Ganesha's Favourite Flowers - Hibiscus

You can offer any flower to Lord Ganesha but Hibiscus is one of the  most favourite of him. Most probably red flowers are fond. You can plant a hibiscus tree in your home garden easily and it will make Lord Ganesha happier than earlier because you are offer your own flowers which was planted because of Ganesha. You did that because of the devotion so it will be more fruitful.

The Chant of Ganesh

Introduction

When most people hear of Tantra, they immediately think of sex. The first popular books on Tantra in English, written by "Arthur Avalon" (Sir Thomas Woodroffe), appeared in England toward the end of the sexually repressive Victorian era. However, even during that period it was considered permissable to openly discuss the sexuality of mysterious, dark-skinned foreigners. Although Avalon's books only briefly discussed sexuality, salons were filled with surprisingly explicit talk about how his books revealed what "those people" did and how they did it, helping to relieve the repression while feeding their myth of racial superiority and the "White Man's Burden".

 In fact, Tantra is no more exclusively about sex than Paganism is exclusively about the Great Rite. Like Western Paganism - from which much of the dominant religion of the West, Christianity, is taken - the roots of Tantra go back a least 5,000-10,000 years. Many Tantric spiritual concepts have been absorbed into the major religions of the area, Hinduism and Buddhism.

 In the U.S. Tantra began to grow in popularity as a result of two things, the birth control pill (and the resulting "sexual revolution") and the influence of Rajneesh (now called Osho) and his students (and their students). The result has been that Rajneesh's version of Tantra, what he called "Neo-Tantra", is now identified with Tantra per se. As Georg Feuerstein noted in his book on Tantra, a Tantric from India might not even recognize what is taught in the U.S. as Tantra as being anything Tantric.

 Traditional Tantra is a complete Pagan spiritual system. Most Eastern mystical concepts can be directly traced to the early Tantrics or what I call "proto-Tantrics", including (hatha) yoga, the chakras, kundalini energy, etc. Indirectly we can trace Kung Fu (and those martial arts derived from it), acupuncture, massage, and even Feng Shui to ancient Tantric practices. Traditional Tantra features gods and goddesses, magical practices, seasonal celebrations, etc. Just as many people in the U.S. have found a home in Paganism from all over the world, I think that Traditional Tantra may eventually hold a place in the supermarket of Paganism, too.

Sound

One of the important magical aspects of Tantra focuses on the impact of sound. In fact, there is a saying that "There is no Tantra without mantra". Six of the major chakras are each seen as lotuses with a certain number of petals. The total number of petals on all the lotuses is fifty, matching the number of letters in the Sanskrit alphabet. Indeed, each petal has a letter assigned to it.

 The alphabet of Sanskrit is called the Devanagari alphabet, and each letter is called a matrika or little goddess. Special letter combinations are considered to be a deity in sound form. Note that I did not say a symbol of or a representation of a diety. Rather, the sound is the deity itself.

 Needless to say, deities are considered powerful. Just saying properly formed sounds, words, or phrases is also considered powerful. Such sounds, words, or phrases are called mantras. Please note that a mantra is not just any ol' words thrown together and repeated.

Mantras

All sound has an effect on the things around it. This is known as resonance. One of the most famous examples of this consists of playing certain notes on a violin near a piano, resulting in some of the piano strings beginning to vibrate and make a sound.

Most words and sounds are simply random. But certain ones, mantras, have great power. They can cause surpirsingly powerful changes in your physical body, the environment around you, your non-physical bodies (or koshas) and the spiritual planes that interpenetrate our world.

The most famous mantra is probably om or aum. It is considered so important that there is a special additional Sanskrit letter, the omkara, to indicate the sound. When repeating longer mantras, you will frequently begin and end with the om. 

 The most popular mantra in India is probably the Gayatri (pronounced "guy-a-tree") mantra. There are many varations of it, but it is little known in the West. Here in the U.S., thanks to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, the "Hare Krishna" mantra is better known. In this article, however, I would like to introduce you to a short mantra you can use, the mantra of Ganesh. 

