Saluting and invoking Sri Ganesh

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Sri Ganesh, On all your limbs you wear The tinkling bells, Weighty and graceful are Your steps as you dance For Her,

Narrating the state of the world, Rendering with elaborate mudras The many conditional layers Of this universe – Fire and love and light And knowledge, And a total absence of fear, Or self-interest, Are branded and woven In you, Sri Ganesh, Ever since The Constant Origin… Aum. (12-08-11)

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Today Sri Ganesh you appear In your unique and most sacred Role As ambassador and emissary Between men, gods and The Supreme – Who indeed but you Can represent the gods here, And who but you Can convey to them Human needs and entreaties? But who, as well, Is willing and ready To listen to the deeper call

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