with Sri Ganesh

Murthy, the contractor, is beginning the work: setting a first team of masons and helpers, bringing tools and materials and, after doing their pranams to Sri Ganesh, they all do a little puja before starting the foundation. Later Arun also comes in to see everything…

Sri Ganesh, Your Form is like A dimensional threshold – Your figure so precisely, Elaborately, profoundly, Thoroughly cultured, Is a welcoming doorway To the stairs of the Lord’s Process Of Manifestation, Brought forth By the Energy of the worlds – And your garb and your jewels and Your ornaments Are exact offerings To the centers of Her being In Becoming.

- 29-06-10:

… Two teams are at work: the masons’ team and Krishna’s team – who are strengthening the temporary fence.

… The fellow veterinary came early on to do his pranams and to offer a special plant of ‘Courage”, a rare white variety – it is a plant whose flowers Ganeshji is said to be very fond of, each shaped like a strong, thick, waxy star with a raised center, usually of a pale bluish mauve color; the stems of this plant are filled with a milk that is powerful enough to render one blind, but also has medicinal properties. He himself wants to dig the hole and plant it, near the pond…

… We again have trouble with the pump switch…

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