with Sri Ganesh

Offered To the establishment

Of a true progressive harmony, And the forces you may fight With your deeper knowledge, The noose of your wisdom, Are those that still deny The plenitude Which yet they crave – And all about you, Sri Ganesh, The battlefield is strewn With a multitude Of blooms...

Aum.

... In the afternoon I ordered and paid for 300 laddus in the Cottage (all prices have steeply risen): Rs. 3,000/-; gave the flower lady an advance of Rs. 1,000/- and spent with Parthy, for a sack of special golden brown unpolished rice and a bucketful of golden green amla fruit another Rs. 2,000/-...

- 24-08-11:

A little rain fell here in the night and the garden is refreshed...

Sri Ganesh, You are the trustee of the Treasure And the First Chosen Vehicle Of its spreading And creative multiplying –

And as you appear today, Filled with Its inexhaustible potency,

Your whole figure and countenance, Your exquisitely refined radiance, As each of your Nourishing gestures, Seem to signify The way of due, conscious increase By the Law

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