with Sri Ganesh

… Today, the young woman who often comes on her way to work to do her pranams quietly – she is, I feel, a courageous girl -, while she was standing before Sri Ganesh and I was still inside the shrine, burst into silent tears…

Sri Ganesh, Brother Knight, Champion of the Mother, Help clear the way, The true way, the right way, The vast way, This is the clearing You must do – O joyful, incorruptible Brother, Let your dance be A cleansing and a yielding Of all resistances To the True, the Right, the Vast, So that Her treasures Of Harmony Can be shared By all.

- 13-05-09:

This morning I found the following note, laid on the inner step in the temple, with a few fresh flowers: “Good morning, I received your letter and I was shocked to read about your request to return the keys. Now I declare firmly that ‘I will not return the keys’. I want to visit Sri Ganesh whenever I feel to visit the Lord. Please, please thousand times never ask for the keys. They are mine. If you want me to be humble and simple you can give me your keys and never come back to the Sri Ganesh temple in your life. How is my idea?

Smile… Thanks, C. Manikandan”

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