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Ganapati variations: the Ganapatyas

Hail to the Lord of Vows, hail to Ganapati, hail to the First Lord, hail unto you, to the Big-Bellied, One-tusked, Obstacle-destroyer, the Son of Shiva, to the Boon-Giver, Hail, hail. Ganesa Upanisad...

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Ganapati variations: the female Ganesa?

I became interested in the female forms of Ganapati after a friend recounted to me a dream in which she encountered a female form of Ganesha. Unfortunately, comparatively little is known about Ganapati...

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Ganapati variations: How many Ganesas?

Ganesa is the ritual, Ganesa is the offering, Ganesa is he who offers into the fire of Ganesa, If a person sees Ganesa in every action, That person becomes Ganesa - Ganesagita Like other South Asian...

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Ganapati variations: Ganesa sorceries

Having spent most of my Ganesa-oriented practice performing long puja with the aim of inter-identification with Ganapati, reading Gudrun Bühneman’s Tantric Forms of Ganesa (DK Printworld, 2008) was...

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Ganapati variations: an eighteenth-century interpretation

“But the obvious forms and ceremonies of a religion are not always to be understood in their obvious sense; but are to be considered as symbolical representations of some hidden meaning, which may be...

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Jottings: On Kubera, wealth and character

I’ve been neglecting enfolding of late, as I’ve been absorbed in other writing projects that have diverted my attention (more of which, another time). It struck me recently though, that one way of...

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