8/27/09

Ganesha - Anushthana


Dear Sadhakas,

Boundless blessings from the Guru Parampara and best wishes on Ganesha Chaturthi festival to you and your family. May Lord Ganesha and dedicated Mother Godess Parvati shower lots of Grace, happiness, health, wealth in this crucial hour of economic crisis.

On this auspicious occasion, I would like to share a message that I received from the Masters of the Himalayan Tradition and how to celebrate this years Ganesha Chaturthi festival.

The word Ganesha is from the words ‘Gana’ (group) and ‘Isha’ (Lord). ‘Chatur’ means ‘four’.

In anybody’s life, there are 4 important dimensions to be understood. They are called the ‘Purushaartha Sadhana’. They are – Dharma, Artha, Kaama, and Moksha.

Dharma means righteous living.

Artha means mobilizing the resources to build up righteous life for oneself, family and the community.

Kaama means the desires and aspirations to lead a complete life with all joys, health, happiness, harmony at all levels.

Moksha is the purpose of life to liberate oneself from all the misery and to experience the boundless joy of freedom.

Our Artha and Kaama, i.e., the resource making and the desires, should be guided by the other two – Dharma on the one side and Moksha on the other side. So life has to travel from Dharma, pass through Artha and Kaama and reach the Moksha. So these 4 groups are very important and Ganesha is the Lord of these 4.

On this Ganesha Chaturthi day, let us remember the purpose of life, the aspirations of life and the dynamics of life. Let us create a broad base and righteousness with virtues and values and vision and build a beautiful abode with the right desires and well-earned resources and rejoice in the inner most space of freedom blessed to every soul which does not know the suffering, the agony and other negative emotions or colours. Let us make Sankalpa on this day to build such a holistic, purposeful life for oneself and for others.

To create such a life, we need the blessings of Lord Ganesha who removes the obstacles and Goddess Parvati who gives us indomitable strength and confidence to go through the challenges of life in creating such a visionful life.

This is the message of the Himalayan Masters to contemplate on this very auspicious day which is nothing but the beginning of our new life with new vision and new message. Remember, this day onwards, to receive the blessings and inspirations from the Masters and you can do the mantra anushtana for 21 days. The mantra for the anushtana is

OM-HREEM-SHREEM-GAM GANESHA-ANTARGATA-SHAKTI-ROOPINYAI NAMAH

In South India, the tradition goes like –

(a) first day, it is Gowri festival where one worships Divine Mother Parvati and seek her blessings;

(b) second day is the Ganesha Chaturti where on worships Lord Ganesha (after seeking the blessings from the Divine Mother) who is the remover of all obstacles, impediments in life and lead us to reach our destination – complete freedom from misery through 4 groups of Dharma, Artha, Kaama and Moksha.

With yogic pranams,
Sri Pattabhiram.

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