Ganesh Chaturthi is indeed a special day. The Agnihotri's have a special reason why it is a unique day for the family today. But more about/of it some other time.
Right now let me explain the title of the blog today. Yes, indeed. It refers to the Lord Ganesha. I indeed like the deity despite any agnosticism. I find it very beautiful as well. First and foremost, the idol is beautiful because it symbolises the abundance of knowledge and wisdom in all its features, be it the rotund tummy or the huge ears. Yet another aspect of the Lord's beauty is that it is both `nirakar' (without any definite/pr-empted shape) and sakar (with a given visalisation). Any budding artist using any medium can depict the Lord in any mode, realistic to symbolic, and there he emerges in all his splendour and glory.
He is, moreover, wiser than the wisest. He always finds extremely sensible solutions that are beautiful in their simplicity. Remember how he completed circumambulating the entire universe in a jiffy? His solution was intelligent, wise, loving, and, most importantly, it had no cunning or shrewdness in it.
He is so inclusive, moreover. He celebrates the largest of all the animals (he has the elephant head) and he enjoys the company of the smallest one(the mouse). All of us have been taught the significance of his small eyes (look keenly), his big ears (listen carefully) and his huge stomach(store knowledge). The elephant, anyways, is the most intelligent, sensitive, and caring mammal that eats green despite the huge size. Ganesha, as the etymolgy of the term would suggest, is the chief of the chiefs, all the species, big to small. No wonder, everyone everywhere feels as if he is one of us, like us. Indeed beauty incarnate!
His glory is inscribed in the Atharvashirsha that Aai-Papa made us learn and recite well. It made our speech clean and beatific, like the benediction of the Lord, Ganesh, Gajanan, Ganapati.
pratima@beauty is knowledge, knowledge beauty.
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