Legend has it that Parvathi created Ganesha out of the sandalwood dough that she used for her bath and breathed life into him. Letting him stand guard at the door she went to have her bath. When her husband, Shiva returned, the child who had never seen him stopped him. Shiva severed the head of the child and entered his house. Parvathi, learning that her son was dead, was distraught and asked Shiva to revive him. Shiva cut off the head of an elephant and fixed it on the body of Ganesha.
IMPORTANCE OF GANESH
Ganesh is an important lord, god in Indian (Hindu) religion. He is very important deity and every body is afraid of him and worships him. He has many names out of which the following names are well known, Ganesh, ganesha, vignesh, Vinayaka, ganapathi, vigneswara. He has lot of significance in mysticism and self-realization. He is the lord of all types of vighnas that means he is the controller of all hurdles, upsets, and problems for every effort. He has to be prayed for pacifying all types of hurdles, troubles for any work. By default, every proposal of a man meets a failure, trouble. That's why we hear man proposes God disposes. So, for every work, for every auspicious work people used to pray for Vinayaka, lord of all troubles. All religious activities would start only after praying to Lord Ganesha. Ganesh is son of Lord Siva and Parvathi. He is not born to any body, Parvathi made his idol and Lord Shiva gave life to him. Ganesha will have an elephant face. Because his original human face was chopped off, beheaded by Lord Shiva with his trident but later he brought an elephant head and joined back and gave back lives. He passed a test put by His parents and won the supremacy over the troubles, ganas, and hurdles. In yoga sastra, it is mentioned that he is the lord of muladhara chakra, the first starting chakra for yoga meditation and kundalini practice. When you cross all the six chakras, only a person gets self-realization and divine powers. This practice is called kundalini. A person can do any thing when his kundalini energy awakes. Ganesh, Vinayaka is the Lord of the first gate for this awakening point. If we arise this chakra itself, we get lot of powers. Such important diety is Lord Ganesha, Vinayaka. This month on 27th is the birthday of Ganesha and all Hindus perform this festival and seek his blessings. Whenever your efforts are failing, or many hurdles are coming one after another for your efforts in business, employment, education know that Ganesh has to be pleased or His blessings would be useful. Though vaishnavites, who worship Lord Vishnu, never worship Siva or his family, they definitely pray Lord Ganesha. The simple mantra for worshipping Lord Ganesha is: Om gam ganeshaya Nemaha.
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