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Lord Ganesha perhaps is one of the most revered deities in the Hindu pantheon.

You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn't recognize the elephant-headed God Ganesha.

What is it that makes Ganesha such a renowned character that is recognized worldwide?

1. Ganesha is known as the Lord of good fortune and he is said to provide wealth prosperity in both the mind and the wallet as well as blessing his devotees with success in their own endeavors

2. Others recognize Ganesha as the Lord of new beginnings whether in relationships business or any form of life

3. Lord Ganesha can be seen as the remover of obstacles for those who are struggling and yet he can also be known as the place of obstacles given that he seeks to challenge those who are not growing.

4. He also seeks to challenge those who have done wrong it takes on a minor role at times as being the destroyer of vanity and pride.

Regardless of the other spiritual associations a Hindu may have when he still make time to honor Ganesha whose image is found virtually everywhere in India and in many places across the globe.

His presence though also spreads outside of Hinduism where he is associated with the first chakra and thus represents survival and the base for all other forms of life

Others see connection not just as the Hindu deity but also a patron of science and the arts.

In the actual Hindu tales Lord Ganesha like many of the other gods have taken on a different role here and their.

Several sacred Hindu texts speak about Ganesha quite vividly and it's easy to see why he's so popular. Given his tales appear to have distinct more endings.

Lord Ganehsa Family Pic with Shiva and Mom Parvati

For the most part, Ganesha is said to be the son of Shiva the destroyer and his wife Parvati.

There are many different variations of Lord Ganesha's conception including being created by Shiva alone being created by parvati alone being created by the pair of them through the regular means of conception or simply by finding him.

Ganesha is also commonly associated with being the brother of Kartkeya otherwise known as Mulligan the God of War but despite Hatake s position as the God of War his popularity and worship is considerably less than that of his brothers.

Ganesha is most commonly seen as having an elephant's head and a large round belly, however there have been some variations of Ganesha's appearance including depictions of him simply being a boy as well as a regular elephant.

We commonly see Ganesha with four arms although they exist the pictures of Ganesha having as few as two arms and as many as sixteen.

With the more common form depiction, we see Ganesha holding his own broken tusk a sweet and axe and the noose.

In other two pictures of Ganesha with more than four arms he can be seen holding a water lily a mace a discus a rosary a bowl of sweets musical instruments Spears and staff.

In Easter fictions Ganesha may be seen in a variety of different poses.

You may see him in a tantric yoga pose or standing upright.

We may see him dancing or even crawling in a more childlike form.

In other depictions, he's even seated on Parvati's knee.

GAnesha Family Pic with Ganesha Sitting at Parvati's Knee

Ganesha may also be seen with his mount which ironically happens to be a mouse the use of a mouse is symbolic given that elephants are known to fear mice at least from ancient mysteries and so with this embracing of the mouse as a mount it shows knishes ability to overcome all obstacles including fear itself.

How Did Lord Ganesha Got Elephant's Head?

There exist many vivid tales of Ganesha whose story served to teach us clear moral lessons.

However, Ganesha also has one of the most unique origin stories which describes how he came to possess the head of an elephant.

It's understood from these tales that the goddess Parvati wanted to bathe in privacy and so she created a boy and assigned him to God the entrance of her bathroom but when her husband she returned home and found the boy standing guard he went to move past him but Ganesha blocks Shiva's path denying his entrance as Parvati had instructed him to.

Not we defy though least of all by a child she was struck off the boy's head with his sword. When Goddess Parvati emerged from the bathroom and found that a capitated boy she was terribly upset

Seeking to undo the damage he'd done she was sent out his warriors to find the first dead creature they could find which happened to be an elephant.

In other versions it is Shiva himself who dashes out into the wilderness to find the first animal he can find which turned out to be an elephant as well.

In both cases the head of an elephant was removed and placed on the body of the dead boy.

The boy was then brought back to life by Shiva and thus the boy became the elephant-headed God we all know today.

Given that his role was created in his instance - God Parvati doorway Ganesha's depictions are often placed facing boys to keep out those who are not permitted to enter

There are other famous accounts though conflicting including the story of how Ganesha stuffs came to be broken .

1. Ganesha Broke Himself his Tusk

One popular idea is that Ganesha actually broke it off himself when he couldn't find any writing utensils so that he could write the Mahabharata one of the world's longest epic poems.

The task at hand was so urgent the history of thought could not be interrupted with the finding of another pen.

The sacrifice of his own tusks signifies the sacrifice one may make in creative endeavors in order to complete once work to the fullest.

Another account suggests the Mahabharata was created by a sage and nails he who was telling the tale to Ganesha who was writing it down

However wehn ganesh quill snapped he immediately broke of his own task to use instead as the sate would not stop the story.

2. Tusk Got Broken in Fight with Parasurama

in another story Ganesha is asked by Shiva to God his room as he takes a nap inside but when a proud warrior named Parasurama came to visit Shiva he was plucked by Ganesha

At a frustration of being denied entrance by this we'd hybrid elephant boy thing Perish around through his axe at Canisius head.

Ganesha was able to block the attack but his tusks took most of the impact causing it to break off.

3. Birthday and Snake Story

Ganesha Birthday and Snake Story of Tusk

Another tale speaks of how Ganesha went around all the houses of the land on one of his birthdays to collect sweets and cakes which he stored in his stomach

However on the way home the mouse which was his mount saw a snake and became so startled that it stumbled

This caused Ganesha to be held from his seat and he would cut open his own stomach causing all the sweets and cakes to burst out onto the floor

Unwilling to leave them behind for everyone to see Ganesha gathered them all up and stuffed them back into his stomach

He then grabbed hold of the snake that the mouse had seen and used it to tire of his stomach to prevent the sweets and spilling out again

4. Silencing Moon from Tusk

in some versions the moon happens to see Ganesh a fall it comes a life of laughter the gods expense.

