Fifteen Days Of Lord Ganesha

Om Gam Ganapataye Namah

Each morning at 3am in Kadavul temple, one of our monks performs an abhishekam to Lord Ganesha. The Lord of Categories is invoked, bathed in fresh water, oiled, and offered songs, incense, and fresh cut fruit and flowers. He is then dressed for the day based on his daily color which the monk can find in our panchangam calendar. Well before sunrise Ganesha's grace fills the temple and prepares it lovingly for the coming day. This month our 3am pujari has been taking the occasional photo following Lord Ganesha's Alankaram. Here is Lord Ekadanta's darshan from the last 15 days accompanied by verses from Auvaiyar Ma, the 9th century Tamil saint.

"The God with the elephantine visage I shall never forget--Shankara's son, with massive belly and the thodu in His ear, the Lord who gave His grace to Indra, of whom mantra is His very form." Yogaswami's Natchintanai

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From the inspirations of saint Auvaiyar Ma: \"Cool, fragrant lotus feet with anklets tinkling sweet, gold girdle, flower-soft garment setting off the comely hips, pot-belly and big, heavy tusk, elephant-face with the bright red mark, five hands, the goad, the noose, blue body dwelling in the heart, pendulous jaws, four mighty shoulders,\"

\"three eyes and the three required marks, two ears, the gold crown gleaming, the breast aglow with the triple thread, O Being, bright and beautiful! Wish-yielding elephant, born of the Master of Mystery in Mount Kailasa,\"

\"mouse-rider, fond of the three famed fruits, desiring to make me yours this instant, you like a mother have appeared before me and cut the delusion of unending births.\"

\"You have come and entered my heart, imprinting clear the five prime letters, set foot in the world in the form of a guru, declared the final truth is this, gladly, graciously shown the way of life unfading.\"

\"With that unfailing weapon, your glance, you have put an end to my heinous sins, poured in my ear uncloying precepts, laid bare for me the clarity of ever-fresh awareness, sweetly given me your sweet grace for firm control of the senses five, taught how to still the organs of action;\"

\"snapped my two-fold karma and dispelled my darkness, giving, out of grace, a place for me in all four states; dissolved the illusion of triple filth, taught me how to shut the five sense gates of the nine-door temple, fixed me firm in the six yogic centers, stilled my speech, taught me the writ of ida and pingala, shown me at last the head of sushumna.\"

\"To the tongue of the serpent that sinks and soars you have brought the force sustaining the three bright spheres of sun, moon and fire-- the mantra unspoken asleep in the snake-- and explicitly uttered it;\"

\"imparted the skill of raising by breath the raging flame of muladhara; explained the secret of immortality, the sun\

s movement and the charm of the moon;\"'

\"the water lily\

s friend, the sixteen states of the prasada mantra; revealed to me in thoughtful wisdom the six-faced form and the meanings four;\"'

\"disclosed to me the subtle body and the eight separate modes of being; the orifice of Brahman opened, giving me miraculous powers, by your sweet grace, and mukti, too; revealed my Self to me and by your grace swept away accumulated karma,\"

\"stilled my mind in tranquil calm beyond speech and thought; clarified my intellect, plunged me in bliss which is the common ground of light and darkness.\"

\"Boundless beatitude you have given me, ended all affliction, shown the way of grace: Siva eternal at the core of sound, Sivalinga within the heart, atom within atom, vast beyond all vastness, sweetness hid in the hardened node.\"

\"You have steadied me clear in human form all besmeared with holy ashes; added me to the congregation of your servants true and trusty;\"

\"made me experience in my heart the inmost meaning of the five letters; restored my real state to me; and rule me now,\"

\" O Master of Wisdom, Vinayaka. Your feet alone, O Master of Wisdom, Vinayaka, your feet alone, are my sole refuge.\" Om Gam Ganapataye Namah

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