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Ganapati / Ganesha / Vigneshwara

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Ganesha has an elephantine countenance with a curved trunk and big ears, and a huge pot-bellied body of a human being. He is the Vignakarta (Obstacle-creator) and Vignahartra (Obstacle- averter). He is the lord of learning, the lord of intelligence. His two wives are Budhi (Intelligence) and Sidhi (accomplishment, success, spiritual power, psychic ability). Before I start explaining my observation, I wanted to make few facts straight. I'm a true believer, and I love and cherish the process of meditating on Lord Ganesha. This article is intended to demonstrate the depth of symbolism in Hinduism. It is solely my opinion from observational experimentation. According to me, there is a reason why Lord Ganesha represents himself with an elephant head. Those intelligent Yogis who decrypted the cosmic knowledge, who harnessed the power and knowledge to understand the deepest science related to astronomy, astrology, pharmacology, anatomy, etc might have had a solid reason to visualize G

Padmanab

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"SHAANTAAKAARAM BHUJAGASHAYANAM PADMANAABHAM SURESHAM VISHWAADHAARAM GAGANASADRASHAM MEGHAVARNAM SHUBHAANGAM. LAKSHMIKAANTAM KAMALANAYANAM YOGIBHIRDHYAANAGAMYAM VANDE VISHNUM BHAVABHAYAHARAM SARVALOKAIKANAATHAM. MEANING I bow to Lord Vishnu the One Master of the Universe, who is ever peaceful, who reclines on the great serpent bed, from whose navel springs the Lotus of the Creative Power, who is the Supreme Being, who supports the entire universe, who is all-pervading as the sky, who is dark like the clouds and has a beautiful form; the Lord of Lakshmi, the lotus-eyed One, whom the yogis are able to perceive through meditation, He, who is the destroyer of the fear of Samsar." The above image depicts Lord Vishnu resting on the spiral bed of Lord Ananthan (the Snake). An umbilical chord extends from him to a lotus on which Lord Brahma is resting (in patmasan). Now it is Brahma’