with Sri Ganesh

Warm and soothing is your light For all, A shelter of rich, tender fire, A poise and an anchor In Her Infinity…

- 15-02-10:

… The Highway crews have littered the place with their food wrappers and used up a lot of water, probably to bathe… It is such an unpleasant trait of present humanity: the callous, careless, obscure disregard for simple, basic cleanliness and harmony. But what is even more difficult to comprehend is the sort of meanness and dark intent that causes someone to take the fresh flowers away from the public tap (which I place there every morning for the joy of the people) and throw them on the ground… Why? What pleasure or thrill can be had by doing that? So now the new high-tension lines are stretched over the North- Western part of the garden; it passes right over the wall… Meanwhile cranes and earth-diggers are busy on the Western side of the existing main road. I cannot see the real advantages of this so-called modern development, I cannot find any redeeming virtues in this relentless pursuit of organized comfort which is so entirely artificial and destructive and alienating…

Sri Ganesh, Today you seem to wield

The Organizing Will Of the Supreme –

Its character is at once That of a lightning bolt That reaches all of space Simultaneously Like a white epiphany, And that of a fraternal array Of happy vigors That reaches everyone

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