Shri Ganesha Puja, August 26, 1990, Lanersbach, Austria
Photo taken at Shri Ganesha Puja, September 2, 1984, Riffelberg, Switzerland
So today we are celebrating the birthday of Shri Ganesha, because that’s a very important thing for all of us that we should celebrate His birthday.
... You know that He resides within us. Now we have a very great asset within us that we know about Shri Ganesha, and that we can excite His powers.
To manifest Shri Ganesha, we have to do certain amount of Tapasya - penance. First we have to say, when we sit for meditation, that, "I am going to be worthy of Your appreciation. Make me humble, so
that I am appreciated by You, and my only desire is to please You." Then you sit down in complete preparedness, meditating over your Mooladhara, putting your attention to it with absolute purity. Now you have My photograph before you and you tell the photograph that, "Mother, You who are Shri Ganesha you give me wisdom and discretion.''
Shri Ganesha Puja, September 11, 1983, Tivoli, Italy
Dear All,
Today we gather together to worship Shri Mataji in the form of Shri
Ganesha.
Let us all thank Shri Mataji again and again for giving us our second birth and for molding us in the same pattern She has molded Her First Son Shri Ganesha.
Shri Mataji, please guide us and always help us so that we could rise to Your expectations and that You could see Your First Son Shri Ganesha in us. Shri Mataji, please help us in establishing our Shri Ganesha principle. Shri Mataji, please give us
wisdom and discrimination.
Photo taken at Shri Ganesha Puja, August 4, 1985, Brighton, UK
"Ganesha is the greatest of all the Deities created by Adi Shakti. Though She is the Primordial Mother, She marvels at Her Son and gives Him great reverence. No amount of words can describe the
all-encompassing nature of Shri Ganesha. His bodily proportions create a coefficient by which vibrations are caused to be emitted. It is the same with the coefficient of the Divine Power (Pranava). So He is the actualisation of Pranava or Divine Love, and is the total power of Adi Shakti. When He takes form (vyakta) as Jesus Christ, He symbolises the light of total awareness, but as Shri Ganesha He is the seed of awareness. ......
The Swastika and the
Cross
His symbol is the swastika, which rotates clockwise while creating, and anti-clockwise while destroying. While revolving it acts with equal and opposite forces, giving steadiness. The four lines of the swastika are like Shri Ganesha's four arms which carry the symbolic weapons and accessories at the end of each. In the life of Jesus Christ, the swastika is symbolised as a cross, Actually the cross is the evolved form of the swastika (vyakta). The crossing point of the evolved form is higher than in the swastika because Christ came at a point when creation was at a higher point of evolution, and human beings were born with greater
awareness."
The Book of Adi Shakti by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi (Chapter 12 Mooladhara Chakra, Pages 181 and 183)
“That’s why the first job of Sahaja Yoga is to establish Shri Ganesha within you, to awaken Him.
As soon as the Kundalini awakens, you must know that, Shri Ganesha comes into being. Without His awakening within you, the Kundalini cannot be raised . So today is a very great day, we must all pray to Shri Ganesha that He should give His blessings, because He’s the source of joy, He’s the source of joy, He is Christ, He’s in your heart, resides as spirit, so He’s the one, the innocence you have to achieve.”
Shri Ganesha Puja, January 21, 1984, Nashik, India
Suggested Talk for today:
Bhajans:
Shri Mataji singing Jay Jagadambe at Sahasrara Puja in Paris, May 5th,1982
soundcloud.com/sahaja-library/1982-0505-shri-mataji-singing
Om Twavema Sakshat Shri Ganesha Sakshat Shri Adi Shakti Mataji Shri Nirmala Devyai Namo Namah.
Jai Shri Mataji!
On behalf of the Festivity Team