What is the significance of ganesha

Yellow symbolizes purity, peace, auspiciousness, sense control, and truthfulness. Red symbolizes the activity in the world. Thus an individual should perform all duties in the world, with purity, peace, and truthfulness. These are held together by the cosmic energy kundalini symbolized by the huge snake around him.

The snake that runs round his waist represents energy in all forms. The big belly signifies that a person should face all pleasant and unpleasant experiences during his life span with patience and calmness. Ganesh Chaturthi is a celebration of The Lord who controls the universe. The wandering mouse also signifies the wavering human mind.

As Lord Ganesh elephant head controls the mouse, we must also learn to control our mind with intellect. In other words, the wise are those who always keep an open mind. This trunk visually depicts a well-developed intellect that arises out of wisdom, the elephant head. Our intellect is of two kinds, gross and subtle.

The gross intellect is used to discriminate between pairs of opposites in the world; black and white, hard and soft, easy and difficult. The subtle intellect, on the other hand, discriminates between right and wrong; permanent and impermanent and is colloquially called the conscience.

In a person who has realised the Self, this intellect is extremely well-developed; both gross and subtle. Such people have clarity of thinking and a clear sense of right and wrong. At a relative level, even people who have made progress on the spiritual path experience this. Choices become clear and life becomes a lot simpler. Without clarity of thought, our worldview is bound to be confused and coloured by our own prejudices and preconceptions.

One of the key attributes of people who are Self-Realised is that they rise above their likes and dislikes and the pairs of opposites that world presents before them.

Established in the permanent Divinity, they remain unperturbed by what the world has to offer; the joys and sorrows, the victories and losses. Combat Corona. Search programs. What are you looking for? Find Courses. Search Courses By Location.

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Though Ganesha is worshiped as the elephant-headed God , the form swaroop is just to bring out the formless parabrahma roopa. He is, 'Ajam Nirvikalpam Niraakaaramekam. Ganesha is the same energy which is the reason for this universe. It is the energy from which everything manifests and into which everything will dissolve.

The Story of Lord Ganesha's Birth. We must be able to detect dangers. The sense of smell is one of our most powerful connections to the physical world. The Big stomach indicates digesting all good and bad events in life. Our life is a pile of good things and bad things.

The big stomach of Ganesha teaches us to absorb all that is good, bad or ugly. Hostility, disappointments, hardships and resentment — we have to digest them to move on to better pasture of life. One cannot expect only taking from others but giving is equally important. While there is grace in giving there is grace in receiving too.

The left hand with modak means to receive good one should be ready to receive at the same time wish well of others. The right hand is raised to bless. Blessing is a very important part of our faith. The right hand at the back holds an axe; it symbolizes retrenchment. One should know when to cut, economize, reduce and retreat. The noose in the left hand at the back denotes importance of capturing good things.

It indicates that one has to capture things that are helpful to our advantage. His Small Feet support his large body, leaves him with no choice but to be firmly grounded to avoid tumbling or falling. In our fast paced lives we need to be mentally and emotionally stable; worthily sensible, realistic and unpretentious. We get bogged down with multi tasking, stressful relationships, finances, jobs, social image, our prestige etc, etc.

The Two Tusks of the Lord teach us that that little bit of sacrifices are worth it in life. The broken tusk has a story which goes like this: when Sage Ved Vyasa came up with the idea of writing Mahabharatha, he looked around for someone who would write down the words even as he recited them. He approached Lord Ganesha and asked him if he would do so. Lord Ganesha readily agreed. The elephant headed God broke one of his tusks to write Mahabharata and used it as a pen.

To do good work, at times we need little sacrifices. The other message is that one must conquer emotions with wisdom to attain perfection.

Mouse as his vehicle — Lord Ganesha with a huge body has a small mouse for his vehicle. It shows that Lord Ganesha has no ego. The mouse can squeeze in t hrough the smallest space and can even help him commute during the night. Small is big. Ganesha teaches us to respect small objects, small people in our lives. He teaches us to leave aside burden of our big egos and to ride on a right path in life. We need to become small, shed our ego weight, be attentive to understand the advantages, which others have overlooked.