with Sri Ganesh

My inner choice had been all along to turn to the Lord, to the Supreme, through the figure and the myth presented by Sri Ganesh, and find such an understanding as I would be able to receive in this atunement. It was also natural for me, from the first moment I had come to the temple, to see and feel Sri Ganesh within the Force and Light of the Mother, and I gradually began to see the deep inner significance of the stories that are told on Sri Ganesh’s birth and roles. I studied the myths and legends; I began to learn some slokas and mantras, slowly, tediously – I have no habit of learning and memorizing, and whatever I read or hear or see tends to disappear, leaving only impressions and some comprehension. I became interested in the period in which a cult had formed around Ganesh which saw him as a supreme entity. It puzzled me for long that Ganesh had initially been the god creator of obstacles, who then became the one to be propitiated so that an obstacle could be surmounted, to finally become the Remover of obstacles. I looked and introspected for the deeper meaning, the deeper function. Gradually it all became more concrete.

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