with Sri Ganesh

A couple came - North Indians I think -and stood before Sri Ganesh for a long time and then asked to sit a while in the garden, and offered Rs. 100/- They later introduce themselves to me: Karthik and Ashwini, living in their own property named “Thandava” near Morattandi, and tell me they knew Kusum well and she had come and performed puja in their own temple to Lord Ganesh.

Sri Ganesh You move about in Constant harmony, The Great Champion Of Her Work in Creation, And you bear tokens Of Her treasures Everywhere, Like a call to all To join in the delight Of the Lord’s Becoming, Beautiful Ganesha...

- 13-02-10:

… I wonder how to work on this worsening condition in my body; my legs and feet seem to be under some spell, they become like wood… I have started cycling again, the same long tours, and am otherwise able to rebuild most of the muscles gradually, but nothing at all seems to help this particular distress in the body; it is like an interference or a blockage in the nerve transmission, or the blood circulation, or what? I do not know. There are no external, visible symptoms, no swellings, nothing; but it’s all I can do to walk around the garden, one step at a time…! Bitti phones me to warn me that Madhu has been trying in his usual roundabout way to have access to the temple in my absence, and tells me she is not at all inclined to make things easy for him…

Sri Ganesh, Welcoming, auspicious one, Harbinger of true plenty, Brother of Agni,

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