti.
1 Om Gam.(A) I bow to Ganapati.

2 You clearly are the tattva(B). You alone are the creator. You alone are the maintainer. You alone are the destroyer.(C) Of all this you certainly are Brahman.(D) You plainly are the essence.

3. Always I speak amrta(E). The truth I speak.

4. Protect me. Protect the speakers. Protect the hearers. Protect the givers.
Protect the holders. Protect the disciple that repeats. Protect that in the
east. Protect that in the south. Protect that in the west. Protect that in the
north. Protect that above. Protect that below. Everywhere protect! Protect me everywhere!

5. You are speech. You are consciousness. You are bliss. You are Brahma.
You are being-consciousness-bliss. You are the non-dual. You are plainly
Brahma. You are knowledge. You are intelligence.

6. You create all this world. You maintain all this world. All this world is seen in you.
You are earth, water, air, fire, aether You are beyond the four measures of speech. You are beyond the three gunas. You are beyond the three bodies. You are beyond the three times. You are always situated in the muladhara(F). You are the being of the three Shaktis(G) . You are always meditated on by yogins. You are Brahma, you are Vishnu, you
are Rudra, you are Agni, you are Vayu, you are the sun, you are the moon, you are Brahma, bhur-bhuvah-svar(H).

7 Ga is the first syllable, after that the first letter, beyond that m, then
the half-moon all together. Joined with m, this is the mantra form.

8 The letter ga is the first form, letter a the middle form, m the last form.
bindu the higher form, nada the joining together, samhita the junction.
This is the vidya of Lord Ganesa.

9 Ganaka is the seer, nricad-gayatri the metre, Sri Mahaganapati the devata. Om ganapataye namah(I).

10 Let us think of the one-toothed, let us meditate on the crooked trunk,
may that tusk direct us.

11. One tusk, four arms, carrying noose and goad, with his hands dispelling
fear and granting boons, with a mouse as his banner.

12. Red, with a big belly, with ears like winnowing baskets, wearing red,
with limbs smeared with red scent, truly worshipped with red flowers.

13. To the devoted a merciful deva, the maker of the world, the prime
cause, who at the beginning of creation was greater than nature and man.

14. He who always meditates thus is a yogin above yogins.

15. Hail to the lord of vows, hail to Ganapati, hail to the first lord, hail
unto you, to the big-bellied, one-tusked, obstacle-destroyer, the son of
Siva, to the boon-giver, hail, hail!

16. He who studies this atharva(J) text moves towards BrahmË. He is
always blissful. He is not bound by any obstacles. He is liberated from
the five greater and the five lesser sins. Evening meditation destroys the
unmeritorious actions of the night. At both evening and morning he is
liberated from the bad and he attains dharma, artha, kama and moksa(K).

17. This atharva text should not be given to those not pupils. If from
delusion a person so gives, he is a bad person.

18. He who wants something may accomplish it by 1,000 recitations of
this. He who sprinkles Ganapati with this becomes eloquent. He who
recites this on a fourth day becomes a knower of vidya. This is an artharva
saying: ‘‘He who moves towards Brahmavidya is never afraid.’’ He who
worships with fried grains becomes famous and becomes intelligent. He
who worships with sweet-meat (modaka) gains the desired fruit. He who
worships with samit and ghee by him all is attained, all is gained by him.
He who makes eight brahmanas understand this becomes like the sun’s
rays. In a solar eclipse, in a great river, or in front of an image having
recited (this) he gets accomplished in the mantra. He becomes liberated
from great obstacles. He is freed from great misfortunes.

A) Om Gam -- The root or bija mantra of the deva.
B) Tattva -- In this case the word tattva means all and everything.
C) Creator, Maintainer & Destroyer -- These are the three gunas in their triple form.
D) Brahman -- The Absolute.
E) Amarta -- Literally, the imperishable.
F) Muladhara -- The base cakra in the human body.
G) Three Shaktis -- Of action, will and knowledge.
H) bhur-bhuvah-svar -- The three worlds.
I) Om ganapataye namah -- The extended mantra of the deva.
J) Atharva -- The atharva is the fourth and heterodox veda.
K) Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksa -- The four aims of mankind: right thinking, acquistion of wealth, sexuality and liberation.