Ganesh

 Ganesh (sometimes spelled Ganesha, but usually pronounced "gah-nesh") is also known as Ganapati. Being the son of Parvati and Shiva, he is definitely a Tantric deity. One myth is that Shiva (who is the highest teacher or adiguru of Tantra) wouldn't reveal any of the secrets of Tantra to his beloved wife, Parvati. But she discovered a time when he would be weak enough to reveal the secrets...during sex! So as they made love, she would ask him about the spiritual secrets of Tantra and he would reveal them. Ganesh, hidden in the shadows, would write it all down. This is the metaphoric source of the supposed 108 classic books known as "The Tantras".

 In this sense, then, Ganesh has similarities to the gods Mercury or Thoth. He brings writing and knowledge. But he is most often known as the "Breaker of Obstacles". This does not mean that if something blocks your way to success that appealing to Ganesh will result in your thundering through your opposition like some great juggernaut (a word derived from the name of a Hindu deity Jaganath). Rather, Ganesh breaks obstacles by working around them. He may not help you fix a relationship, but He might help you find a new one. He might not get you a raise at work, but you might get a job offer from another company for more money. Ganesh is a warrior, but is not into fighting for fighting's sake. Indeed, that is why he lost his head and it had to be replaced with the head of a elephant. Rather, He helps you find other ways of overcoming obstacles. The real obstacles He breaks are those which prevent you from recognizing alternative solutions.

 Ganesh is very popular, even among mainstream Hindus. Most worship rituals, no matter the deity they are focused toward, usually begin with a call to Ganesh. Most shops will have a statue or painting of the fat, elephant-headed, one-tusked deity near the door. He is one kewl dude.

by Donald Michael Kraig 

 from Circle Magazine Issue #92

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Saman Rattanaram Temple in Thailand

Saman Rattanaram Temple - Thailand

• Thailand is a Therawada Buddhist country. There are Buddhist more than in Sri Lanka. Worshiping Ganesh is also popular in Thailand too. There are several Ganesh temples in Thailand and Saman Rattanaram is one of them. Saman Rattanaram temple is very popular and the most attractive part of this temple is the huge pink coloured statue of Ganesh. You can see it in the above image.

How to reach

• If you travel Bangkok you can visit this temple. This is situated in the city "Chachoengsao". You can browse internet and search more information about this temple. (Saman Rattanaram Temple Chachoengsao)
• It will take about three hours to reach this temple. If you tell this name to a taxi driver, he will take you to this temple. You will be able to travel by bus or train and you can ask about that from the manager of the hotel you are going to stay. Most of Sri Lankans already have had a visit to this temple. There is another place call "Ganesha Park". I will tell you about it later and you can reach Saman Rattanaram Temple within an hour from Ganesha Park.

 Beautiful Place

• Saman Rattanaram Temple is situated in a beautiful place. This is a huge sacred place. There are so many Ganesh and Buddha statues here and the Pink coloured Ganesh statue is the world famous. Most people like to take snap shots near that attractive huge statue. There is a small tree and a pond behind this temple. People give food for the fish in that pond and there are number of stalls.

Receiving Powerful Blessings of Sri Ganesha

Sri Ganesha's Blessings

• When Sri Ganesha is worshiped with faith and devotion, especially on Ganesh Chaturthi, he removes the obstacles from our path and grants us so many spiritual boons. All our karma is destroyed, so that we can proceed smoothly on the spiritual path. There are many different forms of Sri Ganesha, and many ways to worship him. Each type of puja will give slightly different blessings.
• For example, worshiping a silver Ganesha grants us long life. Worshiping a green jade (marakata) Ganesha fulfills our noble wishes and grants us a rich inner life, a divine intellect, wisdom and even moksha. When we worship a jade Ganesha, he takes care of our financial debts. Worshiping a crystal (sphatika) Ganesha is wonderful for enhancing harmony between the wife and husband. All disharmony is removed and one progresses smoothly on the path of peace, devotion, and good spiritual development. The following guidelines will help you to attune with Sri Ganesha and receive his powerful blessings.

