Shri Ganesha and Mooladhara Chakra Shri Ganesha is very powerful, yet playful. He gets very angry with anyone who is against his Mother, Shri Parvati. He is the one who informs the Kundalini when it is time to awaken, and it is his anger which produces the heat in the subtle system.
He is the remover of all obstacles. The wisdom of Shri Ganesha is the wisdom of the heart.
Ganesha Symbolism
Shri Ganesha has a big head, because he thinks big. His small eyes show his focused attention. His long trunk stands for high efficiency and for his capacity to adapt to any situation. His large ears make for good listening, and his small mouth shows that he talks very little. His large stomach enables peaceful digestion of all that is good and bad in life.
Shri Ganesha rides a little mouse, symbolizing his control over his desires, which, unless under control, can cause havoc. One should reign in one’s desires and keep them under control. Shri Ganesha’s one tusk shows us that he holds on only to good habits and gives up all that is bad and destructive.
Shri Ganesha’s Creation
Goddess Parvati decided that she wanted a son of her very own. She used clay and oil from her skin to sculpt a little boy. She brought the boy to life and named him Ganesha. Shri Ganesha re- sides inside everyone’s Mooladhara chakra.
Just as he guarded Goddess Parvati’s bath house, he guards our Kundalini. He is the general of the army of Ganas, or angels, that are constantly protecting realized souls and children. Shri Ganesha’s army is the most powerful in the whole uni-verse, and no one can stand in his way! That is why he is the Remover of Obstacles. If you have a problem, you can pray to Lord Ganesha and he will remove the problem for you.
Shri Ganesha manifested in Australia as Uluru whih is a very big mountain that looks like Shri Ganesha.
The Mooladhara Chakra is made of the earth element and represents the beginning of life. When the Mooladhara awakens, the earth element manifests as a magnetic force within the person. For instance a person with a strong Mooladhara has a good inner sense of direction. – Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi
One day Goddess Parvati asked her two sons to play a game – they were to race around the Mother Earth to see who would be the fastest. Shri Kartikeya jumped on his swift peacock with a laugh and started to fly! Little Shri Ganesha sat on his tiny mouse and cocked his head, thinking. I can’t run as fast as my brother – but I don’t have to.
My Mother is right here, and she IS the Mother Earth!” Shri Ganesha, representing the powers of innocence and wisdom, sat on his mouse and circled his mother, Goddess Parvati. By the time his brother Kartikeya came back, little Shri Ganesha was happily sitting with the prize for winning the race – eating a big bowl of sweets!
How Shri Ganesha got his elephant head
Goddess Parvati decided that She wanted to take a bath. She told Her beloved son, Ganesha, to guard Her bath house and not let anyone enter until She was finished. With complete loyalty to his Mother, Ganesha stood in front of the bath house’s door.
When Lord Shiva came to the door, little Ganesha would not let him pass. Lord Shiva did not know who this child was that dared to disobey Him. In a rage He cut off the child’s head in order to pass into the house. Fortunately, the Power of Innocence cannot be killed.
When Goddess Parvati learned what had happened, Her anger knew no bounds! Lord Shiva then realized that the little boy was the Goddess’s son. He knew He must make up for His mis- take and He left the house and went into a field.
The first creature that He saw was a child elephant with one tusk. He beheaded the baby elephant and put the head on the body of little Shri Ganesha. The moment he did so, He came back to life – but now with the head of an elephant.
Stonhenge is another swayambhu of the Mother Earth, found in England. (These are the stones which emit vibrations.)
Mooladhara Chakra
| Deity | Shri Ganesha |
| Number of petals: | 4 Petals |
| Body Parts: | Excretory organs |
| Flower: | Hibiscus |
| Musical iInstrument: | Shehnai |
| Color: | Coral Red |
| Fruit: | Coconut, Pomegranate |
| Element: | Earth |
| Country: | Australia |
| Vehicle: | Mouse |
| Location on hands: | Heel of palm |
| Precious Stone: | Coral |
| Symbol: | Swastika |
| Planet: | Mars |
| Obstacles: | Impure attention |
| Qualities: | Innocence, Wisdom, Chastity, Purity |
| Cause of obstruction: | Impure attention |
| Clearing: | Sit on the Mother Earth as much as possible |
Shri Ganesha Puja
Today we are going to worship Shri Ganesha. It’s a very opportune time today, I feel, where the innocence, especially in the European and American countries, is under attack. There’s no respect of the innocence, no value for the innocence. They don’t understand how important it is for human life to have innocence being respected within themselves and also without.
The human life is different from that of animal life. Animals are controlled all the time, or we can say they are under a complete imprisonment, you can say, under the will of Lord Sadashiva. That’s why He’s called as Pashupati.
But human beings have been given freedom to choose their ascent, to choose the right, to choose the truth. Only through innocence they can achieve that. Only the innocence is the source of joy. Without innocence, you cannot enjoy anything fully.
This innocence is today completely under challenge, and to finish the innocence, in a very subtle way, there are very negative, cruel, criminal type of people who are working it out. Their minds, if you say possessed, it doesn’t look like that, because otherwise they are quite intelligent.
They are also, in a way, creative of horrible things. So you can’t say they are not intelligent, but from where do they get this knowledge of creating something so horrifying?
In this Kali Yuga, as in Sahaja Yoga, everybody can take birth. There’s freedom. It was not before so much so that all kinds of evil people have taken birth on this earth. These evil people generate evil thoughts, and people catch them and start moving with it.
Even a good person can get swayed by it. Even a saint can get swayed by it. So these forces of evil, the forces which are working out today, are coming basically from these horrible people.
Firstly, they might have come as false gurus, teaching something nonsensical, like Rajneesh. Then from some philosophers like Freud, who is still accepted in some countries as a great philosopher and still some psychologists worship him as god.
This Freudian knowledge was accepted without even thinking why Freud did that. Freud was a Jew, and he found that many Christians tortured the Jews in America.
This is another anti-Christ activity. And when they tortured the Jews, this fellow thought that, better to make them immoral, destroy their innocence. I don’t know if he could understand to that point. And he started theories which were so shocking that normally any sensible person would never have accepted it. But so many people accepted in America to begin with.
First of all, we have to understand we are born in very precarious, dangerous times. At the time of Christ, there were very few people who followed Him and they didn’t understand much about Kundalini either. They had no knowledge.
They had no knowledge that Christ was the incarnation of Shri Ganesha. But in the Christian countries only you find the insult of Christ, the insult of innocence openly done, sometimes legally accepted.
So when we are born under such horrible circumstances, we have to build up a great force ourselves of spirituality. When I came today, there was no breeze, no leaf was moving, but you were singing songs and tremendous breeze was coming from you all, and that made Me understand that this divine force has come into being. It is there. It’s working. Not only that, but it’s very powerful.
Normally, breeze doesn’t come to Me; it goes the other way around. But it was such a tremendous breeze that I had to hold somebody’s hand. And not a leaf was moving. So this collective force that you have, you must remember you have to fight it, not to run away. Don’t escape it. You have to fight it and you have to prove that innocence is to be respected.
Adi Shakti first made Shri Ganesh. It was the first Deity [that] was created. Why? Because She wanted to fill the whole atmosphere with chaitanya, with holiness, with auspiciousness.
It is still there. It’s still everywhere you can feel chaitanya is working, but it does not penetrate into the modern minds because the modern mind doesn’t know what this innocence is. They have no idea at all about innocence. The way they are going on everywhere is really something [that] never happened on this earth.
So with the innocence comes moral life. Morality is the expression of innocence. Innocence shows a person that he’s incapable of being immoral.
Reference : 1996-09-15
