He’s Cool And Collected
The utterly lovable Ganesha has a weakness for laddus. And he loves mango, pomegranate, sugarcane, and banana. He has a massive build and elephant trunk; a calm and cool Ganesha is more feminine than masculine. His simplicity, compassion, benign and soft nature, disinclination to harm anyone, positiveness, and weakness for ornaments are perhaps why he seems to prefer the company of female devotees.
Ganesha has a strange power to inspire artists’ imagination to discover his ever new forms, now in thousands. A mild smile, mischievous, twinkling eyes and a carefree, relaxed disposition defines the popular image of this god. Ganesha is everywhere, a lovable deity.
In the preceding century, during India’s freedom movement, Ganesha was the subtlest instrument of social reform and political awakening. The tradition of holding a week-long country-wide annual celebration invoking Ganesha continues: ‘Let love prevail/Let prevail good and right wisdom, good sense and mutual trust, prosperity and wealth/Make us liberal, considerate and responsible/ Whatever thy name, form, or origin/We love thee as thy name hath associated with it/ Only the good and the right-doing.’
Om Namah Shivay
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