Annoyed by this Ganesha pulls off his tusks and hell's at the moon silencing it.

Ganesha and Vishnu Story

Ganesha appears to have quite a few run-ins with the other gods and his relationships with them seem to see him get the better of them even against the supreme God's like Vishnu.

In one story Vishnu who is known to carry a magic conch that he keeps with him at all times could not find him

He became rattled there not being able to find the conch and organized a massive search for it but during the search lord vishnu heard the sound that had been played somewhere in the distance

He zoomed off in the direction only to find Lord Ganesha happily playing with it in the mountains.

When Ganesha would not relinquish the Consular not even to Vishnu himself Vishnu and to Ganesh his father shiva expected him to bring his son to order.

Shiva merely sighed and claimed that he had as much power of a Ganesha as Vishnu did and that the only way to reclaim the conch was to pray to Him.

Reluctantly Vishnu performed a prayer in honor of Ganesha the Cygnus Ganesha was both proud and pleased that Vishnu had paid him respects and so returned his conch to him.

In this light we see Ganesha as quite mischievous and he likes to have light-hearted fun at the other gods expenses even those who are considered to be much more powerful than him.

She was reluctant to get involved directly just goes to show us that even he the destroyer cannot deal with Ganesha's mischief.

Kabira and Ganesha Story

Another example of Ganesha getting the better of the other gods with his sometimes absent or simply impish mindset is when he is invited to a sumptuous ceremony hosted by the God of wealth Kabira.

Kabira invited many of the other gods and goddesses to join them in what he hoped would be a spectacular evening.

However when Ganesha arrived he began devouring all the food to the point that he would leave nothing for the other guests.

His hunger though was not satisfied with just the food so he began consuming kabira's personal collection of wealth including the goal itself.

Even after this his hunger wasn't sated and he even tried to eat Kabir himself.

Kabir has scolded Ganesha for his behavior but he realized his words were falling on deaf ears.

So like Vishnu in the previous tale Kabir Oh into Shiva in hopes that he'd be able to reprimand his own son.

Shiva simply offered Ganesha a bowl of oats and it was with this gesture that managed to sate the gods appetite.

so stunned by this Kabir asked why it was that just simple oats were enough to stop knishes rampage.

Shiva explained that knishes rampage was born out of Kabir as greed and that this whole experience was to teach Kabir a lesson that he should not put all his faith and well-being into his possessions and he should share more.

The moral of this story serves to show us just because we may have a lot of money like Kabira we should be careful not to spend it so frivolously.

Canisius mischievous sneak has gotten him into a lot of trouble however in one story ganesha who was still a child at this point was playing with her cats.

The cat being a cat had decided it no longer wish to play and so strutted off.

Ganesha kept prodding it and pulling its tail even though the kept me out in his study.

Ganesha failed to notice these signs though and it wasn't until he got home did he find his mother PArvati covered in bruises Ganesha rushed to her and asked her well that happened to which PArvati explained as she had taken the form of the cat and it was he who had done this to her even as she hissed at him to stop.

it cost Ganesha to realized the unfairness and ruthlessness of his ways that he had hurt someone he loved because of his own negligence to their feelings.

Ganesha would become deeply sorry for his actions and took an oath that he would treat all animals and future with gentle care and affection.

She would certainly Revere his own son in a way that's quite unexpected given a he himself was a Supreme Court on the same level as Brahma and Vishnu.

in another story we see the relationship between Shiva and Ganesha deepen with Shiva honors Ganesha stating that whenever someone begins a new venture in life they would need to worship Ganesha to receive his blessing.

This included Shiva himself.

So on one occasion when Shiva was heading out for a war against demons he forgot to pray to Ganesha for his blessing,

This would leave Shiva and his army to become afflicted with misfortune on their way to the battle where their war courage lost a wheel and an entire army came to a halt.

it was during this moment that Shiva realized he had forgot to get the blessings of his son for this new endeavor and so he quickly performed a worship ritual in honor of Ganesha.

With this he received Ganesha's blessing and Shiva and his army were able to defeat the demons.

Ganesha and Kartikeya Story

The final story I'll talk about in this video before I get out of here is my favorite story between Ganesha and his brother Kartikeya.

One day their mother poverty would be granted a special fruit by a sage that would grant he who consumed it a great power.

PArvati would attempt to split the fruit in half to share with her sons but the sage explained that in doing so the fruit would lose its power.

Only if it was consumed by one entity would it wanna eat of its powers.

Unsure of which son to give the fruit to shiva devised the contest where the brothers would have to compete.

The winner would be the recipient of the fruit.

The contest would consist of circumventing the world three times and whoever did so first would be the winner.

Wasting no time Kartikeya has summoned his peacock mount and dashed off to circumvent the world.

Ganesha being the pot-bellied Stocki being that he was he knew he could not hope to keep up Katya.

Furthermore Karthikeya and his peacock mount were far more suited to travelling across the harsh terrain .

Ganesha had a mouse for a mount and didn't have the bill to go about running the way Cotter K occurred.

so he came up with a genius if not partially manipulative idea he began to circle his parents three times and when asked what he was doing Ganesha explained that he was circling his world.

So touched by his gesture Shiva and poverty gave Ganesha the fruit.

It's unknown if Ganesha was actually authentic with his gesture but given how rascally Ganesha could be it's safe to assume that he may have been pulling on his parents heartstrings in order to get what he wanted.

Either way it shows us that what Kartikeya was the broad in this scenario Ganesha was the brain and in this sense wisdom triumphs over strength.