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Ganesha helps

Don Penguinoini

Don Penguinoini

Modi.
Why do you think yourself important enough to deserve personal divine intervention from Lord Ganesh? Why is anyone? Who isn't worthy?

Slippery slope to think God helps you.
 
Maya3

Maya3

Well-Known Member
Don Penguinoini said:
Why do you think yourself important enough to deserve personal divine intervention from Lord Ganesh? Why is anyone? Who isn't worthy?

Slippery slope to think God helps you.
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Well...

First of all we are all worthy, second it is not about Ganesh finding me worthy or not.
It is me connecting to the Self and finding the key through focusing on Ganesha.

Maya
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
So this morning I'm out landscaping at His temple with a friend, and we start using two wheelbarrows. Unfortunately we soon discover one of them has a flat tire. So I go inside to check if the manager knows where the old hand air-pump is. He doesn't. But then he says, "but for some reason, this morning I figured I should bring this." He walks over to an old grocery bag, and pulls out the electric small type that works from a vehicle cigarette lighter.
 
Aupmanyav

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Don Penguinoini said:
Why do you think yourself important enough to deserve personal divine intervention from Lord Ganesh? Why is anyone? Who isn't worthy? Slippery slope to think God helps you.
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I am an atheist, but if I think like a theist, my deity loves me in the same measure at I love him/her. So, if I am totally devoted to my deity, he/she too is concerned only with me. As for others, they will have their own equation with their deity. That does not concern me. :D
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
I knew it had to happen eventually. One block over from our our place, some folks have a Ganesha sitting on a round concrete block, in the middle of their yard. A sure sign that the culture of India is shifting to the other side of the planet. One day there will be shrines on every corner. I'll give Him a flower on of these days. He'll make me.
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Jainarayan said:
I'd love to do something like that. :)
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Yes, so I did take him a flower this morning. Nothing like having a destination like that for your morning walk.

At the hotel we stay at in Madurai, there are 3 small Ganapati shrines on the corners of the very busy intersection. I think they're all there to pray for for just getting across the street, and then thanking Him for making it.
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
We were recently travelling, I was tired from driving and visiting, so morning sadhana was kind of put on the back burner. I was sitting having coffee by a window overlooking the railway track nearby where our daughter lives, on the west coast of Canada. I decided to count the cars, like some small child would on a boring summer day. Something said to concentrate on it. ... A few minutes later ... exactly 108. Sadhana done.
 
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jyoti82

Member
I'm new on this forum. But I've always been a Ganesha devotee. Theres a Ganesha temple in my city and I go there 3-4 times a week for aarti. I love it. I love Ganesha.
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
jyoti82 said:
I'm new on this forum. But I've always been a Ganesha devotee. Theres a Ganesha temple in my city and I go there 3-4 times a week for aarti. I love it. I love Ganesha.
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Welcome, and I hope you enjoy this forum, jyoti. I too go to a Ganesha temple in my city. Not as much as you though. Jai Ganesha!
 
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jyoti82

Member
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Maya3 said:
Last week we stayed in a family house in Florida.
We were told to take the key that was hidden on top of an outlet, open the door and then put the key back. There was no need to lock the door during the week we were there, so as not to loose their key we would just leave it where it was in the first place.

So yesterday morning we get up at 4.15 to go to the airport. We close up the house and reach for the key on top of the outlet. Key is NOT there! Not there! We were stumped, we had not used the key all week, left it on the outlet all week, not touched it at all. It was GONE.
We panicked got our flashlights crawled around on our hands and knees looking for it, thinking that maybe it had fallen down when we door slammed, however unlikely.
The entrance to the house that we used is a side door in a boat garage, full of bikes, vespa's, jet skies and other old stuff. We looked everywhere, it was not there. Gone. It was like being in the twilight zone.

We were about to give up, ready to call a locksmith, miss our plane and apologize to the house owners.
But I decided to try one more time. I stopped took a deep breath and prayed to Ganesha to please help us find the key.

And voila! I look to the right, and underneath the tire of their parked boat I see something that looked like a small pebble stick out, it was the key!

Maya
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jyoti82

Member
I don't know how it happened but I posted 2 pics of Ganesha. I took it at temple tonight. I'll get used to using this phone. Thanks for your patience.
 
