Jai Ganapati Maharaj! 🙏🏻🙏🏻 In Hinduism, the Gaṇas are attendants of Shiva and live on Mount Kailasa. Ganas were narrated in Vedas in the form of assemblies of warriors as is clear from the following sutras of Rigveda , "व्रातं व्रातं गणम् गणम् " ~ Vrātam Vrātam gaṇam gaṇam! Shiva ganas comprise of bhootas, naagas, yakshas, pramathis, pishacas, raksha ganas, vinayakas, guhyakas, manushya and deva gandharvas, vidhyadharas, and siddhas. In the yogic lore, the ganas are all Shiva’s friends. They were the ones who were always around him. Though he had disciples, a wife and many other admirers, his private company was always ganas. Ganas were the ones Shiva was very close with. And you know the story of Ganapati losing his head. When Shiva came and This boy tried to stop him, Shiva took off his head. When Parvati became distraught and asked Shiva to replace the head, he took off the head of some other creature and put it on the child. This other creature is described as an elephant. But what you need to understand is, nobody called him Gajapati (Lord of Elephants). We always called him Ganapati. Hence Ganesha was chosen as the leader of his Ganas!
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