Wednesday, January 23, 2008

In regard to obstacles…

Ganesha (also known as Ganapati and Vinayaka) is one of the most worshipped deities in the Hindu faith, also extending into Buddhism and beyond India. He is easy identifiable by his elephant head (as you can see in the picture) and is known as the ''Remover of Obstacles'' but also places obstacles in paths of some.

Ganesha is known as "Lord of Obstacles" in a spiritual and material sense. Paul Courtright said that "his task in the divine scheme of things, his dharma, is to place and remove obstacles. It is his particular territory, the reason for his creation." He is also known as the Lord of Intelligence — Buddhi and Ganesha is closely associated, buddhi being a noun that is translated as wisdom or intelligence.

SOURCE: PurplePJs.com

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