with Sri Ganesh

Occult in Material Nature, Cleanly Generous, Profoundly Harmonious, A single gesture Of your figure Is the sharing with all Of a world of treasures – Precise and conscious Is your Universal dance…

- 23-07-09:

… Today again, only Duraikanan, the local “political sadhu”, comes in, to do his pranams and get his Tilakam … This is puzzling to me: why does this place attract particularly such characters? … Later, I get the unexpected visit of the Revenue Tahsildar from Villupuram in charge of land-acquisition, here to check and confirm the amount of land marked out as required, with an assistant of his. They have several maps indicating clearly that they do plan to cut across the garden, just one meter away from the temple rear wall, taking away the bore-well and the water lines and destroying a number of large, kingly trees… However the fellow, a man named Jawarlal, seems to be a refined and sensitive sort and he listens carefully to my explanations and I can see he is trying in his mind to work out some alternative… But, Sri Ganesh, it is for you to see to it…!

Sri Ganesh, The music and the dance and the life

And the power And the depth And vibrancy of your figure, Fire and milk and honey And the redness Of your awareness, Are held in the tranquil Flow And presence Of the Mother…!

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