with Sri Ganesh

Today You show = Your vehicle, yourself, The whole of Nature Before the Mother In clean reverence, On a solid basis Illumined By true knowledge…

- 02-12-10:

Again, yesterday, from noon till about 5pm a very heavy and dense rain poured on, a flooding rain, as the ground is already saturated and new water only runs over it and breaks its way open everywhere… Half of the town of Pondy was inundated, and there was much damage in and around Cuddalore… … There is that little fellow who works part-time as a carpenter in a nearby village, is married with one child, but behaves, acts and dresses like a sadhu, who has been coming quite a few times recently. Today he told me more of his life…: he was actually apprentice and shishya to a guru of the Ramalingam line, particularly versed in plants and herbs, in Thiruvannamalai, for about 12 years, from the age of 7 when his father died of an accident to the age of 19 when his guru died…

Sri Ganesh, In your deep silent shrine You are sumptuous – In that calm, rich radiance You and your adoring mount Await, Ready to welcome,

And willing To usher in An age of balance And bountiful harmony, If only In the hearts of men Respect Could grow again…

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