Power of Touching Ganesh Statue

Touch and Contact with Ganesh

• Ganesh love to make us touching Ganesh and especially Ganapati like children touching the Ganesh statue. If your child is touching or holding Ganesh statue, never apart him or her from Ganesh. If so Lord Ganesh will hurt. If you scold or blame child Ganesh will be more angry with you. Therefore you should not apart your child from Ganesh.

How to Remove Ganesh Pooja

Remove Ganesh Pooja after half an hour

• Ganesh will be more satisfied by sweet food. We can offer sweet food for Ganesh Pooja. You can mix jaggery with milk rice and offer Ganesh. After offering Pooja worship Ganesh and tell that we prepared that offering to make Ganesh happy. Normally we keep that pooja with Ganesh about few hours but its not good. It is enough to keep it with Ganesh only about 20 or 30 minutes. After 30 minutes you can remove the Pooja and keep it for birds. But never give the pooja for cats and dogs and for that you can keep the dish in a higher place.

Your Religion is Not Important

Religion is Not Important To Worship Ganesh

• Is your religion Catholic, Muslim, Buddhism or another? Whatever is your religion, that is not important to get the blessings of Lord Ganesh. If you are a Good person and you have got good qualities, Ganesh will bless you in everything.
• Lord Ganesh is very very friendly and because of that all the Dewas in heaven like God Ganesh very much. So as you better to know that if you worship Lord Ganesh more than other Dewas, they will never get angry with you. Because they like Ganesh very much.

Secret way of get the assistance of Ganesh

Eight Wishes Pot

1. Keep the Ganesh Statue in the North-East side of your home or living room.
2. Take a red piece of paper and write eight (8) wishes that you want to wish with a black or a gold pen. (you can include the wishes of your family members too). The amount of wishes should not be more or less than eight (8). if there is someone who does not like Ganesh, do not write him/her wish in that paper.
3. Now, put this piece of paper into a clay pot and cover it from a clay cap or anything else.
4. Keep this pot close to the Ganesh statue.
5. Every morning and evening you can light a lamp or incense sticks and remind those eight (8) wishes to Ganesh.
6. For the immediate results, you have to play Ganesh CD anytime.http://sriganeshaa.blogspot.com/2013/05/ganesh-secrets-of-success-5-5.html#links
7. Each and every movement that you have an ability to offer red flower or milk rice and jaggery, you can do those things and make Ganesh happy. 

Ganesh Secrets of Success - (5)

Powerful Mantra CD of Ganesh

• This CD contains the most powerful mantra of Ganesh. This was introduced for Sri Lankans by Master Asiri Wanigaratne. This is very famous in India as well as among all the Ganesh devotees. Ganesh CD can be introduced as the most tuneful music, most sweet singing and most powerful CD in the world. Times music in India has got the copyright of this CD as Divine Chants of Ganesh. There are nine (9) powerful mantras and you will get different kinds of advantages like, wealth, fortune etc. by listening it. It is different from each other, the luck you obtain from each Mantra. I will explain you about this powerful CD later. You will get the blessings of Ganesh easily from this and you can buy this from any Asiri Wanigaratne Feng Shui outlet in Sri Lanka.

Most Powerful Ganesh Yantra

Ganesh Yantra

• This yantra was poduced by the exorcists in Maharashtra, India. This is a very powerful yantra and this contains the power of Lord Ganesh. In Sri Lanka there are Ganesh Yantra which have been powered by Sri Lankan exorcists. Anyone can buy it from Asiri Wanigaratne Feng Shui Centres.

How to Use It

• Keep it in a clean and tidy place in your study room. In examination days put it into your pocket and sit for the exam. You can also put that in your pencil box or your bag. 

Benefits

• To increase the education luck and to write correct answers for the examination. Ganapati will help you for those.

Beef and Pork

• If you use a Ganesh yantra, you must not eat beef and pork. And you should not go to funerals and impure places with this Yantra. 

 

Om Maha Ganapatha Ye Namah:

 

Om Shreem Hreem Gleem Glowm Gum Ganapathaye 

Vara Varatha Sarvajana may Vasamaanaya Swaha...