with Sri Ganesh

The maestri of the local wood-cutting team came to see the work: he will send his team tomorrow…

… I have prepared, with Sri Ganesh’s help, another wrist rope for Parthy’s protection and progress…

Sri Ganesh, How gorgeous you are today, With a poise and a balance So rich and generous And yet so Self-contained, How auspicious you are, Sri Ganesh –

Pray, show the way To reach such plenitude…

Aum Namo Bhagavate

- 30-01-10:

… It is past 10.30 am when the Highways’ contracted crew enter again and set to their hacking and toppling all along the compound wall, baring this quarter of the garden to the traffic and the huge old rusty transformer now rears like a monster in the naked space, with the new high-tension line now slashing through the air… This time I more or less forced these men to pay their respects to Sri Ganesh: they hadn’t even understood this was a temple and its grounds… … I don’t know what is wanted here. I don’t know whether there is enough quality here for the Lord to preserve and protect it and to lead it forward…

Here you are, Sri Ganesh, With such a sweetness and refinement Of power, But it is not the power men want – A power over, a dominance - = Rather, it is a power

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