Fireside_Hindu

Fireside_Hindu

Jai Lakshmi Maa
Today was my visit to my home temple before my two month trip to India. I sat for a while and prayed for the blessings of Sri MahaLakshmi as I sat before Lakshmi-Narayan (I had performed Satyanarayan puja for the first time a few days before so it seemed appropriate). I generally try not to ask for things, but this time I did ask for a safe trip, but also that if anything should happen to me, to take care of my husband.

For some reason my eyes went from the Lakshmi Narayan murti to a small brass bell that was next to them. The top of the brass bell was a dancing Ganesh, and even though it is not the temple's Ganesh murti for some reason the thought occurred to my mind that Ma Lakshmi was sending her brother Ganesh with me to be my guardian during my trip. This made/makes me very happy. I am not very lose to Ganesh ji but our relationship has been growing very slowly over the years and I am happy to feel that he is in charge.

I don't know, I know the Goddess is always with me. But maybe in a mystical sense she is sending her brother on ahead of her, while she "stays at home" to look after my husband. I don't know. Maybe that sounds silly, but it feels right.
 
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jyoti82

Member
Fireside_Hindu said:
Today was my visit to my home temple before my two month trip to India. I sat for a while and prayed for the blessings of Sri MahaLakshmi as I sat before Lakshmi-Narayan (I had performed Satyanarayan puja for the first time a few days before so it seemed appropriate). I generally try not to ask for things, but this time I did ask for a safe trip, but also that if anything should happen to me, to take care of my husband.

For some reason my eyes went from the Lakshmi Narayan murti to a small brass bell that was next to them. The top of the brass bell was a dancing Ganesh, and even though it is not the temple's Ganesh murti for some reason the thought occurred to my mind that Ma Lakshmi was sending her brother Ganesh with me to be my guardian during my trip. This made/makes me very happy. I am not very lose to Ganesh ji but our relationship has been growing very slowly over the years and I am happy to feel that he is in charge.

I don't know, I know the Goddess is always with me. But maybe in a mystical sense she is sending her brother on ahead of her, while she "stays at home" to look after my husband. I don't know. Maybe that sounds silly, but it feels right.
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Fireside_Hindu said:
Today was my visit to my home temple before my two month trip to India. I sat for a while and prayed for the blessings of Sri MahaLakshmi as I sat before Lakshmi-Narayan (I had performed Satyanarayan puja for the first time a few days before so it seemed appropriate). I generally try not to ask for things, but this time I did ask for a safe trip, but also that if anything should happen to me, to take care of my husband.

For some reason my eyes went from the Lakshmi Narayan murti to a small brass bell that was next to them. The top of the brass bell was a dancing Ganesh, and even though it is not the temple's Ganesh murti for some reason the thought occurred to my mind that Ma Lakshmi was sending her brother Ganesh with me to be my guardian during my trip. This made/makes me very happy. I am not very lose to Ganesh ji but our relationship has been growing very slowly over the years and I am happy to feel that he is in charge.

I don't know, I know the Goddess is always with me. But maybe in a mystical sense she is sending her brother on ahead of her, while she "stays at home" to look after my husband. I don't know. Maybe that sounds silly, but it feels right.
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I was on the train yesterday. Filled with thoughts of Ganeshji. I think I hear someone singing "Om gam ganapataye nam namaha". But I am not sure because this USA and the train go to small towns. Theres only Americans on the train. I don"t know if I hear it in my heart only. Or if someone is playing Ganeshji mantra. I feel like yelling "Ganapati boppa moriya". But I don't. I turn on my smart phone and play Ganesh aarti real loud. If theres someone on the train who loves Ganeshji I have to let them know how much I love Ganesha. I still don't know if I heard Ganeshji mantra in my heart. Or if someone was playing it out loud.
 
Aupmanyav

Aupmanyav

Be your own guru
Fireside_Hindu said:
I don't know, I know the Goddess is always with me. But maybe in a mystical sense she is sending her brother on ahead of her, while she "stays at home" to look after my husband. I don't know. Maybe that sounds silly, but it feels right.
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Her son. Chant like my wife does:

"Sada Bhavni dāhine, sanmukh rahein Ganesh, pānch dev rakshā karein, Brahmā, Vishnu, Mahesh."
 
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