with Sri Ganesh

Sri Ganesh, Today you appear, Despite both your bulk And your majesty, To be sportive and festive And nimble In your expression – Which is yet Very deep and knowing, Drawing from sciences

Forgotten by men, As if you were kin To a vast interlinking Within This universe –

And thus are your postures Filled With a tender mystery…

Aum.

- 29-09-10:

The weather remains heavily overcast, and it drizzles for a long while this morning… … Yesterday, on Parthy’s strong, insistent request, I gave the newly created figure of Sinha Ganapati a special bath of invocation, in which one by one I crushed fruits with milk and curd and dates and seeds of grains and rose water and sandal paste… I do not have the mental knowledge or the culture to act as a true Pujari and yet I do have some understanding and some direct sense of what it all truly means or represents, and perhaps in this way I qualify…

Today Sri Ganesh More than usual you Express and convey The quality that rises When the union Of both principles Is

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